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beautiful and interesting. Well selectee] and 

 well 2>laced evergreen shrubs give beauty, 

 shelter and a well furnished appearance and often 

 beautiful Howers in season. Deciduous flowering 

 shrubs, also carefully selected and well placed 

 and planted, give beauty all the year round, for 



too, of Garrya elliptica are lengthening fast and 

 never fail to attract visitors. In an early issue 

 we hope to give an account of some of the more 

 beautiful and interesting evergreen shrubs. 



Of other flowers, which were conspicuous 

 in October, one may mention Epilobium 



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A Goon Typr of OucnAiii) Tree, ^Vill yield abundantly if sprayed. 



many, not conspicuous for their flowers, are 

 beautiful in winter by reason of their brightly 

 coloured sheets, which show up when the leaves 

 fall. Some evergreens flower in October and 

 iCovember, and none is more lovely than our 

 native Strawberry tree, of which there are 

 numerous varieties. A prettier sight it would be 

 hard to find than Arbutus Unedo Croomii, with 

 its large bells, bright red on the sunny side, 

 contrasting well with the shining green leaves. 

 Some of the large bushes of Arbittus are most 

 interesting just now, being fidl of flowers and at 

 the same time carrying a fine crop of fruics 

 formed fronx last year's flowers. The catkins, 



Dodonaei, which, placed high up on a dry part 

 of the rockery, keeps comparatively dwarf and 

 does not spread so rampantly as in richer soil. 

 The flowers are jDink and the leaves of a greyish 

 hue, the bush a.t first glance looking like a Rose- 

 niary with pink flowers. The Polygonums are 

 useful in many ways and over a long season ; 

 three of them flower late in the year and were 

 conspicuous in October — viz., P. vaccinifolium, 

 a trailer which loves a moist place in gritty soil 

 and trails beautifully over a rock throwing up 

 innumerable short spikes of pink flowers ; P. 

 affine really flowers for months, inasmuch as the 

 flower spikes which grow about a foot high 



