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but, as it stands in an obscure point of the southern boundary 

 hedge, and is concealed from the walk by pear and other fruit 

 trees, we question if it has been seen in fruit by one in ten 

 thousand of the visitors to the gardens. 



Kageneck/f/ crataegiiides Arb. Brit., p. 9'^^. fig. 657., is 

 a very singular hardy evergreen, which ought to be propa- 

 gated by nurserymen as extensively as the 

 Garrya elliptica mas {^g. 12.), already so 

 strongly recommended in Vol. XL, p. \4;9. 



^ubus micracanthus, R. spectabilis, R. nut- 

 kanus, and R. odorus, all described and figured 

 in the Arboretum Britaitnicum, well deserve to 

 be more extensively cultivated ; and (Spirae^a 

 bella and S. ariaifolia, also described and 

 figured in the Arboretum Britajiniaim, are not 

 less so. 



Escallonm Arb. Brit., p. 993. All the species 

 of this geims are beautiful, and richly deserv- 

 in<x of culture against a wall. The most 

 showy, both for its foliage and its flowers, is E. montevidensis 

 Arb. Brit., p. 993., and our fig. 1 3. 



E. illinita Lindl. {fig. 14.) is a remarkably hardy species, with 

 i)road leaves and white flowers, which lias been described in a 

 foinitr page. South of London, there are few shrubs which 



