Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



on the ground as shining discs, their beauty yet unfaded. 

 Seeds were brought from Chile to this country in 1837. 



The fact that it can withstand little frost has pre- 

 vented its being generally well known, but in a shel- 

 tered warm situation it ranks as one of the chief gems 

 of a garden. 



The Abutilons belong to the family of the mallow 

 Malvacecz and are propagated by cuttings of young 

 wood in autumn. 



PITTOSPORUM. We are on firmer ground as re- 

 gards stamina for our country when we turn to the 

 Pittosporums, for the most part New Zealand shrubs, 

 indeed, often small trees, whose beautiful shining 

 foliage is evergreen, and frequently waxy to the touch. 

 P. eugenoides, for instance, has lovely pale-green leaves 

 with white midrib and white stalks that all feel as 

 though coated with a film of wax; and P. tenuifolium 

 has thin light-green leaves that make an attractive 

 foliage, particularly when the shrub is grown so as to 

 form a hedge, as has been done in at least one 

 Cornish garden ; while in P. undulatum, the leaves 

 have an additional charm in being slightly waved. 

 P. tobira, which, by the way, is a Japanese species, 

 has thicker and darker but also shining waxy leaves 

 that set off to perfection spreading clusters of white 



regular flowers, so solid looking that they, too, might 



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