944 CHILOPSIS UNEARIS. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



CORIARIA. 



in the mountains of Western China, with 

 grey leaves and stems and clusters of 

 charming pale lavender-blue flowers. It 

 is hardy in warm well-drained nooks of 

 the rock-garden, and is increased by 

 cuttings. 



CHILOPSIS LINEARIS (Flowering 

 Willow). A very pretty flowering shrub 

 from the warmest parts of Texas, and 

 hence only suited to our hottest and best 

 sheltered shore-gardens. Its slender 

 branches of 10 to 20 ft. bear narrow 

 leaves like a willow, and an abundance 

 of handsome lilac trumpet-flowers, i to 

 2 in. long, and continued as long as the 

 warm season lasts. Light rich soil and a 

 hot wall upon the south coast are the con- 

 ditions most likely to suit this choice plant 

 with us. 



CINNAMOMUM CAMPHOEA 

 (Camphor Laurel}. That this beautiful 

 sub-tropical evergreen tree is hardier 

 than often supposed is proved by Mrs. 

 Dugmore, of Parkstone, Dorset, who 

 writes as follows : " The Camphor Tree 

 flourishes here, and is now a fine shrub 

 about 10 ft. high and quite healthy, 

 bearing handsome glossy leaves. It has 

 never been artificially protected, though 

 sheltered by adjacent shrubs, and it has 

 been planted quite 12 or 14 years. The 

 soil is peat with a sub-soil of gravel, 

 the whole well trenched and manured." 

 There is also a fine specimen at Leonards- 

 lee, near Horsham, and probably others 

 in the gardens of Devon and Cornwall. 



CORDYLINE ERYTHRORACHIS. 

 A distinct and beautiful plant, hardy 

 only in the warmest parts of Britain, and 

 then only when of a certain age. It does 

 not form a main stem like most of the 

 Dracaena family, but remains as a bold 

 spreading tuft which sends up graceful 

 arching spikes of ivory-white flowers 

 every year from near the ground to a 

 height of 4 to 6 ft. The leaves are very 

 stout, about 4 ft. long and 3 in. wide, 

 with dark edges and tapering rapidly ; 

 towards the base they become deeply 

 channelled, with the edges rolled inwards 

 until they almost meet as a tube. The 

 plant seeds freely, the seed-vessels being 

 white at first and then blue. It grows 

 freely from seed, but the young plants 

 should be wintered under glass until three 

 or four years old. Botanically it is classed 

 as a form of C. Banksii, but for garden 

 purposes it is quite distinct. North 

 Australia. 



COBJ ARIA. This group now contains 

 two or three new and handsome kinds of 

 greater value than the old plant mentioned 

 on page 510. The peculiarity of these 



shrubs is in the formation of their berry- 

 like fruits. The flowers are small and 

 inconspicuous, with scale-like petals of 

 green, yellow, brown, or pink, and the 

 sexes mostly apart, though found upon the 

 same plant. After flowering, however, 

 the tiny petals thicken and swell into a 

 juicy fruit-like envelope surrounding the 

 seeds, and handsome when brilliantly 

 coloured as in the finer kinds. While 

 these fruits are of tempting appearance, 

 they are all more or less poisonous a 

 fact to be borne in mind by planters. All 

 the kinds are of the easiest culture in 

 moist, loamy soils, the best kinds being 

 hardy (at least, at the root), and growing 

 again if cut down by frost. The follow- 

 ing are in cultivation : 



C. japonica. A handsome shrub with red- 

 brown woody stems 8 or 10 ft. high. The 

 leaves come in opposite pairs, arranged 

 regularly along either side of the stem, while 

 the tiny flowers of a pretty pink or coral-red, 

 appear early in June as racemes of i to 

 3 in. upon the stems of the previous year. 

 The fruits are round and bright red. 



C. nepalensis. A stout rambling shrub of 

 nearly 20 ft., with woody stems bearing 

 three-nerved leaves and axillary clusters of 

 flowers and fruit, which distinguish it at once 

 from C. terminals, with which however it 

 was long confused. The flowers are brown, 

 appearing in May, and followed by black 

 ruits. In the south-west of England and 

 along the south coast, this plant succeeds in 

 the open, but inland it makes little progress. 

 In the variety maxima, the fruits are larger 

 and of a bluish colour. Himalaya, China, 

 and Japan. 



C. ruscifolia is a tall shrubby climber of 

 IO to 20 feet, with square stems and slender 

 arching shoots, covered with fresh green 

 foliage and sprays of tiny green flowers 

 drooping prettily from the leaf-axils. It is 

 hardy even into Scotland, where it dies down 

 like an herbaceous perennial. The flowers 

 come in slender racemes of 6 to 12 in., and 

 towards autumn the tiny green petals swell 

 into juicy fruits, of a rich purple colour in 

 September and October, when this is one of 

 the most striking of wall or border plants. 

 New Zealand. 



C. terminalis. A plant from the Thibetan 

 frontier of China, and quite hardy in the 

 south of Britain at least, making a shrubby 

 root-stock and herbaceous stems of 2 or 3 ft. , 

 which die back each winter. The bark is 

 rough and warty, and the shoots thickly set 

 with pairs of rounded, dull green leaves. The 

 brown and yellow flowers appear in long 

 racemes from the tips of the shoots, differing 

 in this from other kinds, in which they burst 

 from the leaf-axils. These inconspicuous 

 flowers give place to glossy, orange-yellow 

 fruits of great beauty, crowded upon long 

 tapering spikes of 6 to 9 in. These last 



