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grafted on C. sasanqua or other Camellia as a stock. It is 

 a dark-green bushy evergreen shrub, which bears pretty little 

 white myrtle-like flowers, and is not unfrequently met with as 

 a curiosity in our gardens. 



THE LINDEN FAMLIY (Tiliacece). 



A small order of trees and shrubs ; a few, however, are 

 dwarf-growing, herbaceous plants, and while the principal 

 members of the group, are confined to the tropical parts of 

 both hemispheres, some trees are found in northern and tem- 

 perate countries. The principal genera in this order found 

 in our gardens are Sparmannia, Tilia, and Cor chorus. Spar- 

 mannia africana is a well-known old greenhouse shrub, having 

 white flowers and numerous sensitive stamens, partly abortive. 

 When irritated, the stamens of this plant gradually expand, the 

 motion being much more energetic in the sunshine than in the 

 shade, just as in the case of the leaves of the Sensitive plant 

 (Mimosa). It is also curious to note that the sensitive motion 

 is exactly the reverse of the same phenomenon in Berber is ^ 

 where the stamens contract or close in towards the column. 

 Corchorus japonicus is a well-known, golden-flowered, hardy 

 shrub, its double form being especially common in our gardens. 

 C. capsularis is cultivated in the tropics, and furnishes the 

 gunny-fibre of commerce, vast quantities of this material being 

 now manufactured in London. The Linden-tree (Tilia euro- 

 peed] and its fastigiate, cut-leaved, and other ornamental forms 

 are much employed in planting garden scenes, and seem to 

 have been appreciated as a landscape ornament at an early 

 date; and some of the finest avenues in existence, as at 

 Burghley and Hampton Court, are planted with Limes. We 

 have several selected "sports" from the different species of 

 Tilia in cultivation, some of the variegated forms being very 

 handsome. These are best propagated by budding or grafting 

 on their respective green-leaved or normal types. 



THE DAPHNE FAMILY (Thymelacea). 



A small group of shrubs, characterised by their tenacious 

 bark : indeed, in Nepal, the natives prepare a peculiar soft 

 bibulous paper from the bark of Daphne bholua, and D. canna- 

 bina is used for a similar purpose by the Chinese, and the 

 beautiful lace-bark is prepared from Lagetta lintearia. They 



