SCOTTISH GARDENS IN GENERAL 



disappear and concluded that it was unable to 

 endure a northern climate ; but the fact is that, 

 like so many other Chilian plants, both Eucryphia 

 pinnatifolia and the rarer cordifolia take most kindly 

 to cultivation in Scotland and Ireland, though they 

 cannot be kept at Kew. 



In another respect carelessness is even more 

 apparent in the generality of shrubberies. Few 

 gardeners seem to be aware that, in the cultivation 

 of flowering shrubs, there is any need for the 

 pruning knife or secateur, except to keep a gangway 

 on garden paths. But many flowering shrubs need 

 pruning as regularly as roses if they are to do 

 themselves justice. Especially is this the case with 

 those that bloom on the season's growth. These 

 should be carefully gone over immediately after they 

 have flowered, cut back to an eye behind the old 

 flowering shoots and relieved of weakly and crowded 

 growths. Typical examples of shrubs requiring this 

 treatment are Buddleia, Forsythia, the choicer kinds 

 of Philadelphus, Escallonia phillipiana, the hybrid 

 Deutzias, and all the Olearias. Shrubs which flower 

 on two-year-old growth require all weakly or failing 

 growth removed and vigorous growth pinched or 

 shortened. 



Of course there are many species of flowering trees 

 and shrubs which, planted in quantity and growing 

 to a large size, cannot be gone over regularly; but 

 anything choice or rare will amply repay a little 

 intelligent handling. The finer sorts of rhododen- 



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