AkAitCARiA. 



ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



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shrub has often been put in exposed places, 

 but it is better where its great leaves will 

 not be torn, and in every size may be used 



alia c/iliiensis. 



in the pleasure ground. Its small white 

 flowers appear in autumn in great panicles. 

 Cuttings of the roots. N. America. 



ARAUCARIA (Monkey- Puzzle}. A 

 noble group of cone-bearing trees, 

 most of them too tender for our winters. 

 A. imbricata is a native of Chili, and 

 the only species which does at all well 

 on high ground. It was killed by 

 thousands in the nurseries and gardens 

 in the severe winter of 1860, and it is 

 no way suitable for the garden, being 

 a forest tree of a climate very different 

 from ours. 



ARAUJIA SERICOFERA. A bold 

 and distinct evergreen climber, not 

 hardy everywhere, but where it suc- 

 ceeds in a southern county flowers, and 

 in late summer bears curious fruits. 

 Syn. Physianthus albens. S'. America. 



ARBUTUS (Strawberry Tree}. Ever- 

 green shrubs of much beauty, both of 

 flower and form of leaf or bush, coming 

 from warmer countries thrive best on 

 our sea-shore or warmer districts. The 

 beautiful A . Unedo grows 20 feet high 

 or more in the coast districts, but inland 

 it is cut down in severe winters. There 

 are varieties of it, one of the best being 

 A. Croomei, which has longer and 

 broader leaves than the common kind. 

 The variety rubra has almost bright 

 scarlet flowers in autumn. S. Europe, 

 and also wild in the south of Ireland. 

 The other species are not so important 



as flowering trees, though good ever- 

 greens where they will face the climate. 

 A. Andrachne, with smooth, ruddy- 

 tinged bark, is hardy in the south and 

 coast districts. It grows wild in 

 Greece, and is a very old tree in gar- 

 dens. The fine Calif ornian Arbutus 

 Menziesii is hardy with us. These 

 shrubs succeed best in a deep light 

 loam, and will thrive on chalky soils 

 much better than many other ever- 

 green shrubs. In the south and west 

 of England, and in Ireland, the fruits 

 are freely borne. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS (Bear-berry}. 

 Mostly trailing alpine evergreen of the 

 Heath order, of which few are in culti- 

 vation. Of this group A. alpina is 

 useful for rocky banks or edging bog- 

 beds. A. Uva-ursi (Bear-berry) is a 

 dwarf evergreen mountain shrub, i foot 

 high, sometimes grown with rock 

 plants. It has small rose flowers in 

 early summer and red berries in 

 autumn. A. alpina, the Black Bear- 

 berry, has trailing stems and white or 

 flesh-coloured flowers. It is abundant 

 in hilly places in Europe and N. 

 America. Grows in any soil, but 

 prefers a moist border or ledge. Divi- 

 sion. A. nitida is a Mexican half- 

 hardy evergreen with shining green 

 leaves and white flowers. The dwarf, 

 much branched A. pungens is also a 

 native of Mexico ; while the shrubby, 

 hardy A. tomentosa comes from N.W. 

 America. 



Arctotis arborescens. 



ARCTOTIS. .Showy half-hardy 

 composites from "the Cape, numbering 



