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flowerer, and soon makes a specimen on a sunny wall. Few 

 recent acquisitions are more attractive. 



Osteomeles anthyllidifolia^ another Chinese evergreen with 

 flowers like a small hawthorn, makes a big wall shrub, but lacks 

 much interest. It is about as attractive as Jamesiay and, for a 

 limited garden, many better things occur to one. 



Osyris I do not find in cultivation, though it is a graceful little 

 shrub. O. alha is a Mediterranean plant with delicate, willowy 

 branches, on which appear white flowers, followed by small red 

 fruits. I have seen it, but never collected it. 



Othonnopsis cheirifolia is a glaucous, evergreen sub-shrub from 

 North Africa, whose charm lies in its handsome foliage. This 

 ragwort is quite hardy on a sunny rockery in the west, and opens 

 its bright yellow daisies during October and November. It is a 

 great grower, and must be cut back hard in late autumn. The 

 clippings, if planted in a corner of the nursery, will soon strike 

 and enable you to supply the county. 



OxycoccuSy the cranberry, will give you its fruit if grown in a 

 sunny marsh. I have the lesser plant, but should like O. macro- 

 carpus y the American, who comes to us by the barrel, and must be 

 a gracious sight when in full fruit. 



Ozothamnus thyrsoides is a successful plant in many Devon 

 gardens, and there is great charm in a fine piece of this handsome 

 and graceful Australian. The foliage is like a rosemary, and the 

 inflorescence, which covers the shrub in late June, a pearly white. 

 The plant is a little tender, and will well repay slight protection 

 in harsh weather. It appreciates sunshine and a light soil. 



My tiniest shrub at present is Pachystima Canbyiy from the 

 mountains of Virginia — a neat, little red-flowered evergreen for a 



