36 MY SHRUBS 
Cydonia flowers and fruits with abandon. I have a crimson, 
a scarlet, a pink, and a white. The last is a superb little rock 
shrub, and never fails to deck its boughs with orange-coloured 
fruits when autumn comes. C’. Maulei, from Nepaul, has a dis- 
tinctive, brick-red bloom. ‘There are nurserymen who will tell 
you that its apples are edible. One would like to see them proving 
their words. Few more beautiful flowering things exist, by the 
way, than C. vulgaris, the quince. 
I have missed Crinodendron hookerianum, which you may call 
Tricuspadaria hexapetala if you prefer to do so. It is among the 
noblest shrubs, and still far too rare in gardens. From the 
dark evergreen foliage, the crimson flowers depend—waxlike and 
very brilliant. This splendid Chilian attains to great size, and 
sets fruit in our gardens. No worthier shrub could stand for 
ever linked to the august name of Hooker. C. dependens has 
white flowers in the eyes of the nurserymen ; but these poets are 
gifted with a sense of colour denied to many of us purblind 
amateurs. 
