The New Zealand Pittosporums are popular and widely Pitto- 

 grown. All are handsome foliage plants. P. Mayi^ with sporums 

 small, polished leaves and maroon-black flowers, has attained anc [ 

 a height of thirty feet at Tregothnan. P. cugenoidcs, with Cordvlines 

 large leaves, bears -great clusters of creamy-yellow, fragrant 

 flowers in the early spring, and of this species there is a varie- 

 gated form. P. Colensoi is one of the most beautiful of 

 evergreens, its habit being light and graceful. P. undulatum 

 is very vigorous in growth, and P. tenuifolium is sometimes 

 used as a hedge-plant. 



The Loquat, Photinia japonica, is of common occurrence, 

 fine specimens often having a height and spread of over fifteen 

 feet. At Enys it flowers annually but has never fruited ; the 

 only case where perfect fruit has been obtained in the county 

 as far as is known, being at Mount Edgcumbe. 



Cordylines, or Dracaenas, as they are more generally called, 

 are a great feature in the landscape, with their fine, arching 

 leaves. C. australls is the common species, and of this there 

 must be many thousands in the county. The large bloom- 

 spikes, often three feet in length and two feet across, are freely 

 produced and very beautiful, being composed of countless small, 

 white flowers, highly perfumed and haunted by insects during 

 the sunny hours. Probably the finest specimen in the county 

 is at Enys. This was raised from seed nearly fifty years ago, 

 and is twenty feet in height with a trunk circumference of six 

 feet at one foot from the ground. A short distance above the 

 ground-level it divides into four sections which are again 

 subdivided into about thirty heads, ten of which have flowered 

 in the same year. C. Banksti is of dwarfer growth than 

 C. australis, rarely exceeding six feet in height, and is generally 



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