TREES AND SHRUBS 



DARWIN'S BARBERRY, Berberis Dartmnu. 



Gardens, lawns, shrubberies. This is an evergreen shrub of extreme beauty, 

 and conspicuous from its ferruginous shoots, by which it is at once recognised. 

 It is an excellent covert plant. Its slender spreading shoots are wreathed in 

 deep orange-coloured blossoms, making a striking contrast with the dark ever- 

 green foliage. April, May ; sometimes again in autumn. 



Flowers deep orange-yellow, in dense erect racemes ; Fruit a berry, purple. 



Leaves simple, oval or oblong, f-1 in. long, obtuse, usually 3 large spiny 

 teeth at the end, and 1 or 2 near middle, very shiny, deep green above, paler 

 beneath, principal veins conspicuous. 



An evergreen shrub, 6-10 ft. or more ; densely branched, spreading ; Shoots 

 ferruginous. 



Introduced from S. Chili, 1847; discovered by Charles Darwin when 

 voyaging in the Beagle. 



CROWBERRY-LEAVED BARBERRY, Berberis empetrifoHa. 



Gardens. Does well in sandy peat, and flourishes on rockeries in a mild 

 climate. It is a little trailing shrub, with stiff spines and pungent 

 leaves. April, May. 



Flowers yellow, in a sub-umbellate terminal cluster of few flowers on 

 slender pedicels ; Fruit a berry. 



Leaves in fascicles of about 7, linear, mucronate, closely revolute. 



An evergreen shrub, 1^-2 ft. ; slender, trailing. 



Introduced from Chili (Strait of Magellan), 1827. 



JAPANESE BARBERRY, Berberis japomca. 



Gardens. This is the earliest to flower in the open ; it likes fairly good 



soil, and is fond of a little shade. February, March. 



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