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most desirable of woody plants for California gar- 

 dens. 



When foliage effect is desired, a shrub often 

 planted is the New Zealand Coprosma Baueri, 

 which has the advantage of a pleasant-sounding 

 name. The flowers are inconspicuous and the fea- 

 tures that commend it for culture are its graceful, 

 trailing habit of growth and the rich, glossy hue of 

 the foliage which seems as though varnished. 

 Often its exquisite green is blotched with white or 

 yellow, and a form entirely yellow is met with. 

 The compelling beauty of pure foliage is never bet- 

 ter shown than in this lovely plant as it flows over 

 some boulder-planted slope, or rolls its billowy green 

 in soft masses into house corners or against garden 

 walls. Attractive for its foliage, too, but very dif- 

 ferent, is a native barberry Berberis aquifolium 

 whose holly-like leafage in this holly-less land, is a 

 cheerful sight. In autumn the little shrub is 

 adorned with strings of purple berries, somewhat like 

 chicken grapes, which have suggested the popular 

 name Oregon grape Oregon, because of the plant's 

 abundance in that State, where it has been adopted 

 as the floral emblem of the Commonwealth. A spe- 

 cies of viburnum that is grown to some extent in 

 eastern greenhouses may also be mentioned be- 



