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to burn in the sun but nearly all the varieties do well in frostless 
regions. 
Cydonia japonica, Japan Quince, has rich scarlet flowers and is 
very ornamental. It is widely cultivated at the north and does 
well with McLaren at Fernandina. There are white, pink and 
salmon varieties. 
Daphne. Several species of rather small, hardy shrubs with 
evergreen leaves and fragrant flowers. They do well in light, 
open, well-drained soils and would probably succeed in the upper 
half of the state. 
Deutzia. Hardy shrubs with showy white or blush flowers 
that appear in spring or early summer. Some of them should 
do well in the northern part of the state and possibly farther 
south. Pleas says that D. crenata does best with him at Chipley 
but that D. gracilis nearly fails. 
Duranta plumieri or repens is arampant, straggling shrub which 
bears spikes of blue flowers like large forget-me-nots through 
most of the year. When in bloom there is always hovering over 
the flowers a swarm of gaudy butterflies as attractive as the 
blossoms themselves. It is a native of the American Tropics 
and would probably not be hardy north of the middle of the 
state. In some cases it bears handsome yellow berries. 
Euphorbia. £. splendens, the Crown of Thorns, with its fleshy, 
thorny stems and deep red bracts is a favorite pot plant in the 
north. Here it blooms throughout the year and is hardier than 
some tropical plants. £. jacquiniflora, Scarlet Plume, is a small 
shrub with willowy branches and orange scarlet bracts in winter, 
a very tender plant. 
E. pulcherrima, Poinsettia as it is commonly called, is one of 
the standard ornamentals of South Florida. Here it grows to be 
a great shrub twelve feet high and under favorable circumstances 
it becomes asmall tree. From November, until as late as March, 
it bears its great crowns of gorgeous crimson bracts, often four- 
teen inches across and in the greatest profusion. The stems have 
a tendency to grow long and straggling and it is better through 
the summer to pinch out the buds from time to time thus caus- 
ing them to branch, become stocky and produce more blooms. 
After the blossoming season is over they should be cut back 
