EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 83 



The Pyracantha is an elegant shrub, with its 

 clusters of red berries ; and it looks gay during the 

 autumn and winter. 



The Arbutus, or strawberry-tree, is loaded with 

 its strawberries in August, September, and Octo 

 ber. This is a beautiful shrub, placed singly on a 

 lawn, kept to one single clean stem, and a fine 

 branching head. 



Portugal laurels are beautiful : their deep green 

 leaves, and scented feathery flowers, make them an 

 important shrub in all gardens. 



It has been ascertained by a late severe winter, 

 that evergreens are extremely hardy, and will bear 

 any severity of frost. All those evergreens con 

 sidered most tender, such as Portugal laurels, rho 

 dodendrons, &c., were observed to brave the frost 

 unhurt, which were placed in high, unsheltered 

 places, or facing the east and north. It was ob 

 served, also, that those evergreens were destroyed 

 whose aspect was south and west, and which lay 

 in warm and sheltered situations. The cause was 

 this. The shrubs did not suffer which were not 

 subject to alterations of heat and cold ; while 

 those which lay in warm situations, being thawed 

 by the sun s rays during the day, could not endure 

 the sudden chill of returning frost at night. 



Plant your evergreens, therefore, fearlessly in 

 exposed situations ; and care only, in severe win 

 ters, for those which are likely to be thawed and 

 frozen again twice in twenty-four hours. 



Rhododendrons are very beautiful shrubs, and 

 grow into trees, if the soil agrees with them. 

 They love a bog soil. 



The Camellia japonica is considered a green 

 house plant, but it becomes hardy, like the laurel, 



