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to burn in the sun but nearly all the varieties do well in frostless 

 regions. 



Cydonia japonica, Japan Quince, has rich scarlet flowers and is 

 very ornamental. It is widely cultivated at the north and does 

 well with McLaren at Fernandina. There are white, pink and 

 salmon varieties. 



Daphne. Several species of rather small, hardy shrubs with 

 evergreen leaves and fragrant flowers. They do well in light, 

 open, well-drained soils and would probably succeed in the upper 

 half of the state. 



Deutzia. Hardy shrubs with showy white or blush flowers 

 that appear in spring or early summer. Some of them should 

 do well in the northern part of the state and possibly farther 

 south. Pleas says that D. crenata does best with him at Chipley 

 but that D. gracilis nearly fails. 



Duranta plumieri or repens is a rampant, straggling shrub which 

 bears spikes of blue flowers like large forget-me-nots through 

 most of the year. When in bloom there is always hovering over 

 the flowers a swarm of gaudy butterflies as attractive as the 

 blossoms themselves. It is a native of the American Tropics 

 and would probably not be hardy north of the middle of the 

 state. In some cases it bears handsome yellow berries. 



Euphorbia. E. splendens, the Crown of Thorns, with its fleshy, 

 thorny stems and deep red bracts is a favorite pot plant in the 

 north. Here it blooms throughout the year and is hardier than 

 some tropical plants. E. jacquiniflora, Scarlet Plume, is a small 

 shrub with willowy branches and orange scarlet bracts in winter, 

 a very tender plant. 



E. pukherrima, Poinsettia as it is commonly called, is one of 

 the standard ornamentals of South Florida. Here it grows to be 

 a great shrub twelve feet high and under favorable circumstances 

 it becomes a small tree. From November, until as late as March, 

 it bears its great crowns of gorgeous crimson bracts, often four- 

 teen inches across and in the greatest profusion. The stems have 

 a tendency to grow long and straggling and it is better through 

 the summer to pinch out the buds from time to time thus caus- 

 ing them to branch, become stocky and produce more blooms. 

 After the blossoming season is over they should be cut back 



