34 MY SHRUBS 



they grow too large for me, and a friend, who owns perhaps the best 

 collection of Cratcegm in the West Country, generously makes me 

 free of it. 



Convolvulus CneoruMy from South Europe, is a splendid shrub, 

 and its mound of silver sparkles throughout the year, brightened 

 at flowering time by countless pale blossoms. Coprosma^ on the 

 contrary, I cannot praise. The best, C. Bauerina picturata varie- 

 gatUy is not hardy — what could be with such a name ? — but it 

 makes a handsome pot plant. The hardy species that I know is 

 a mean thing. 



The Dog- woods are worthy shrubs, and I have too few. Cornus 

 Mas argentea is like a little tree of gold in spring before the leaves 

 appear. This cornelian cherry, from Austria, should be in all 

 collections. It fruits occasionally, but one has no desire to rob 

 it twice. The tiny C. canadensis proceeds leisurely in a peat bed. 



Coronilla Ernerus is a hardy evergreen here with fragrant yellow 

 blossoms, while Corokiay from a Maori word meaning " Kia's claw," 

 is a hardy New Zealander, welcomed by colonials of that country 

 as familiar rubbish from their bush. C. cotoneaster is a network 

 of crooked little implicated branches, amid which in spring, shine 

 innumerable yellow stars, followed by occasional dull crimson 

 berries ; while C, Buddleioides has a different habit and will make 

 a larger plant, but the blossom is similar, though of a paler tint. I 

 have, also, C. elliptical whose manners and customs are not as yet 

 declared ; but it looks to be something between the other two. 



Correas are useful and beautiful South Australians. They 

 seem hardy enough here, and make good growth, flowering in 

 spring and onward. Perhaps C. cardinalis is the most showy. 

 Corylopsis paucifloray of the tribe of hamamelis, hangs out tender 



