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TREES AND SHRUBSEVERGREEN 



Wood during the summer of 1897, and from material supplied from that 

 source the figure in the Gardeners' Chronicle (I.e. supra] was prepared. 



A native of Chili, attaining a height of 30 ft. or more, the dark 

 persistent foliage sets off to advantage the snowy white flowers : not so 

 hardy as the beautiful Eucryphia pinnatifolia, except in southern or south- 

 western counties a sheltered position is required. 



EUCEYPHIA PINNATIFOLIA, Gay. 



Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. i. p. 337; The Garden, vol. xii. p. 544, col. pi. ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7067 ; Flora and Sylva, vol. i. p. 73, fig. p. 41. 



An exceptionally fine and most interesting shrub or small tree from 

 Chili, very locally distributed, confined, as far as at present known, to the 

 Cordillera of Concepcion, where it forms a small tree about 10 ft. high, 

 called " Nirhe " by the people. 



The flowers in August, produced in immense quantities, are pure white, 

 and in shape and set of the stamens similar to the ordinary St. John's 

 Wort or a Stuartia. 



The stamens are numerous, with long filaments tipped with golden- 

 yellow anthers, red when the flower first expands, a contrast to the pure 

 white perianth ; they persist after the petals have fallen, and in them- 

 selves are very ornamental. 



It will always remain a very choice shrub in this country on account of 

 the difficulty of propagation and an intense objection to transplanting, 

 but when once established no further attention is required. 



EUONYMUS BADICANS, Sieb. & Zucc., FOLIIS VARIEGATIS. 



Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 398 (advt.). 



A very pretty little shrub from Japan, of neat habit, small ovate leaves 

 of a bright green, blotched and margined with silvery white. 



FAGUS OBLIQUA, Mirb. 



Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 563 (Notice of Novelties for the year 1849). 



A handsome evergreen beech of great beauty growing from 30 to 40 ft. 

 in height, and inhabiting Chili and Patagonia, whence it was introduced 

 by William Lobb. 



It is one of the Bobles of the Chilenos, and is of value for a very 

 solid, close-grained, heavy wood. 



According to Sir Joseph Hooker, it occupies only the lower elevations of 

 the mountains, and so cannot be perfectly hardy. 



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