VARIETY IN SHRUBS 9S 



of a charming villa at Pau, one of those white pavilion-like villas 

 that from their green settings face the whole range of the Lower 

 Pyrenees, and catch the floods of southern smi in winter. I see 

 those lawns and shrubbery-groups and the French gardeners 

 working so expertly among them; for it was here that I first saw 

 Nandina and asked its name of the nearest man. Then again 

 I saw it at Jacksonville, where it flourishes near a fine formal 

 garden on the shore of the St. John's River. And now in reading 

 the newly published volume called A Garden in the Sub-Tropics, 

 by Mary Stout and Madeline Agar, I see its pretty Latin name 

 again as that of a shrub to use near Cairo, Egypt. So does a 

 beautiful growing subject take one around the world, so does 

 an interest in what grows bring to one countless pictures of 

 what one has seen, refreshing memories of beauty and of charm. 

 I have longed to plant Nandina domestica, but a quoi hon in 

 our cold climate? Therefore, I am contenting myself with the 

 thought that when in warmer airs, I shall watch for and enjoy 

 this adorable Japanese plant as unattainable for me, and there- 

 fore all the more precious. 



I append a few paragraphs and the useful chart which follows 

 on the matter of pruning shrubs. 



While after-blooming pruning is applicable to many trees and 

 shrubs, it is not so to all. Not a few subjects may have a poor 

 reputation as flowering plants as a direct result of improper 

 pruning. To prune spring-flowering subjects during late winter 

 would assuredly mean the removal of many flower buds unless 

 the plant flowers on new wood, as do the H. T. roses. Some of 

 the rambler roses will bear cutting-back of both old and new 

 wood and flower freely on the wood that follows, but as a general 

 rule such roses are best treated like raspberry, that is, cleaned 

 free of all wood as soon after flowering as possible, the new 

 growths being left for next season's flowering. Great numbers 



