TREES AND SHRUBS 



BLAGAY'S DAPHNE, Daphne bhgayana. 



Rockeries. March, April. Loves shade and rocky places ; requires stones 

 laid on branches. Propagated by cuttings of side shoots in well-drained pots or 

 pans of sandy peat under bell-glass in temperature of 50°-55°, October or 

 November ; layers in March or April. 



Flowers ivory-white, fragrant, in a dense terminal umbellate chiste?- ; Perianth 

 4-lobed, tubular ; Fruit a drupe. 



Leaves whorled, oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, entire, obtuse, glabrous. j 



A dwarf evergreen shrub, 1 ft. 



Discovered by Count Blagayana in Carniola, 1837; introduced 1872. 



GARLAND FLOWER, Daphne Cneorum. 



Gardens, rockeries. April, May ; again in September. 



Floxvers reddish-pink, sweet-scented, small, in a terminal, sessile, flattened 

 head or umbelliferous cyme, closely surrounded by leaves ; Perianth of 4 ovate 

 lobes, smooth on upper surface, tube thickly covered externally with short, silky, 

 white hairs ; Fruit a drupe, white, globose. 



Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, sessile, entire, mucronate, glabrous, \ in. 

 long, ^ in. broad, thickly set upon young shoots. 



An evergreen trailing shrub, 6-12 ins. 



Native of Europe ; introduced 1752. 



SPURGE LAUREL, Daphne Laureola. 



Copses and hedge banks in stiff soils. January — April. It is useful for 

 growing under trees. 



Flowers yellow-green, faintly fragrant, honeyed, entomophilous, in sub-sessile 



axillary cluste?'s or very short drooping racemes of 3-5 flowers, both bisexual 



and staminate ; bracts conspicuous, oblong, deciduous ; Perianth lobes half the 



length of tube ; Fruit a drupe, oval, bluish-black, \ in. long. 



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