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places, for they are among the very finest of flowering 

 deciduous shrubs, blooming, when grown in good soil and 

 divested of the old wood after flowering, from the base 

 to the tip of lo-feet shoots. They are not at all particular 

 as to soil if the ground is dug deeply, and they will even 

 do well on banks of sand. Good modern varieties like 

 Abel Carriere, crimson ; Bouquet Rose, rose and yellow ; 

 Eva Rathke, blood - red ; Looymansii aurea, yellow 

 foliage, and Mont Blanc, white, should be grown. 



The Elaeagnuses embrace some modern evergreen 

 forms, such as glabra variegata. Macrophylla is an ever- 

 green with yellow flowers. The Wild Olives have hand- 

 some berries in the fall. 



Embothrium coccineum is a plant of exceptional 

 beauty, owing to the clusters of vivid scarlet flowers 

 that it bears, and although not new is worthy of a note. 

 It is an evergreen, flowering in May, and thriving in 

 peaty soil if planted in a sheltered place, but it is useless 

 in cold sites. 



The hardy Heaths (Ericas) will not escape attention 

 for the garden because some are wildings. Arborea, 

 cinerea, codonodes (syn. lusitanica), mediterranea, Tet- 

 ralix (Cornish Heather) and vulgaris (syn. Calluna), the 

 common Ling or Heather, are the principal species, but 

 there are several varieties of all of them. 



The Escallonias are beautiful evergreens often grown 

 on walls in cold districts, but thriving in the open in mild 

 places. Macrantha, with crimson, trumpet-shaped flowers, 

 an evergreen, is the best known, but the newer Philip- 

 piana, with white fragrant flowers, quite hardy ; and 

 Langleyense, a hybrid between macrantha and Philip- 

 piana, which produces numerous bunches of rosy carmine 

 flowers, are of more modern interest. Ingrami is a good 

 variety. 



