70 SEASIDE TREES AND SHRUBS 



the Aucuba treated in this way by digging, etc. 

 It is a good shrub for planting under trees in 

 shrubberies. The female plants bear scarlet 

 berries in autumn when males are planted near 

 them. Sometimes the flowers of the male plant 

 ripen their pollen before those of the female are 

 ready to receive it ; it should then be collected 

 with a camel's hair brush, placed upon a piece of 

 dry glass, and covered with another dry piece. 

 When the stigmas of the female look sticky or 

 gummy, then they are ready to receive the 

 pollen. Evergreen; Japan, 1783. There are 

 numerous varieties of both male and female forms. 



Austrian Pine. See Pimts austriaca. . 



Barberry. See Berberis vulgaris. 



Bay, Sweet. See Latims nobilis. 



Beam Tree. See Pyrus Aria. 



Beech. See Fagus. 



Berberis Aquifolium. See Mahonia. 



Berberis vulgaris, Common Barberry. This is 

 sometimes used as a hedge plant and in shrub- 

 beries. It is fairly hardy by the sea. Deciduous ; 

 Britain. There are several very ornamental 

 species of Berberis. 



Betula alba, White, Silver, or Common Birch. 

 A valuable tree for plantations. It is excellent 

 for planting in the exposed parts of enclosures 

 inland, and is also useful for skirting plantations 

 and clumps of trees to nurse more tender subjects. 



