MY SHRUBS 41 
reasons concealed. It is a great flowerer, and might, perhaps, with 
advantage have been pruned back hard in autumn. 
Drimys Winteri, from drimys, sharp or acrid, furnished a 
famous febrifuge before quinine cut it out; now I think the latter 
drug has taken the place of Winter’s bark, but speak as a layman. 
Drimys is a beautiful evergreen, and its loose milk-white clusters of 
flowers make a very handsome shrub of it in spring. Here I grow 
it on a wall—needlessly, for it stands well in the open, and is more 
beautiful so displayed. D. aromatica, from Tasmania, is also in 
cultivation, but is not so effective. 
Edgeworthia chrysantha, a kinsman of the Daphnes, is a decidu- 
ous native of China, which crowns its naked twigs in February 
with rosettes of little, sweet-scented yellow flowers. ‘This is a 
good thing, but rather delicate with me. I think it likes a warm 
border and light soil. 
. Ehretia serrata, though an East Indian, makes no difficulty on 
a south wall. This deciduous shrub has not yet produced its 
white honey-scented flowers, though now of considerable size. 
Eleagnus, the oleaster, or wild olive, comprises some notable 
additions to our gardens. There are, indeed, a dozen good 
varieties, of which I succeed with EF. macrophylla, a large shrub, 
the under surface of whose leaves are like frosted silver. The 
white flowers, generously produced during autumn, cluster in the 
axils of the leaves. E. glabra aurea has a fine golden variegation, 
and soon makes a beautiful specimen; while E. multiflora is a 
handsome, deciduous species from Japan, which fruits abundantly 
in a fine summer with golden-brown berries, dry and tart. E. 
argentea, the Missouri silver tree, is another choice shrub from the 
New World. £. umbellata, too, from China and the temperate 
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