Specimen Dlmorphanthus mandshuricus which is an Aralla^ I have 



Plants not yet tried in mass cut down, but I mean to do so, as it 

 suckers most freely with us in Herts. The sub-tropical-looking 

 foliage, large heads of flowers, small black fruit, and strange, 

 thorny, rugged limbs when bare, all tend to make an old plant 

 a remarkable object. It is perfectly hardy when dormant, but 

 is liable to be killed by hard late frosts in April. 



Aristotdia Macqui, a native of Chili, is stated in the " Kew 

 Hand List " to be tender and to require a wall, but has grown 

 to be a large healthy bush with us; its flower is a greenish- 

 white, the petioles are bright red, and the wood is a conspicuous 

 reddish-brown. 



Crattegus horrida is very remarkable in Winter, having 

 clusters of thorns at short intervals, which face every way. 

 Cratcegus saligna deserves mention for its bright red twigs 

 like a Lime. 



Crattegus chlorosarca is a novelty which I got from Louis 

 Chenault at Orleans. It has stout limbs, a bold indented foliage, 

 chocolate-coloured varnished wood with large dark purple 

 leaf-buds. 



Crattegus Pyracantha Lelandi, though usually grown as a 

 creeper, forms a valuable evergreen standard, and fruits very 

 freely on a strong soil, the orange berries lasting as long as the 

 birds will let them. 



Ribes alpinum grows in a close compact form with slender 

 grey knotted twigs, and has an appearance after the fall of the 

 leaf quite unlike any other Currant, or indeed any other plant 

 known to me. 



Sambucus pyramidata has the same light grey wood as the 

 common Elder, but its extremely close fastigiated form makes it 



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