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New hardy Trees and Shrubs 



but, as it stands in an obscure point of the southern boundary 

 hedge, and is concealed from the walk by pear and other fruit 

 trees, we question if it has been seen in fruit by one in ten 

 thousand of the visitors to the gardens. 



Kageneck/fl- crataegoides Arb. Brit., p. 934. fig. 657., is 

 a very singular hardy evergreen, which ought to be propa- 

 gated by nurserymen as extensively as the 

 Garrya elliptica mas {^g> 12,), already so 

 strongly recommended in Vol. XL, p. 149. 



i?ubus micracanthus, R. spectabilis, R, nut- 

 kanus, and R. odorus, all described and figured 

 in the Arborehmi Britannicum, well deserve to 

 be more extensively cultivated ; and iSpirseV 

 bella and S. fliriaefolia, also described and 

 figured in the Arboretum Britannicum, are not 

 less so. 



Escallonm Arb. Brit., p. 993. All the species 

 of this genus are beautiful, and richly deserv- 

 ing of culture against a wall. The most 

 showy, both for its foliage and its flowers, is E. montevidensis 

 Arb. Brit., p. 993., and our fig. 13. 



E. illinita Lindl. {fig. 14.) is a remarkably hardy species, with 

 broad leaves and white flowers, which has been described in a 

 former page. South of London, there are few shrubs which 



