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ticiilar, is invaluable from its clothing our woods and di'essed I ever, is not to call attention to the HoUy and the other 

 gronuds in the loveliest of green, enlivened, too, dm'uig the hardy plants referred to, but to urge the claims to gi-eater 

 whiter by multitudes of carmine berries. My pui'pose, how- | attention of a shrub which is not so hardy as they are. 



Gorrya elliptica. 



Garrya elliptica, an evergreen 

 shi'ub which has been many years 

 in this country, is far from being 

 so weU known as it ought to be, 

 most Ukely in consequence of its 

 having been planted out amongst 

 ordinary shrubs, and accordingly 

 suffered in some of those severe 

 winters we have now and then ; 

 but give it a waU, and it wQl make 

 an ample return. A plant here 

 (Linton Park, Kent), growing 

 against a south waU, but m a 

 somewhat confined position, is 

 literally covered with its long 

 drooping bunches of catkins of an 

 agreeable pale green colour, con- 

 trasting weU with the dark green 

 foliage beneath. These bunches 

 are so numerous as in most cases to touch each other and 

 cover the whole space, and then- uses in a stand of flowers 

 need no comment. I have no hesitation in recommendhig the 

 Garrya to all who have a wall not too high, as it is not only 

 ornamental hi winter, but at all seasons its compact growth 

 and amjjle foliage, not unlike that of an overgi-own Evergreen 

 Oak, are great recommendations. Occasionally, also, in favoured 

 locaUties it may flower and thrive well as an ordinary shrub, 

 but in such a position its flowers are generally cut off by the 

 winter's frost; it is, therefore, only when protected by a wall 

 and favoured by a mild winter that we find it in such per- 

 fection as it is to be seen the present season. In some years 

 the catkins, of which I send a cluster of medium size (not 

 selected) for your inspection, have been much larger ; indeed, 

 they win continue to gi-ow after this (.January) , but I never 

 saw the tree more covered with them, and it is to the heavy 

 crop it is loaded with that I attribute their being smaller than 

 usual. 



Adjoining this Gariya, which occupies a sort of buttress 

 some 11 feet high by 6 feet wide, is a plant of Jasminum nudi- 

 florum in beautiful flower at the same time ; the contrast be- 

 tween the two is remarkable. Near the Gan-ya are Edwardsia 

 microphyUa, which seems to be more hardy than the Ganya, 

 Ceanothus paUidus, and C. azureus, both in good form, but 

 unless aided by a wall, I have never been able to make much 

 of the latter two. An attempt to cover a bank with C. azureus 

 in 18.58 and 1859 was so successful, that I was in hopes that it 

 might be converted into a useful beddmg plant, but 1860 put 

 an end to all my expectations. 



I would advise those who have a spare corner agamst a south 

 wall, or other suitable place not akeady devoted to Roses, and 

 who want an object to admire from November till April, to 

 plant Garrya elliptica, and after it is fairly established not to 



