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Illicium anisatum Japan hardy. 



The aniseed tree. I have only a young plant, which grows well and 



stood this last winter. 



lochroma tuhulosa Yangana tender. 



A very beautiful flowering shrub, but rather tender, the frost cutting it 



back every winter. It grows very freely during the summer, and in autumn 



is covered with bunches of deep blue tubular flowers. A very showy plant. 



Laurns nobilis South. Europe hardy 



„ horhonia 

 „ camphora Japan tender 



The first, the sweet bay, is well known ; the last, the camphor laurel, is 



slow of growth, and is hardly hardy enough for our winters. When growing 



well, it is a graceful shrubby tree. 



Lagerstrcemia indica East Indies hardy. 



„ alha „ „ 



Being deciduous, they are hardy ; their foliage is small, but pretty. 



Mine have not bloomed yet. 



Magnolia grandijlora Carolina hardy. 



„ anonifolia China „ 



,, ftiscata „ „ 



„ conspiciia „ „ 



„ 'puvfurea Japan „ 



,, gracilis „ „ 



„ glauca North America „ 



„ soulangeana Hybrid „ 



The whole of these are very beautiful flowering plants, some growing 



into trees, but mostly shrubs. Grandiflora thrives well here, after it once 



becomes established in the ground, and when of any size is covered with its 



beautiful fragrant blooms. The Chinese varieties are very free growers, 



with fragrant but smaller flowers than grandiflora. Glauca, called in 



America the swamp laurel, has numerous cupped flowers, very fragrant ; 



any labour bestowed on the cultivation of them will be^ amply repaid by 



their beauty when in bloom ; they like to grow in rich soil. 



Quercus ilex 



„ luccomiiana 



„ lanata Japan 



„ spicata 



,, coccinea, and others 



The three first are evergreen oaks, and grow well here ; they are valuable 

 for planting in windy situations, forming handsome trees. The timber oaks 

 do not thrive well on this alluvial soil ; it appears to me they prefer more 

 clayey ground. 



RapJiiolepis indica China hardv. 



A very pretty free flowering dwarf shrub. 



