Novembeb 3, 1888.] 



m£ GABDE NEBS' CtiBONlCLE 



533 



Fig. 73. — c.ejali inia japonica : hakDy shbob ; flowers yellow ; deduced one-half, detached floweb real size. 



which they are to be worked — a point of practice 

 which of course every grower carefully attends to, 

 but here, in order to get the bud inserted at the 

 lowest point in the stock the latter is laid at a very 

 acute angle with the soil, so much so that in baring 

 it, preparatory to inserting the bud, the heel is ex- 

 posed, and it is at that point the insertion is made. 

 The advantage is obvious — there is less liability to 

 form suckers, and when the plants are to be used in 

 pots there is no difficulty in burying the stock. 



In a belt surrounding this nursery, composed of 

 miscellaneous trees and shrubs which had been 

 planted in the earlier years of its existence, some 

 remarkable specimens occur. We noted particularly 

 Pinus insignis, in perfect health, about 60 feet high, 

 with boles from 16 to 20 inches in diameter ; and 

 Cupressus macrocarpa was about 60 feet high and 



had assumed its true arboreal character, having 

 spreading dense tops and boles about 18 inches 

 diameter. Erica codonodes was to be seen in dense 

 masses from 10 to 12 feet high and as much through, 

 which must have a very striking eHect when in 

 flower. 



CLESALPINIA JAPONICA.* 



The plant here figured (fig. 73) is a handsome 

 and very interesting one. It first flowered in 1887 

 in the Coombe Wood Nurseries of Messrs. Veitch, 



* Crrsalprniti japonica, Sie!>. et Zui'c, Fain. Nat., n. 3 

 Frunehet et Savatier, Eiunn. Plant. Jap., i.. 114; Ganhurr 

 Magazine, July 21, 1888, p. 443 (with figure); C. cri 

 Thuuberg.. Fl. Jap., p. 179; C. sepiaria, Miquel, Prolus 

 242 (non Koiburgh). 





who introduced it from Japan several years ago. 

 Certainly no other member of the genus has stood 

 the test of the Coombe Wood plant, which can — as 

 far as the South of England is concerned — be added 

 to our lists of hardy shrubs. No doubt, when dis- 

 tributed, C. japonica will be welcomed in many 

 gardens ; it thrives at Coombe Wood on a sloping 

 bank of gravelly clay and makes long shoots beset 

 with strong hooked prickles. These shoots should 

 not be cut away or pruned back but simply let alone. 

 During the current year flowers were much more 

 freely produced than in 1887, and now the cultiva- 

 tion of the plant is understood, it will doubtless 

 flower abundantly every year. 

 The genus Cicsalpinia contains — according to 



