Some Rarer or More Tender Shrubs 



trees snow-white with blossom, with a cloudless blue 

 sky behind it, it stands in the writer's memory as a 

 revelation of colour. The foliage, by the way, is ever- 

 green, and it is claimed that the shrub is moderately 

 hardy. It belongs to the peculiar family Protacece, 

 which is unrepresented in our British flora, and the 

 discovery of the shrub is credited to George Foster, who 

 sailed the South Seas with Captain Cook towards the 

 end of the eighteenth century, and saw it in Tierra del 

 Fuego. 



Soil and Cultivation. It is rather capricious as to 

 where it will grow, and does not like lime, but it has 

 been known to withstand 33 degrees of frost, and is 

 found as far north as Inverness, and as far East as 

 Norwich, flowering in the open. Some cutting back of 

 the old wood is desirable after flowering. It is pro- 

 pagated by cuttings struck under glass, and it appears 

 to flourish best in a sandy peaty soil. 



THE GREVILLIAS. Relatives of Embothrium, mem- 

 bers of the same family, are the Grevillias, two other 

 desirable shrubs, Gremllia rosmarinifolia , whose foliage 

 reminds one of the rosemary and whose flowers are rosy 

 red, and Gremllia juniperina, with foliage reminiscent 

 of the juniper, and where the flowers are a sulphur 

 yellow ; hence the last named has an alternative and com- 

 mon name, that of G. sulph^lrea. The form of the 



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