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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



Winter Sweet, drawn by H. G. Moon from shoots 

 gathered at Gravetye, New Year's Day, 1895. 



yellow Willow, Dogwood, Thorns, 

 Alders, Birch, and many Aspens 

 and Maples, give fine colour when 

 massed or grouped in any visible 

 way. Still more constant are the 

 flowering shrubs of winter, where in 

 sheltered gardens and warm valleys 

 any attention is given to them 

 Winter Jasmine, Winter Sweet, 

 Winter Honeysuckles, Wych- 

 Hazel, Japan Quince in manyforms, 

 Laurustinus, several Heaths, Ar- 

 butus, at least one variety of 

 Daphne Mezereon, the pale South- 

 ern Clematis (Calycina) happy in 

 our warmer gardens, Eleagnus, the 

 Nepal Barberry, a Chinese Plum 

 (P. Davidiana), and the catkin 

 bearing Garrya and Hazel. The 

 Winter Honeysuckles are a bit 

 slow in some districts, and a better 

 result is got from them on free 

 soils, and from walls in sheltered 

 corners, an immense difference re- 

 sulting if we can have them near 

 the sea, with its always genial in- 

 fluence in favour of things from 

 climates a little warmer than our 

 own. In heavy soils in the inland 

 country and around London the 

 Laurustinus often comes to grief 

 or fails to flower well, but has 

 great beauty in seashore districts, 

 and often on sandy and gravel soils 

 is charming, even in inland places. 

 The hardy and beautiful Winter 

 Jasmine, which is so free on cottage 

 walls and wherever it gets a chance, 

 is most precious, owing to the way 

 it opens in the house especially 

 if gathered in the bud state. If 

 we have it in various aspects, such 

 a contingency as the sun scorching 

 the shoots after a frost and killing 



