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maritime localities this shrub makes an excellent evergreen, and has been 

 strongly recommended for forming hedges. It is rarely seen in fruit in this 

 country, owing probably to the male plant being more propagated than the 

 female. But in the garden of Mr Charles Hamilton at Hamwood, Co. Meath, 

 where a tree of each sex is grown, the female bears abundant crops of berries 

 containing fertile seeds which spring up about the grounds. It strikes very 

 readily from cuttings of half-ripened wood placed in gentle heat, or of some- 

 what 'harder wood under handlights. There is a tree over 20 ft. high at 

 Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow. 



\ 

 G. LUCIDA, Forster. 



A robust evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 8 or 10 ft. high in Britain. 

 Leaves leathery, thick, glossy, rather pale green, oblong or broadly ovate, 

 4 to 7 ins. long, 2 to 3^ ins. wide ; smooth on both sides, markedly unequal at 

 the base, stalk i to if ins. long. Flowers small, green, in ax.ilary panicles ; 

 female ones without petals. Fruit \ in. long, purple. 



Native of New Zealand, and only hardy in Cornwall and similar localities. 

 At Kew it will not survive permanently even against a wall. It is, therefore, 

 not so useful a shrub as G. littoralis, although from the larger size of its leaves 

 it is a more striking one. Propagated by grafting on littoralis. 



Var. MACROPHYLLA, Hooker fit. (G. macrophylla of gardens), is a larger 

 leaved, more robust form. 



GYMNOCLADUS. LEGUMINOS^:. 



A genus consisting of two deciduous, pod-bearing trees, one native of 

 N. America, the other of China, and most nearly related among hardy 

 trees to Gleditschia. They have doubly pinnate leaves, flowers in racemes 

 or panicles, and large thick pods ; the flowers are regular, being composed 

 of five equal-sized petals, and a tubular, five-lobed calyx, with no 

 indication of the pea-flower shape so common in this family. The 

 American species is perfectly hardy in the south of England, but grows 

 extremely slowly, and rarely flowers. It likes a rich loamy soil. The 

 Chinese tree, G. CHINENSIS, Baillon^ is 40 ft. high, with leaves i to 3 ft. 

 long, each of the pinnae consisting of twenty to twenty-four oblong 

 leaflets, j to ij ins. long, silky beneath. Flowers both perfect and 

 unisexual,! borne on the same tree, in downy racemes. Pod 4. ins. long, 

 ij ins. wide. Native of China, and said by Henry to be rather rare. 

 Introduced to Kew in 1888, but not hardy there, and only likely to 

 succeed in the mildest parts of the kingdom. 



In both species propagation must be effected by means of imported 

 seeds. 



G. CANADENSIS, Lamarck. KENTUCKY COFFEE. 



(G. dioica, Koch.) 



A deciduous tree up to 1 10 ft. high, with a trunk 6 to 10 ft. in girth, usually 

 branching low down, and forming a narrow, rounded head. Branchlets downy 

 when young, light grey, marked by numerous small scars. Leaves up to 3 ft. 

 long and 2 ft. wide ; bipinnate, the two lowest pairs of pinnae being simple 

 leaflets, but the upper ones composed of four to seven pairs of leaflets. The 

 leaflets are ovate, i^ to i\ ins. long (the two lowest pairs considerably larger); 



