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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
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I find suits them i in sie way, increasing the size of 
the bloom, and g a dark glossy, and leathery 
look to the tole. вдн Ward, Hewell, Broms- 
grove 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
EARLY FLOWERING SHRUBS. 
ROMEDA FLORIBUNDA, —Flowering as e arl 
d 
belongs. "То see, as we have them at present, several 
the one now under notice is certainly no exception 
It is of 
oist, ee shaded situation, and good free 
тт in wh o grow. Another very е 
small-gr iig species now in flower is D.Blagayana, 
which with its ivory-white fragrant blooms and low- 
growing, straggling branches is just the thing for 
trailing over some rocky ledg ge. Whi Ist speaking ^s 
d 
lights up with its long spra 
pur e white flowers the pick corner of the shrub- 
growing trees with which cultivators are not v 
familiar. 6 
and pro sd 
of I beautiful yellow flower 
vithstand 60° ofcold, оге quite fifo to plant in 
this country, but it will flower only when the growth 
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is well matured, Ep 
HARDINESS OF ILEX NOBILIS OR INSIGNIS, 
This well named most handsome Indian Holly, a 
densely branched, 4 feet high plants, studded with their 
snow-white mossy bells is delightful, and would 
render us чеш excusable for € im this shrub as 
0 0 е mo 
1e of th t showy and beautiful of our har 
everg х ос а peat with ап а ture of 
sharp | woul cem to suit the e icm 
hi merican ie iid well, but i ver 
uff om want water, or nm 
appearance is instantly put on, and from which it 
is almost hoy to get it fully removed. е 
iring our most severe лањ, а 
twig or a flower injured in the least. 
DAPHNE NEAPOLITANA, 
Amongst the Daphnes are several of our earliest 
flowering as well as highly ornamental shrubs, and 
Fic. 41.—GROUP or youne’s CYPRESS (SEB P, 176.) 
bery grounds. Why : is so seldom seen is quite а 
aen for certainl more ornamental and easily 
managed plaut it would be hard to conceive, 
MENZIESIA EMPETRIFORMIS. 
Thi charming, low-growing—indeed, из 
almost add, creeping shrub, of Hesth- like appearan 
d at present profuse ely decked with its cushions ү 
- pe 8 
rockwork plant this Menziesia я likewise much 
request ; indeed, in this position 
ff to better advantage than Viii planted on the 
level, 
KÓLREUTERIA PANICULATA, 
There are many serviceable hardy shrubs and small- 
native of the Darjeeling Lm which when in full 
vigour produces leaves from 10 to 11 inches long, of 
a rich deep shade of green, or deeply toothed along 
their edges, has hitherto proved tender even in this 
comparatively mild southern climate. It will there- 
fore =ч good news to lovers of this ar are Баст, 
о hear that when grafted оп а stock o mo 
Holly d. aquifolia) it becomes cmos, if not ий 
fectly hardy. A nurseryman in the mee colder 
North of Ireland writes me word recently that 
having at the commencement of em winter planted 
out side by side a seedling and a grafted plant of this 
Holly, the former was killed done by the first 
severe frost, but the latter is still only slightly 
burned at the tips of the young shoots, W., E, Gumbleton, 
oe 
AZARA MICROPHYLLA, 
Inconspicuous as the flowers of this plant are in- 
