Some Rarer or More Tender Shrubs 



easily raised either from the seeds or from cuttings. 

 Though often grown as a wall plant, it will make a good 

 bush in a sheltered quarter. 



It was first brought from the Himalayan regions 

 about 1821. The Chinese equivalent for this Indian 

 species seems likely to be rather hardier. 



CALCEOLARIA VIOLACE^:. Distinctly tender, but par- 

 ticularly charming is the shrub Calceolaria molacece. 

 Of the same family as the foxglove, the Scrophulariacece, 

 its dainty little slipper-like flowers are a delicate mauve 

 tinged with yellow, and in a Cornish garden sheltered 

 by the trees it grew well all through the year, forming 

 a big bush full four feet high and flowering lavishly. 

 In a much more exposed public garden on the edge of 

 the sea-shore it also seemed to thrive. 



ABUTILON VITIFOLIUM. This shrub is often seen 

 and usually described as a creeper, but the fact is that 

 it makes an excellent bush though tending to grow tall 

 (say 15 to 20 feet) and a little straggling. Its evergreen 

 leaves are similar in form to those of the vine, hence 

 its specific name vitifolium. It carries flowers of rare 

 beauty, rather bigger than a five-shilling piece, and either 

 mauve or white according to the variety ; in May, when 

 a pyramid in bloom, it makes a most alluring picture. 



The fragile corollas of the petals fall off whole and lie 



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