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surrounded by valleys, 

 from which Inw-Kn'rin. 1 



m 



Cornus Kousa, Buerger [Benthamia japonica, Sieb. & Zucc. ; 

 Cornus mvonica, Koehne).— For many years before the dispersion 

 ot the collections of trees and shrubs in Messrs. Veitch's nursery 

 at Loombe Wood, a fine example of this Japanese cornel used to 

 tiower there charmingly in May and June. Our figure is of a 

 spray cut from this tree. The bracts, four in number, are dis- 

 tinct from those of C. florida and C. Nuttallii in their ovate- 

 lanceolate outline and long acuminate points; they are creamy 

 white, 1 to 11 inches long, ^ to | inch wide. As pointed out 

 above. It differs from the two American species in its coalesced 

 Iruits which, m the aggregate, form a fleshy, strawberry-like 

 mass. Introduced to cultivation originally from Japan, it is a 

 native also of Corea and Central China. It reaches 20 feet or 



height 



Cornus capitata, Wallich {Benthaviia fragifera, Lindl. ; Bot. 

 Mag t. 4641). — At Kew this species can only be kept alive for 



has rarely flowered. There are som 



ery 



South of Ireland. The tree was originally intro- 



mala"v 



Heligan/ Cornwall . Some eight years 



later a plant flowered at Carclew, and upon it was founded the 

 genus Benthamia by Lindley — after George Bentham, then secre- 

 tary of the Eoyal Horticultural Society. Recent botanical opinion 

 has put it back under Cormis, where it was originally placed by 

 Wallich. Trees at Heligan are now over 40 feet high, also in 



jjora liarrymore s garden at 1 ota, near Cork, and probably else- 

 where. They form a short thick trunk, the head of branches 

 much wider than it is high. The bracts subtending each head of 

 flowers are four to six in number and expand in July; they are 

 of a beautiful pale yellow, obovate and li to 2 inches long. 

 Later, the fruits amalgamate into a fleshy, strawberry-li 



1} inches wide, and crimson, giving the trees a secon( 



Itol 



ke mass 



giving the trees a second season 



of beauty — often curtailed, however, by birds, which are fond of 

 the fruits. Mr. Forrest has lately found Cornus cnmiata in 



S.W. China. 



XIX.— THE USES OF CORNUS WOOD. 



W. Dallimore. 



Alt]iouo-Ii tlie importance of Cornus wood is not sufficient to 

 exert a noticeable influence upon the timber market, that of 

 several species is in regular demmid, and the following notes 



s])ecies, whether of shrubby or 



indicate some of iU uses. 



tree-like habit, are tough, and, when split longitudinally, they 

 arp used for hoops of barrels, but it is the species that form 



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