2 9 o TREES AND SHRUBS 



in the open air. This is also true of many localities 

 in the south and west of Ireland, such as Fota, 

 Cork, Bantry, and Tralee, where New Zealand, 

 Japanese, Californian, and many Chilian shrubs are 

 quite happy in the open air. Nearly all visitors to 

 Glengarriff notice the luxuriance of the Fuchsias, 

 which, not being cut down there every winter by 

 severe frosts, assume more or less of a tree-like 

 aspect, and are literally one mass of brilliant coral- 

 red flowers during summer and autumn. But it 

 is even more wonderful to see there growing up 

 the front of the hotels and elsewhere such plants 

 as Maurandya, Lophospermum, Mikania, and Cape 

 Pelargoniums year after year. But, apart from 

 mild climates, aspect has an enormous effect on 

 many climbing shrubs, and especially on light dry 

 soils. Lapageria, for example, prefers a northern 

 exposure, and the same is true of Berberidopsis and 

 in the case of the familiar Fatsia (Aralia) japonica. 

 Many climbers and trailers, again, are hardy on 

 north or north-western walls that are ruined by 

 bright sunshine after frost, which is often ex- 

 perienced on south and especially south-western 

 exposures. Even when climbers like Wistaria, 

 Jasminum nudiflorum, Ceanothus, Cydonia, and many 

 others are perfectly hardy on sunny walls it is often 

 a great advantage to train a few branches over the 

 top of the wall to the shady side, as in these cases 

 there is a week or ten days or more difference in 

 the time of blooming, and so an agreeable succession 

 is obtained. 



