136 EVERGREENS. 



Camellia. Our experience with it leads us to believe 

 that he is correct. 



CEANOTHTJS. 



CEANOTHUS DENTATUS. 



(Toothed Ceanothus.) 



A very interesting shrub from California, with bright 

 blue flowers in stalked heads. Leaves small, deep 

 green, and shining. We know not another plant so 

 well adapted for covering a wall as this. A few months 

 since, we saw some beautiful examples of it in the 

 gardens of her Majesty at Osborne. The plants are 

 trained thus : A leading shoot is carried perpen- 

 dicularly upwards ; the laterals, which it throws out 

 abundantly, are nailed at right angles with the main 

 stem, and at regular distances, one to every joint of the 

 wall. These again throw out numerous shoots, which 

 are kept cut back to within an inch or two of their 

 origin. Quantities of spurs are thus formed, which 

 quickly cover the spaces between the shoots, and 

 nothing can be more beautiful than the evergreen 

 surface which is produced. It is kept trimmed with a 

 pair of shears or large scissors. Nor are the flowers 

 destroyed by this severe pruning, but every spring 

 they seem to vie with the leaves in abundance. So 

 soon as they fade is the proper time to prune. It 

 also grows very rapidly. In three years one small plant 

 covered a space twelve feet high by twenty-four feet 

 wide. 



