My Garden in Spring 



beauty, Richardia albo-maculata, which is quite hardy here 

 in warm corners, but once caused my herbaceous exhibit 

 to be disqualified at a local show, has along with its near 

 relations the many white transparencies on the leaves that 

 provide its specific name. It has been said that no plain 

 green form is known of Pachysandra terminalis, that strange 

 Euphorbiaceous plant from Japan. So many of the older 

 introductions from that country were garden forms, as 

 witness Anemone japonica, first known as a semi-double 

 red form, then by the white, and it is only lately that the 

 var. hupehensis has arrived, which is clearly the wild rose- 

 coloured form. Again, Rosa rugosa, and from China the 

 Chrysanthemum, all came to us first in garden forms, so 

 that I suspect Pachysandra has been treated in the same 

 way, for I have lately seen the green form in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, and hope it will soon be in this one too. 

 And the figure in Somoku-Dzuzetsu, the Sowerby of Japan, 

 shows no trace of variegation. The variegated form we 

 now possess is an attractive plant with narrow white 

 margins to its leaves. In greenhouse and stove natural 

 marbling is common enough, and I need not make lists of 

 Begonias, Caladiums, &c. 



Variegated leaved shrubs are numerous, and cannot all 

 be squeezed into Tom's silver mine. Cornus varieties 

 number three, and the best is C. siUrica elegantissima, a 

 free grower with large leaves, the major portion of each 

 being white. C. brachypoda variegata is slow to grow tall ; 

 most likely it starts life as a layered shoot, and like all such 

 is loth to shoot up strongly, but a sharp knife and a hard 

 heart and patience are training my specimen in the path 

 of uprightness and it begins to show the whorled char- 

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