578 GARRYA 



G. elliptica, they have not much value in the majority of gardens, being 

 more or less tender, a,nd with little flower beauty. In the colder parts of 

 our islands all the following will need protection, but in the south of 

 England G. elliptica and G. Thureti are hardy in selected positions. 

 Increased by cuttings of half-woody twigs in gentle heat. The genus 

 was named by Douglas, in honour of Mr Garry of the Hudson's 

 Bay Co., who helped him in his plant-collecting expeditions in Western 

 N. America. Garrya is a somewhat anomalous genus usually placed 

 with the cornels, but by some authorities kept apart in a separate natural 

 order Garryaceae. 



G. ELLIPTICA, Douglas. 

 (Bot. Reg., t. 1686.) 



An evergreen shrub, or even a small tree, of vigorous, rapid growth and 

 bushy habit, growing 6 to 12 ft. high in this country (*6 ft. in the milder 

 parts) ; young wood downy. Leaves oval to roundish ; i^ to 3 ins. long, 

 half, or more than half, as wide ; more or less rounded at each end, the apex 

 terminating in a short, abrupt tip ; dark shining green above, grey-woolly 

 beneath ; margins wavy, but not toothed ; stalk * stout, woolly, in. long. 

 Flowers densely crowded on slender pendent catkins 3 to 6 ins. long in 

 cold districts, but i ft. or more long in warm ones, produced in a cluster 

 towards the end of the shoot and in the leaf-axils near. Bracts silky in the 

 male plant, cup-shaped, 'enclosing the base of the stamens ; in the female 

 plant longer and narrower. Fruit globular-ovoid, silky, with a thin, brittle 

 shell, enclosing two seeds embedded in a dark red juice. 



Native of California and Oregon ; introduced by Douglas in 1828. 

 For Garrya elliptica to be seen at its best, one must visit the gardens of 

 Cornwall, Devon, and similar places. It becomes there 16 ft. high, and 

 as much through, and bears male catkins up to 12 ins. long. It is at its best 

 from November to February, and at that season no evergreen shrub, perhaps, 

 is so attractive as is this when laden with a great crop of silvery grey catkins. 

 Near London, although not so satisfactory as in the south-west, it is an 

 excellent evergreen if a suitable spot be chosen. It does not need a rich 

 soil nor abundant moisture, -and the best possible position for it is a sunny, 

 rather dry bank sloping south or west, and protected by other vegetation 

 on the north and east sides. It is a bad shrub to transplant, and should 

 be grown in a pot until given a permanent place. The male plant, which 

 we figure, is much the more ornamental, the catkins of the female being 

 only i^ to 4 ins. long. Cuttings of both strike root freely if taken in late 

 summer and given a little heat. In cold districts this Garrya will need wall 

 protection. 



G. FREMONTI, Torrey. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, 1881, i, fig. 83.) 



An evergreen shrub up to 12 ft. in height. Leaves leathery, dark glossy 

 green, obovate or oval, i^ to 3 ins. long, tapering* at both ends, with appressed 

 hairs on both surfaces when young, afterwards smooth. Catkins in a terminal 

 cluster, each catkin 2 to 4 ins. long, with grey woolly bracts. Fruits globose, 

 at first hairy, ultimately smooth, J in. wide. 



Native of California, Oregon, etc. A flowering spray is figured in the place 

 cited above, taken from a plant grown in the gardens of Gordon Castle, N.B. 

 From the accompanying note it would appear to have proved hardier there 



