140 EVERGREENS. 



CLIANTHUS. 



CLIANTHUS PUMCEUS. Solander. 



A New Zealand plant of extraordinary beauty. For 

 training against a wall it has no rival. Its handsome 

 pinnate foliage and large racemes of rich scarlet 

 flowers are in the highest degree attractive. The 

 plant is quite hardy in most parts of the country, and 

 should be extensively planted. 



COTONEASTER Medicus. 



COTONEASTER MICROPHYLLA. Wallich. 

 (Small -leaved Cotoneaster.) 



As a rock plant, for covering a wall, or as a single 

 specimen on the lawn, this species is equally valuable. 

 It is also an excellent substitute for box edging, as it 

 bears clipping well. In whatever situation it may be 

 used, it will not fail to excite admiration. An eminent 

 botanist has thus described it : " Its deep glossy 

 foliage, which no cold will impair, is when the plant is 

 in blossom thickly strewed with snow-white flowers, 

 which, reposing on a rich couch of green, have so 

 brilliant an appearance, that a poet would compare them 

 to diamonds lying on a bed of emeralds." Nor does 

 its attractions end here ; it is generally covered with a 

 profusion of scarlet berries, which greatly adds to its 



