no MY SHRUBS 



Schizophragma hydrangeMes it has to be written is a good 

 shrub with trusses of flowers like white hydrangea, to which 

 genus this monotype is related. A deciduous climber from Japan, 

 it is handsome and hardy, and will hold to a rough wall or climb 

 a tree-stem without support. 



The shrubby Senecio Gray it is a white-foliaged plant, but 

 tender. Mine perished, and was not renewed. S. rotundifolia 

 has just been introduced from New Zealand, and is said to be 

 reasonably hardy. 



Serissa jcetida, a swamp plant common through the East, well 

 figured in the old " Botanical Magazine " under the name of Lycium 

 japonicutriy has white axillary flowers and a neat habit. It grows 

 with Japanese irises in a bog, and I put a big bell glass over it 

 when unusual cold sets in. Kaempfer regarded the smell of this 

 plant as highly disgusting ; Professor Retzius disagreed with him ; 

 Professor Thunberg sided with the immortal Kaempfer ; and so 

 will you. Professor Retzius must have had a cold in his head when 

 he smelled Serissa. The odour of this Japanese boxthorn is most 

 afflicting. 



Shepherdia argentea is a deciduous North American, which in 

 its home attains to the size of a small tree. The foliage is silver- 

 bright and very beautiful ; the scarlet fruit is edible ; but the 

 Shepherdia being dioecious I never shall taste it. The Americans 

 call this plant the Beef-suet Tree, though the reason I cannot learn. 



Skimmia^froTn Skimmi,a Japanese word that means" poisonous 

 fruit," is a neat evergreen shrub for a shady corner. My plants of 

 S. japonica keep very dwarf, and their white flowers and scarlet 

 fruits are regularly produced. S. Laureola, from Nepaul, has 

 yellow flowers, and is a pretty citron-scented shrub four feet high. 



