195 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
spreading limbs. Stamens five style one; stigma two-lobed. In the 
South of England they are quite hardy, and in the South-West they grow 
very rapidly and flower freely. They are frequently planted to form 
hedges, for which purpose they are well suited. The species most 
commonly cultivated is— 
ESCALLONIA MACRANTHA (large-flowered). Stems, 10 feet high, 
rough with glands. Leaves elliptic, blunt-toothed, dark and shining 
above, pale and dull below, closely dotted with glands. Flowers large 
crimson red in terminal racemes, honeyed ; June to September. Intro- 
duced from Chiloe (1848). A common plant in gardens on the South- 
West coast, Ireland, ete. 
Given a well-drained situation with favourable temper- 
Cultivation. : 
ature, and the character of the soil appears to be of no 
moment to these shrubs ; they appear to do best near the sea. They are 
easily propagated by suckers from the base, by layering, or by cuttings. 
from the half-ripe wood in autumn. 
FLOWERING CURRANTS 
Natural Order SAXIFRAGER. Genus Ribes 
Ries (from Ribas, an Arabic name for some medicinal plant). A genus 
including between fifty and sixty species of hardy shrubs, with scattered, 
stalked leaves, 
solitary. Calyx tubular or bell-shaped, four- or five-toothed, often 
coloured ; petals minute, scale-like, in the throat of the calyx. Stamens 
four or five ; styles two. Fruit a globose berry. Natives of the Northern 
Temperate regions and the Andes; four species British. Several species 
are well known in gardens on account of the juicy fruit they produce, 
viz. R. grossularia, the gooseberry ; R. rubrum, the red currant; and R. 
nigrum, the black currant ; but with those we have no concern here, for 
their flowers are insignificant. The only species we shall describe are 
grown on account of their ornamental flowers, though the fruit of the 
first is very desirable. 
RIBES AUREUM (golden). Buffalo Currant. A smooth, unarmed 
shrub, about 6 or 8 feet high. Leaves three-lobed, deeply toothed. 
and white, yellow, red, or green flowers, in racemes or 
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