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15. CoROKiA CoTONEASTER (KoToJcia of the natives). — A 

 low, spreading evergreen shrub, with thickly interlaced 

 small tortuous branches. Two varieties of this curious and 

 highly interesting plant, trained on a south wall — the one 

 about 5 and the other fully 7 feet in height — were unin- 

 jured, and last spring both were thickly clothed with a pro- 

 fusion of small bright yellow flowers. In each of the last 

 four seasons they have borne a few oblong bright red berries, 

 which remained throughout the winter, and may be produced 

 in much greater abundance as the bushes become older. 

 Last winter some plants in the open ground were consider- 

 ably injured, but these sent up numerous young shoots in 

 summer. 



16. Olearia Haastii {Euryhia parvifolia), Mr Julius 

 Haast's arborescent Aster, or Daisy. — A dense growing 

 small tree or large shrub, with rigid ovate leaves, averaging 

 about an inch in length, of a dull somewhat glaucous green 

 on their upper surface and whitish below. A young plant, 

 about 18 inches in height, growing in an open border, was 

 not the least injured. In Hooker's " Handbook of the New 

 Zealand Flora," twenty arborescent and frutescent species of 

 this genus are described, most of which are natives of the 

 Middle Island, where several of them are found at such 

 high altitudes as to ensure their being suitable for our 

 climate ; and apart from the peculiarities of their foliage, 

 their daisy-like flowers would give a novel and interesting 

 appearance to our shrubberies and woodlands. Like their 

 near relation, that old greenhouse favourite the Aster argo- 

 phijUus, or musk-tree, several of them are musk-scented. 

 The timber of the larger growing kinds is hard, beautifully 

 mottled or veined, and used for inlaying and veneering. 



17. Veronica Traversii (W. T. Luke Travers' Speed- 

 well). — A very pretty evergreen shrub, thickly clothed with 

 small, light green, smooth, opposite leaves, which are 

 regularly set in four rows along the branches. A plant 

 about 18 inches high was perfectly uninjured, although 

 several of the more generally known V. decussata of the 

 Falkland Islands were completely killed in its vicinity. 

 These last were from the Island of Eousay, where, as well 

 as in others of the Orkney Isles, this species may be said 

 to have become naturalised, coming up abundantly from 



