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and which are not yet named, but are after the 

 style of L. strong ylophyllum or L. Delavayaniun. 

 Lonicera tragophylla is one of the very finest 

 of the climbing honey-suckles, it is a strong 

 grower, with large foliage, and its big, trumpet- 

 shaped, rich yellow flowers appear towards the 

 latter half of July. Lonicera nitida, on the other 

 hand, is a dwarfish evergreen shrub of neat, 

 upright habit and small shiny leaves ; it was 

 thought by some at one time to be a mountain 



ham still less fruited, so as to its merits in these 

 respects 1 am ignorant. 



Paulownia tomentosa lanata (No. 769), of 

 which the name has been announced in Part III. 

 of " Plantse Wilsonianae," is a rampant grower ; 

 the seed of it was sown here in 1908, and now, in 

 spite of having lost the top shoot each winter, 

 it is a stout tree, over 20 feet high, bearing 

 enormous roundish leaves 18 inches across. The 

 flowers are said to be white instead of the purple 



Photo by] PoTENTI LLA VEITCHII" [Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons 



A beautiful white-flowered shrub growing 3 to 4 feet high, flowering from May to October. 



form of L. pileata, which was an earlier intro- 

 duction of Mr. Wilson's. As these two have 

 nothing externally in common with the climbing 

 plants of this genus, it is difficult to realise that 

 they belong to it. Since they are both quite 

 hardy and strike readily from cuttings, they are 

 likely before many years to become pretty 

 common. 



Meliosma Veitchiorum is a small tree with 

 pinnate leaf, prominent showy buds, and unusual 

 appearance. It has not yet flowered at Alden- 



ones borne by the well-known P. imperialis ; 

 but, of course, it has not yet flowered in Europe, 

 Photinia Davidsonice is a handsome evergreen, 

 of which the young growth is red as in the old 

 and well-known P. serrvlata ; the leaves are 

 smaller than in this last. It is said to be quite 

 hardy, and doubtless would be quite at home in 

 Ireland, but here it was considerably injured 

 even in so mild a winter as that we have just 

 passed through. 



(To be continued.) 



