Some Rarer or More Tender Shrubs 



a moist loam, and can be easily propagated in various 

 ways by seed, cuttings, layers and suckers. It belongs 

 to the Sapindus family, and is allied L to the maples 

 and sycamores. 



Its hardier relative, S. pinnata, often known as 

 "Job's Tears," or " St. Anthony's Nuts," is not so 

 attractive in its flowering time, but makes amends by 

 its distinctive fruit, its round, ivory-white seeds being 

 enclosed in white bladders. Pinnata, the specific name, 

 refers to the fact that the leaves are cut up into leaflets, 

 technically pinnce. It is a native of South Europe. 

 Both species do well in shady corners, flower in the 

 spring, and lose their leaves for the winter. 



COROKEA BUDDLEOIDES. This is also a pleasant, 

 even if not a particularly exciting shrub, that is rather 

 tender, but will flourish out of doors. It produces 

 pale-yellow, orange-centred, star-like flowers among its 

 dark leaves. Its branching is curiously twisted. 

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This list of tjie rarer and more tender shrubs might 

 be indefinitely (-xtended. Before the Great War the 

 introduction of new shrubs into this country was a 

 matter engaging the special attention of florists and 

 plant collectors, while owners both of large and small 

 gardens were beginning to realise the possibilities that 

 lay in this direction. Though a temporary check has 



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