TREES AND SHRUBS EVERGREEN 



of Australian plants, formerly much cultivated in glasshouses in this 

 country, although seldom seen in beds or borders. 



Embothrium coccineum is a native of the Straits of Magellan and 

 Tierra del Fuego, introduced through William Lobb, and later by Pearce. 

 There are two forms, one having much brighter-coloured flowers than 

 the other. 



It flowered for the first time in this country at Exeter in May 1853. 



ENKIANTHUS CAMPANULATUS, Nichols. 



Nich. Diet. Gard. vol. i. p. 510; Bot. Mag. t. 7059. 



A native of the northern part of Japan, frequently collected, though in 

 the more southern provinces only known in cultivation, a pretty, quite 

 hardy ericaceous shrub bearing in abundance in the spring of the year 

 small bell- shaped ochreous-red flowers. 



Charles Maries sent it to English gardens. 



ESCALLONIA x LANGLEYENSIS, Hart. Veitch. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 17, fig. p. 15 ; id. 1898, vol. xxiii. p. 11, fig. 4. 



A valuable hybrid raised by Seden at Langley by crossing Escallonia 

 Philippiana with the pollen of the dark variety of E. macrantha known 

 in gardens as sanguined. Perfectly hardy, of semi-scandent habit, 

 in many respects intermediate between the two parents ; the slender 

 elongated branches furnished with small oval leaves of a dark lustrous 

 green, produce along their whole length numerous erect branchlets, each 

 with four to seven bright rose-carmine flowers. 



ESCALLONIA MACEANTHA, Hook. & Arn. 



Bot, Mag. t. 4473 ; Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 371 (Report of Exhibition) ; Fl. des Serres, 



1850, p. 305. 



First made known by Mr. Cuming, and shortly afterwards introduced 

 in a living state through William Lobb, from Chiloe, it flowered in 1848, 

 and, exhibited at the Garden Exhibition of the Horticultural Society 

 held in July of that year, is now one of the most generally planted of the 

 genus. 



As a subject for sea-side planting, few shrubs are more charming or 

 useful, combining beautiful glossy foliage with a profusion of rose-carmine 

 flowers in early spring, and a dense habit of growth ; a valuable subject 

 for hedge-work in warmer spots. 



Along the Cornish coast it may be seen in quantity, and the flowers 

 are sold in the streets of watering-places. 



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