52 MY SHRUBS 



sand. Then you will include no more delightful plant in your 

 collection. Under the name of Spartium monospermum, it appears 

 in the " Botanical Magazine.'* 



Genista humijusa is a pretty little prostrate shrub with bright 

 yellow blossoms, for the choice rockery. 



Ginkgo hiloha may serve for a shrub, as it will not be secured 

 more than a few feet high and is a slow grower. This sacred 

 " maiden-hair tree," from Northern China, is quite hardy, and 

 fruits in France, but not, I think, with us. You shall find nothing 

 like it, for it is a monotypic genus, whose relations belonged to 

 remote geological periods, and only appear in fossil forms to-day. 

 Therefore welcome this survival, who for the absurd sum of two- 

 and-six will join you and add a unique distinction to your garden 

 close. 



Gleditschia^ which sounds like somebody throwing a stone 

 through a pane of glass, soon makes a neat little feathery tree. I 

 have only G. tricanthos^ the honey locust, from the United States ; 

 but it has not flowered or set its beans with me. G. Delavayi is a 

 splendid species from Yunnan now within our reach. 



The Glohularias are neat sub-shrubs from Mediterranean 

 shores. They climb the rockery with great agility, and their blue 

 flowers, like big jasiones, stud the bush pleasantly in summer. 

 Mine is G. vulgaris ; but I have a very tiny variety collected on 

 the hills above Grasse, which I take to be G. minima. It is a mere 

 green carpet on a limestone moraine — smaller even than my 

 treasured Salix serpyllijolia, a willow to its wee catkins, which I 

 collected above Zermatt on wet rocks. 



Gonocalyx pulcher, from New Grenada, would probably stand 

 against a wall here, but I never see or hear of this fine monotypic 



