34 MY SHRUBS 
they grow too large for me, and a friend, who owns perhaps the best 
collection of Crategus in the West Country, generously makes me 
free of it. 
Convolvulus Cneorum, from South Europe, is a splendid shrub, 
and its mound of silver sparkles throughout the year, brightened 
at flowering time by countless pale blossoms. Coprosma, on the 
contrary, I cannot praise. The best, C’. Bauerina picturata varie- 
gata, is not hardy—what could be with such a name ?—but it 
makes a handsome pot plant. The hardy species that I know is 
a mean thing. 
The Dog-woods are worthy shrubs, and I have too few. Cornus 
Mas argentea is like a little tree of gold in spring before the leaves 
appear. This cornelian cherry, from Austria, should be in all 
collections. It fruits occasionally, but one has no desire to rob 
it twice. The tiny C’. canadensis proceeds leisurely in a peat bed. 
Coronilla Emerus is a hardy evergreen here with fragrant yellow 
blossoms, while Corokza, from a Maori word meaning “ Kia’s claw,” 
is a hardy New Zealander, welcomed by colonials of that country 
as familiar rubbish from their bush. C’. cotoneaster is a network 
of crooked little implicated branches, amid which in spring, shine 
innumerable yellow stars, followed by occasional dull crimson 
berries ; while C’. Buddleioides has a different habit and will make 
a larger plant, but the blossom is similar, though of a paler tint. I 
have, also, C’. elliptica, whose manners and customs are not as yet 
declared ; but it looks to be something between the other two. 
Correas are useful and beautiful South Australians. They 
seem hardy enough here, and make good growth, flowering in 
spring and onward. Perhaps C. cardinalis is the most showy. 
Corylopsis pauciflora, of the tribe of hamamelis, hangs out tender 
