44 Town Gardening. 



very peculiar in appearance, for onr squares and 

 other town gardens. One of the first of the group I 

 noticed permanently out of doors I moved, in the 

 year 1867, from the garden of my friend Major 

 Bailie, on a bank of Lough Strangford, to my own 

 in Dublin, and finding it stand out winters here, I 

 planted it in a border of Merrion-square, where I 

 hope it will long flourish. The only protection it 

 has received has been sometimes drawing its long 

 foliage up together in winter, and tying a soft string 

 round it. 



In summer, 1876, another friend, Fletcher Moore, 

 Esq., gave me a plant of Charlwoodia, or Cordyline 

 Amtmlis, which had been with him for above a year 

 out of doors and uncovered, and has continued so with 

 me ever since. Cuttings strike readily of pieces of 

 the stem, in sandy loam with peat or leaf mould. 



Griselima lucida, or Iitoralis 9 already mentioned, 

 one of a small family allied to Aucubas, has thriven 

 out in Dublin for several years. G. macrophylla is a 

 much showier shrub, but it seems to require shelter 

 in winter in most parts of Ireland, though it has 

 lived, and well, out in favoured places without com- 

 plete covering. It has wintered out at Sir F. 

 Brady's, at Dalkey, not far from Dublin, and else- 

 where. 



Escallonca macrantha, named in honour of a 

 Spanish traveller, is a lovely evergreen shrub, and 

 promises to be valuable in town gardens for foliage 

 as well as flower. There are several kinds of this 



