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coloured bloom. Grows very rapidly, and besides 

 being a very ornamental shrub, it makes excellent 

 undergrowth, and all kinds of game are fond of its 

 berries. Thrives best in a good loam, but succeeds 

 very well in an ordinary soil. 



BERBERIS TEIFURCA. 



Another Chinese species. A very fine plant, with 

 leaves nearly two feet long, composed of about 

 seven pairs of leaflets and a terminal one. They are 

 darker coloured than those of B.japonica, and the 

 spines are stronger and smaller. A noble bush, and 

 probably quite hardy. 



BERBERIS DARWINL Hooker. 



(Darwin's Berberry). 



" Forms an evergreen shrub three to five feet high, 

 of extraordinary beauty." A native of Chiloe and 

 Patagonia. Leaves deep green when old, but with 

 the points of the shoots conspicuously ferruginous in 

 their young state. Although small, about three- 

 quarters of an inch long, the leaves are so thickly 

 placed as to cover the branches. Its deep orange- 

 yellow flowers are in erect racemes. From its recent 

 introduction, little is known of its habits ; but there is 

 no doubt that it is perfectly hardy. 



BERBERIS DULCIS. 

 (Sweet-fruited Berberry.) 

 An interesting bush from South America, with 



