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looking, nettle-like shrub. and its flowers, though 

 profusely borne, are of a dirty mauve colour ; 

 their only merit, and it is a considerable one. is 

 that they come in October when flowering shrubs 

 have a scarcity value. It gets cut back nearly 

 to the ground here even in a mild winter. 



Hydrangea Sargenti also gained for us an 

 award at the great International Exhibition in 

 Chelsea, and Wilson gave me very warm praise of 

 it as seen in its native habitat. Its large, thick 

 velvety leaves and broad flat corymbs of flowers, 

 with the white sterile blooms hanging out clear 

 of the fertile violet ones, give it distinction : hut 

 it is a disappointing plant, and burns terribly in 

 the sun. 



bears no resemblance superficially to our Holly ; 

 the latter is more like it in colour of foliage and in 

 the fact that it is spiny, but the leaves are far 

 narrower and the branches are long. weak, and 

 trailing, as if the plant were disposed to have a 

 prostrate habit. 1 have no information as to the 

 fruits of any of the three. 



A plant for which I secured an award of merit 

 at the It. H. S. two years ago is I tea ilicifolia. 

 As its second name imparts, it bears a decided 

 resemblance to a Holly in its foliage, and Avhen 

 covered with its white flowers it makes a brave 

 show : it is, however, not truly hardy with us. 



Juglans cathayensis. — Of this interesting new 

 walnut tree we have a well-grown vigorous 



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A Chinese tree with lime-like leaves and large white Sower bracts. 



\mong Hollies. Mr. Wilson sent seeds of Ilex 



Pernyi after on,. f his earlier exploratory 

 journeys, an. I our biggest plant is now i or 5 feel 

 high. This c\,mlmccii is not a fast grower, and 

 though anyone would guess al firsl sight from its 



shiny leaves that it was a Holly, it Jg \,.,v dis- 

 tinct from our English species ; it makes a neat, 

 rather formal, pyramid, with weak and rather 

 pendulous branches of uniform size. From the 



same source conic two other Hollies, of which I 

 have only small plants viz.. /. Fargesi ami 

 /. corallina : the former has long, verv narrow 

 riband-like leaves entirely spineless, the colour 

 being dull green, lighter on the underside; it 



specimen, aged about five. Last year it was 



obliging enough to fruit, and we were able to 

 exhibit i! with a bunch of nuts thereon at the 

 Chelsea International Exhibition in May, 1912. 



Ii has long boldly cut pinnate leaves, with dark 

 green oval leaflets ; if it continues to thrive as it 

 has done it should soon make a valuable 

 ornament to the garden. 



Ligustrum Henryiia, I think, the most effective 

 of the Privets of which Mr. Wilson has sent us 

 seeds; it makes a very neat, solid, compact, 

 deciduous shrul) with small dark leaves. There 

 are. however, one or t wo other meritorious plants 

 ol this genus which we owe to his introduction, 



