Escallonia Jloribunda, or E. 



Montevidensis 

 Escallonia macrantha 



philippiana 



rubra . . The Red Escallonia 



langleyensis = E. macrantha x E. philippiana 



BEST to realise the possibilities of the Escal- 

 lonia, one must see it stretching as long hedges 

 in Ireland and southern England, environed 

 by the moisture and equableness of the sea. There, 

 fringing the roads, its shining close-set foliage makes 

 the most gleaming of trim green lines year in and 

 year out, winter and summer alike, except indeed for 

 an occasional brief spell when it bronzes as it resents 

 the action of some unduly bitter north-east wind. At 

 times, too, the density of its branching gives an 

 Escallonia hedge a r61e of definite usefulness, for it 

 serves as an admirable shield in such places, for 

 instance, as the Scilly Isles, where early spring bulbs 

 by the million must needs be sheltered from the buffet- 

 ing of too strenuous sea-breezes. Farther north and 

 east the use of these shriros as actual hedges is not 



