134 EVERGREENS. 



BUXUS BALEARICA. Willdenow. 

 (Balearic Box.) 



The leaves of this species are three times as large 

 as the common Box, but of a much paler green. It is 

 a native of rocky districts, both in European and 

 Asiatic Turkey, where it grows seventy or eighty feet 

 high. A handsome shrubbery plant. "We have recently 

 received from China two new and distinct species of 

 Buxus. One has long, blunt, narrow leaves ; the other 

 nearly round leaves. Both are handsome, and form 

 pretty, compact shrubs. 



CAMELLIA, Linnceus. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Liwnaws. 

 (Japan or Red single -flowered Camellia.) 



Although this plant is perfectly hardy in many parts 

 of the country, and forms, independently of its blos- 

 soms, a fine evergreen shrub, it is but rarely met 

 with in the open garden. It should be more gene- 

 rally planted. The large deep green leaves have a 

 fine appearance in the shrubbery. There are also 

 many varieties which succeed well as wall plants, yet 

 they are rarely met with except in the greenhouse. 

 In cultivating them in the open air, whether in the 

 shrubbery or against a wall, a northern aspect should 

 be chosen in preference to a southern exposure. In 

 the latter they are excited too early in the year, and 



