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shrub, about four feet high, and spreading wide. It 

 has inconspicuous greenish flowers in spring, with 

 delicious scent ; the stems have an elastic feel about 

 them, which makes it a valuable plant for windy 

 corners, as the wind makes no impression on the 

 shape of the plant. D. cneorum is a lovely little 

 prostrate shrub, with rose-pink flowers in May. 



Ecsal Ionia Escallonia. These are specially 

 seaside shrubs, but they will grow in other places 

 against a wall, and are well worth trying on account 

 of their great beauty; the leaves are small and 

 very glossy, the flowers somewhat like Begonias 

 and very numerous. E. macrantha is the best. 



Euonymus Euonymus. Another evergreen 

 which is specially adapted to the seaside ; it is a 

 neat-growing shrub, with each twig very much 

 like the next one, and does not grow over five feet 

 high, as a rule. There is a pretty golden variety, 

 E. ovata-aurea. They are much used for hedges 

 by the seaside. 



Garrya Garrya elliptica is a very noticeable 

 and effective bush, with grey-green foliage, and 

 long grey catkins in the winter, reaching six or 

 seven feet in height. It is not specially hardy, and 

 should be given a west aspect. 



