Hydrangea clothed to the ground with curving leaves four inches across. 

 The branchlets of its white-flowered bloom-spikes are much less 

 thickly set than those of C. australis^ so that the pannicles are of 

 lighter appearance. Of its variety erythrorachis, with a red 

 mid-rib to the leaf, there is a fine specimen at Trelissick. 

 C. indivisa is a noble foliage plant, often confounded with 

 C. australis, though perfectly distinct. Its leaves are about five 

 feet in length and five inches in breadth, blue-grey in colour, 

 with a mid-rib of bright red. An example at Enys, ten feet in 

 height, is probably the finest in Cornwall. It has only flowered 

 once, as far as can be ascertained, in the British Islands, this 

 being in Tresco Abbey gardens, Isles of Scilly, in the spring 

 of 1895. The dense and pendent flower-spike, blue-black and 

 yellow in colour, is by no means ornamental, and the failure of 

 this cordyline to flower is not to be regretted, since its chief value 

 lies in its foliage. 



No plant is more valuable during the early autumn than 

 Hydrangea Hortensia. In Cornwall it assumes enormous 

 proportions, single bushes attaining a height of eight feet and 

 a diameter of ten feet, while a flower-head has been measured 

 thirty-five inches in circumference. At Menabilly there must 

 be many hundreds planted out in the grounds, and in a wood 

 on the sea-coast near Land's End they are very fine. In many 

 cases the plants produce flowers of a delightful clear-blue colour, 

 but, although numerous reasons have been assigned for this 

 change of tint, such as shade, peat, iron or slate in the soil, all 

 these theories have been disproved by instances where such 

 conditions did not produce blue flowers, and the predisposing 

 cause still remains uncertain. 



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