622 PHILADELPHIA. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. PHILLYRAEA. 



fine habit, refined fragrance, and much 

 freedom of flower, the value of which is as 

 yet hardly shown in our gardens. One of 

 the newest and best is P. purpureo- 

 maculatus quite a distinct break in 

 colour. 



P. LEWISII. From the Pacific coast of 

 N. America, and nearest hirsutus in its 

 hair-fringed leaves. The flowers are a 

 little smaller, scentless, opening at the 

 end of June and early in July. P. califor- 

 nicus is a pretty but rather tender form 

 of this plant. 



P. MEXICANUS. A beautiful plant and 

 nearly evergreen, but tender save in 

 the warmest parts of the south-west of 

 England and Ireland, where it occasionally 

 covers warm walls near the sea to a height 

 of 15 feet. The flowers are large and 

 deeply cupped, of waxy texture, and either 

 creamy- white or faintly flushed with rose. 

 Their strong spicy perfume is agreeable, 

 and unlike that of any other kind. 



P. MICROPHYLLUS. From Colorado, 

 California, and N. Mexico ; hardy with 

 us and richly beautiful in warm soil and 

 a place where its wood is well ripened. 

 The flowers are small and solitary, but 

 freely produced towards the end of June, 

 milk-white, and with a fruity fragrance. 

 It is the tiniest of the genus, rarely reach- 

 ing 3 feet in height, with slender stems and 

 small glossy green leaves the size of Box, 

 and greyish, with hair on the underside. 



P. NORMA. A beautiful garden form of 

 Mock Orange. The flowers, which are 

 borne for some distance along the grace- 

 fully arching shoots, are each fully 2 inches 

 in diameter, and single, except in a few 

 cases where there is a tendency to an 

 increased number of petals. They are of 

 the purest white, with bright yellow 

 anthers. 



P. SATSUMI. From Japan, with freely- 

 branched slender stems of 4 to 6 feet, long 

 narrow leaves, and rather small pure white 

 flowers, in pairs or loosely clustered. 



HYBRID KINDS. 



P. AVALANCHE. Flowers large with a 

 pleasing odour, and so numerous that the 

 branches are weighed down with them. 



P. BOULE D' ARGENT. A dwarf spread- 

 ing plant with double flowers and very 

 fragrant. 



P. BOUQUET BLANC. Pure white double 

 flowers borne in profusion. 



P. CANDELABRE. A dwarf - growing 

 form, with flowers larger than those of 

 P. Lemoinei, and with undulated petals. 

 Very pretty in the rock garden. 



P. CONQUETE. A free-flowering form, 

 whose branches arch over with the weight 

 of blossoms. These, which are large and 

 double, have almost a Tulip shape, and 

 are fragrant. 



P. FANTAISIE. From the seed-bearing 

 parent this inherited a slight pink tinge 



towards the centre of the flower, and for 

 hybridising it has proved to be valuable. 



P. GERBE DE NEIGE. Pure white 

 single flowers nearly a couple of inches in 

 diameter and prettily cup-shaped. 



P. MANTEAU D'HERMINE. A general 

 favourite which forms a compact specimen 

 thickly clothed, when at its best, with 

 double creamy-white blossoms. 



P. MONT BLANC. This, which reaches 

 a height of 4 to 5 feet, is of rather 

 upright growth, with large, sweet-scented 

 flowers. 



P. NUEE BLANCHE. This has large 

 shining green leaves, and regularly shaped 

 round blossoms, deeply cupped. 



P. PERLE BLANCHE. The finest double 

 Philadelphus, with very large flowers of 

 the purest white, and borne in great 

 profusion. 



P. PURPUREO-MACULATUS. This was 

 given a first-class certificate by the 

 R.H.S., which was well deserved, not only 

 for its merit, but also for the possibilities 

 it opened up of quite a new race of these 

 beautiful shrubs, whose blossoms hitherto 

 have been white, or nearly so, whereas 

 those of the newcomer have on each petal 

 a distinct blotch of purple-rose. 



ROSACE. This bears large double 

 flowers, consisting of two or three rows 

 of petals, at first creamy-white, but after 

 expansion becoming pure white. 



PHILESIA (Pepino).P. buxifolia 

 is an exquisite dwarf shrub, with 

 large carmine-red Lapageria-like bells 

 (2 inches long) nestling among and 

 suffusing with their rich colour the 

 sombre evergreen foliage. It is a 

 precious shrub for the cooler parts of 

 the rock garden and succeeds admir- 

 ably in the more favourable coast 

 gardens, and in moist peat or turfy 

 loam. At Abbotsford it is in specimen 

 form 2 feet high and 6 feet across, 

 and flowers profusely all the summer. 

 May be increased by suckers from the 

 base, but in a plant of such slow 

 growth these should only be removed 

 from strong and well-established roots. 

 S. America. 



PHILLYRAEA (Jasmine Box). 

 Distinct shrubs from the south of 

 Europe, at one time among our best 

 evergreens in the south. Farther 

 north they are tender in hard winters. 

 The newest kind, and the hardiest 

 and best, is Vilmorin's Jasmine Box 

 (P. decora), with laurel-like leaves and 

 fragrant white flowers in early spring. 

 Coming from the mountains of Asia 

 Minor, this will withstand severe frost, 

 is free from insects and disease, and 

 quite at home in town gardens. The 

 flowers are sometimes fo lowed by 



