306 TREES AND SHRUBS 



greenhouse plants often grow and thrive luxuriantly 

 in the open air. This is also true of many localities 

 in the south and west of Ireland, such as Fota, 

 Cork, Bantry, and Tralee, where New Zealand, 

 Japanese, California!!, and many Chilian shrubs are 

 quite happy in the open air. Nearly all visitors to 

 Glengarriff notice the luxuriance of the Fuchsias, 

 which, not being cut down there every winter by 

 severe frosts, assume more or less of a tree-like 

 aspect, and are literally one mass of brilliant coral- 

 red flowers during summer and autumn. But it 

 is even more wonderful to see there growing up 

 the front of the hotels and elsewhere such plants 

 as Maurandya, Lophospermum, Mikanta, and Cape 

 Pelargoniums year after year. But, apart from 

 mild climates, aspect has an enormous effect on 

 many climbing shrubs, and especially on light dry 

 soils. Lapageria, for example, prefers a northern ex- 

 posure, and the same is true of Berberidopsis corallina^ 

 and the remarkable Mutisia decurrens. Many climbers 

 and trailers, again, are hardy on north or north- 

 western walls that are ruined by bright sunshine 

 after frost, which is often experienced on south and 

 especially south - western exposures. Even when 

 climbers like Wistaria, Jasminum nudiflorum, Ceanothus, 

 Pyrus and many others are perfectly hardy on sunny 

 walls it is often a great advantage to train a few 

 branches over the top of the wall to the shady side, 

 as in these cases there is a week or ten days or more 

 difference in the time of blooming, and so an agree- 

 able succession is obtained. 



