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extreme cold is concerned, as is shown by its perfect health and robustness 

 in the neighbourhood of Boston, Mass., it has never become generally 

 cultivated in Britain. Through its susceptibility to spring frosts and the 

 indifferent ripening of its wood in autumn, it is rarely seen in good health. 

 It thrives. very well in the garden at Grayswood Hill, Haslemere, which, 

 being elevated a few hundred feet, escapes the late frosts that visit the 

 valleys. After a fine summer its leaves change to glorious shades of red 

 and crimson. 



Var. PENDULA. Branches rather stiffly pendulous. 



Var. RUBRA (Bot. Mag., t. 8315). : Bracts of a bright rosy red instead of 

 the ordinary white ; extremely beautiful. This variety succeeds even better 

 than the type at Grayswood Hill. 



C. GLABRATA, Bentham. WESTERN CORNEL. 



A deciduous shrub up to 10 or 12 ft. high, of bushy, densely twiggy habit ; 

 young shoots dark, smooth. Leaves lanceolate, or narrowly oval, tapered at 

 both ends ; ij to 3 ins. long, \ to ij ins. wide ; glossy green on both sides, 

 and with minute, closely pressed hairs ; slightly paler beneath ; veins in three 

 to five pairs ; stalk slender, -^ to \ in. long. Flowers dull white, in small cymes 

 which are i J ins. or less in diameter. Fruit white or bluish white. 



Native of Western N. America from Oregon to California. It has little 

 beauty of flower, but is a neat-habited shrub of cheerful aspect, distinct in its 

 small, abundant leaves, shining green on both sides. 



C HESSEI, Koehne. 



A dwarf, very compact, slow-growing, deciduous shrub ; dense in habit and 

 apparently not likely to exceed 2 ft. in height. Leaves opposite, crowded, 

 oval-lanceolate, wedge-shaped at the base, slender pointed ; I to 2^ in. long, 

 about one-third as wide ; very dark, almost black-green above, glaucous 

 beneath, both surfaces with flattened hairs ; veins in three to five pairs 

 Flowers pinkish white, produced the summer through in cymes i^ ins. across. 

 Fruit dingy bluish white, flattened globose, scarcely ^ in. wide. 



The native country of this very distinct little shrub does not appear to be 

 known, but it is probably from N.E. Asia. It is quite unlike any other cornel 

 in its dense, very leafy, compact habit and curiously dark foliage. 



C. KOUSA, Buerger. 



(Garden, Feb. 25, 1893 ; Benthamia japonica, Siebold.') 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 20 ft. in height, of bushy habit; 

 young shoots smooth. Leaves ovate with a slender point and wedge-shaped 

 base, 1 1 to 3 ins. long, f to if ins. wide ; margin undulated ; both surfaces 

 have minute, scattered hairs at first, becoming smooth except for brown tufts in 

 the vein-axils, stalk ^ to ^ in. long. Flowers small and inconspicuous, pro- 

 duced in a round, button-like mass f in. across. The beauty of the shrub, as in 

 C. florida and C. Nuttallii, is in the bracts that accompany the inflorescence. 

 These are four in number, lanceolate, slender-pointed, spreading ; I to i^ ins. 

 long, ^ to | in. wide ; creamy white. The main-stalk is slender, smooth, 2 to 

 2^ ins. long. Fruit fleshy, strawberry-like in shape. 



Native of Japan, Corea, and Central China. At Coombe Wood, where there 

 is a fine specimen, it thrives admirably, and flowers freely in May and June. 

 The bracts and flowers are borne on short, lateral spurs at the end of a small two- 

 or four-leaved twig and stand up erect in rows along the branches ; they have 



