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Stand anywhere provided the soil be fairly moist. My plant thrives 

 in peat, though peat is not essential. It sets three-celled seed-pots, 

 but does not bring them to full size and ripeness here. 



Xanthorhiza apifolia is another hardy monotype from North 

 America. This little deciduous shrub has light pinnate foliage 

 and racemes of very minute dark florets which appear in early 

 spring. It is worth a corner in a rockery, for the growth is modest 

 and it will always remain a dwarf. 



Of Xylomelum, the Wood Apple, I have had the wooden, 

 pear-shaped fruits brought to me from Australia, and striven to 

 germinate the seeds, but failed to do so. This is a bush shrub, or 

 tree, of the Protea order, probably not in cultivation. 



Xylosteum Philomilce is an evergreen fly honeysuckle, with pink 

 flowers in early Spring. 



With Zanthoxylum we approach an end. This genus, known 

 as the Prickly Ash, or Toothache Tree, is a large one represented 

 over most of the world. Whether the evergreen prickly and aromatic 

 leaves of my plant — Z, planispermum — or its little clusters of red 

 carpels in winter, or the bark of the shrub, are good against 

 toothache, I cannot find. It flags under frost, but soon pulls itself 

 together again when the cold has passed. This most handsome 

 foliage plant prospers in half shade. 



Zauschneria calijornica, the Calif ornian Hummingbird's Trumpet, 

 may be called a sub-shrub, though its habit is herbaceous. The 

 downy, grey foliage and scarlet tubular flowers make a fine mass 

 on the sunny rockery. I cut my plants back hard in autumn, and 

 they break again, travel underground, and rapidly increase. 



Zenobia, so called after the great Empress — a noble name really 

 worth keeping — is now lost, and the shrub, so well worthy to bear 



