580 GARRYA GAULTHERIA 



Introduced from Mexico in 1846. This species can be grown on a wall 

 near London, but in Guernsey it makes a small tree of very striking aspect. 

 It is one of the largest leaved evergreens that can be grown in the open air. 

 Flowers in May and June, but has no attractions apart from its striking foliage. 

 This shrub is frequently met with as G. Fadyeni, a quite different species with 

 much smaller leaves, found in the West Indies, and not hardy. 



G. THURETI, Carriere. 



A quick-growing, robust evergreen up to 15 ft. high; branchlets stout, 

 downy. Leaves narrow-oblong ; 2J- to 4 ins. long, i to I \ ins. wide ; tapering 

 equally to both ends, the apex ending in a short, abrupt tip ; upper surface 

 becoming smooth and glossy, lower one covered with a greyish down ; stalk 

 j> in. long. Catkins more or less erect, greyish, terminal and axillary, i-| to 3 

 fns. long, with the bracts in pairs at \ in. apart, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, and 

 very hairy. 



A hybrid raised about 1862 at Antibes by M. Gustave Thuret, who crossed 

 G. Fadyeni with the pollen of G. elliptica. This shrub is interesting, but of 

 little ornament. At Kew it is 12 ft. high, and as hardy as the pollen parent. 

 Where the winters are not severe it forms a large, vigorous bush, but is dis- 

 figured by exceptionally severe frost. It blossoms in June. 



GAULTHERIA. ERICACE^. 



An extensive genus of evergreen shrubs, most abundant in America ; 

 found also in the Himalaya, China, Malay Archipelago, and Australasia, 

 but absent from Europe. The few species cultivated out-of-doors in Britain 

 are shrubs of tufted habit, spreading by means of underground suckers. 

 Leaves alternate. Corolla of the pitcher- or bell-shape characteristic of 

 the heaths and their allies; calyx five-lobed or toothed, persistent, 

 becoming in many species fleshy and coloured like the fruit to which 

 it adheres. Stamens ten. Fruit consisting of five cells, many-seeded, 

 juicy. 



The Gaultherias are peat, moisture, and often shade loving plants. 

 The best of them in gardens is G. Shallon, which, planted in shady spots 

 and not disturbed, will make very luxuriant and handsome low thickets 

 of great density. It will grow quite well in ordinary soil. The generic 

 name commemorates Dr Gaulthier, an eighteenth-century botanist and 

 physician of Canada. 



G. NUMMULARIOIDES, G. Don. 



A dwarf evergreen shrub, 4 to 6 ins. high, forming dense tufts, and spreading 

 by underground shoots ; stems slender and wiry, covered with bristles, and 

 bearing over their whole length leaves \ in. apart in two opposite rows. Leaves 

 leathery, heart-shaped, becoming smaller towards the tip of the shoot ; J to 

 in. long, about the sam wide ; the lower surface and the margins are bristly ; the 

 upper side is dark dull green and wrinkled, the lower one very pale polished 

 green ; stalk \ in. or less long. Flowers produced singly in the leaf-axils from 

 the under-side during August ; -corolla egg-shaped, white or tinged with pink, 

 scarcely \ in. long. 



Native of the Himalaya ; long cultivated, but still rare in. gardens. It 

 makes charming dense tufts of foliage and stems, but needs some shelter. At 



