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the Dutch call it Mezereon. Parkinson calls it Dwarf Bay 

 or flowering Spurge.' 



Of the early flowering berberises, Berberis japonica 

 var. Bealii, is worth growing, however limited the space 

 may be. Its large handsome leaves, standing out almost 

 like rays, and the lily-of-the- valley-like scent of its racemes 

 of yellowish white, make this a most attractive bush. The 

 flowers are followed by grape-like fruits, which remain 

 on till late summer. B. japonica has shorter racemes of 

 flowers, and is not nearly so attractive. Clematis cirrhosa 

 is a winter-flowering climber for every garden, doing well 

 either on pillars or walls, and producing its lovely swing- 

 ing cups of pale green flowers in the coldest and shortest 

 days of the year. Though impervious to severe cold this 

 clematis abhors cutting winds, and should be planted 

 where it is protected from them. C. cirrhosa is a native of 

 Spain, where it was observed by Clusius in 1565. Gerard, 

 who had it in his Holborn garden in 1596, called it 

 * Traveller's joy of Candia ' ; Johnson, in his enlarged 

 edition of Gerard's Herball, called it ' Spanish Traveller's 

 Joy,' and Parkinson, ' Spanish wild Climber.' Viburnum 

 fragrans opens its richly scented, wax-like, pinkish cymes 

 sometimes as early as November, and this shrub should 

 find a place in every scented garden for its interesting 

 associations. The late Mr. R. Farrer, who discovered it, 

 says it was grown ' all over Northern China ; old speci- 

 mens are seen in almost every palace or temple yard, and 

 its loveliness and fragrance carried it to Pekin, where it 

 was among the most prized specimens in the Imperial 

 Gardens until the death of the Dowager Empress, and 

 after the fall of the Dynasty only was it allowed out at 

 last into the eager hands of the common cultivator.' Mr. 

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