Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



strain and boil again till stiff, then " as it cooleth p 

 thereto a little Rose water and a few grains of Mu 

 mingled together, which will give a goodly taste to t 

 Cotiniat. This is the way to make Marmelade," Sc 

 Gerard in Queen Elizabeth's day. 



The gay Japanese Quince, " Japonica," has or 

 been known about a century. Sir Joseph Banks, t 

 botanist, found it in Japan in 1796 when he \\ 

 making a voyage round the world with the renown 

 Captain Cook, and it was first figured in the Botanu 

 Magazine of 1803. The Japanese name for it 

 Alsuma Kaido, or Bukd. Most common as a creef 

 " which must have been designed by the Creator's s 

 to wander across a mullioned window or to cling abc 

 a Jacobean door," * it is perhaps even more attracti 

 a shrub set in isolation on a lawn in free developme: 

 Its gaiety begins in the very dead of the year alwa 

 supposing that it is in a sunny, moderately shelter 

 spot for in January its buds are just beginning 

 unfold into rose-scarlet blossoms, whose brilliancy 

 enhanced by a close ring of half a hundred yell< 

 stamens. Since the leaves are not yet putting in 

 appearance, late February days often see a blaze 

 colour visible from afar, all the more attractive in tl 

 there is no background of green to dilute the viv 

 ness. This brilliant blossoming in early spring da] 



* Hubert Bland, " With the Eyes of a Man." 

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