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JUSSLSSA. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. KIRENGESHOMA. 



Junipers, which for size are perhaps not 

 excelled in Britain. The soil is loam 

 and peat resting on shaly slate rock the 

 situation is shady and with a northern 

 aspect, which seems to suit this species. 



J. RIGIDA (Mount Hakone Jumper). 

 A graceful and picturesque kind with 

 free and often drooping habit, and in S. 

 England at least vigorous and hardy, 

 assuming in autumn and winter a pleasant 

 bronzy hue of green. It has not been 

 long enough in cultivation to judge of 

 its stature or permanent habit and value 

 in Britain, but it promises well. Japan. 



J. SABINA (Savin). A hardy and plumy 

 bush of the mountains of Europe, few 

 evergreen shrubs being more beautiful. 

 In the garden at Goddendene, near 

 Bromley, a dwarf form is very prettily 

 used as a lawn plant. Among the varie- 

 ties of the Savin the most useful forms 

 are /. prostrata and /. tamariscifolia 

 variegated ones, as usual, being ugly and 

 useless. 



J. THURIFERA (Frankincense Juniper). 

 A small distinct tree, in its native country 

 attaining a height of 40 feet. As a lawn 

 tree it is attractive, and from its dense 

 conical shape associates well with trees 

 of the same race, and is very hardy. 

 Spain and Portugal. 



J. VIRGINIANA (Red Cedar). A grace- 

 ful, hardy tree on the hills and mountains 

 of N.E. America, giving somewhat of the 

 effect of the Eastern Cypress in Italy, and 

 in Britain one of the hardiest and most 

 graceful except evergreen trees. This 

 tree, like many Conifers that have been 

 much grown, has had its forms and 

 varieties propagated, few of them being 

 better than, if as good as, the common 

 kind, except, perhaps, the silvery forms, 

 which sometimes occur among plants 

 raised from seed, as they should always 

 be. Garden varieties must- be grafted, as 

 if raised from seed most of these would 

 revert to the wild form. 



Dwarf Junipers for the rock garden : 

 Small forms of the northern Junipers are 

 used on rock gardens with good effect, as 

 giving on a small scale the form of the 

 alpine Conifers. Among these are /. nana 

 and Echniceformis, and other dwarf forms. 



JUSSLEA NATANS. A curious 

 aquatic plant that bears large yellow 

 blossoms a few inches above the surface 

 of the water. It is a valuable plant 

 for a pool or small lake, and hardy. 



KADSURA JAPONICA. A climbing 

 evergreen of Japan, belonging to the 

 Magnolia family, bearing scarlet berries 

 in clusters. So far as known, it should 

 be tried on a wall. 



KALMIA (Mountain Laurel). The 

 Kalmias are among the most beautiful 

 of N. American shrubs, evergreen in 



foliage and charming in flower. Like 

 the Rhododendron and Azalea, Kal- 

 mias must be grown in a moist, peaty 

 soil, or one light or sandy. They will 

 not thrive in stiff or chalky soils. 

 Their lovely clusters of pink wax-like 

 flowers open about the end of June, 

 when the bloom of the Rhododendron 

 and Azalea is on the wane, and last 

 for a fortnight or longer. There 

 are varieties of the common kind 

 having, in some cases, larger flowers, 

 and in others flowers of a deeper 

 colour, the finest being maxima, which 

 is much superior in size of flower 

 and richness of tint. The Myrtle- 

 leaved Kalmia ( K. myrtifolia] seems 

 to be only a variety of K. latifolia, 

 with smaller Myrtle-like foliage. The 

 growth is dwarf and compact, and the 

 flowers are almost as large as those of 

 K. latifolia. The other species of 

 Kalmia, though very beautiful, are of 

 less value, because they are smaller, 

 more delicate, and less showy, but in 

 peat - soil gardens they should be 

 grown. K. angustifolia grows about 

 1 1 feet high, and bears in early June 

 dense clusters of rosy-pink flowers. 

 K. glauca and K. hirsuta are also 

 pretty shrubs, K. glauca flowering in 

 early summer, and K. hirsuta in 

 August. 



KERNERA SAXATILIS. A neat 

 little plant forming a compact tuft of 

 foliage, and in early summer a dense 

 mass of tiny white blooms. It grows 

 in any soil in an open position in the 

 rock garden, where it is an attractive 

 plant in spring, and may be freely 

 propagated by seeds. Europe. 



KERRIA (Jew's Mallow) . The 

 double variety of this Japanese shrub, 

 K. japonica, is an old favourite in 

 cottage gardens. The large yellow 

 rosette flowers are more showy than 

 those of the single kind, which is a 

 pretty shrub. Though usually planted 

 against walls, the Kerria is hardy, and 

 may be grown as a bush except in the 

 coldest parts. 



KETELEEREA FORTUNEI. A 

 Chinese evergreen tree, said to attain 

 100 feet in its own country. It thrives 

 in N. Italy, and may be worth trying 

 in our country in the southern counties. 



KIRENGESHOMA PALMATA. A 



vigorous, hardy, herbaceous plant from 

 the mountains of Japan, with dark 

 stems of about 3 feet high, bearing 

 thin hairy leaves shaped like those of 

 a Sycamore, and clusters of long droop- 



