4.2 MY SHRUBS 
Himalayas, is a very good thing, with silvery foliage and fragrant 
white flowers in June. Against a wall this will prove nearly 
evergreen. 
Eleutherococcus Henryi is, 1 suppose, one of Mr. Henry’s many 
finds. It has a rubus-like look, and the deciduous, five-foliate 
leaves are handsome. The white flowers are globular and the 
fruits in black clusters like ivy-berries. This plant enjoys full 
sun and is quite uninteresting, save to the botanist. 
Elzocarpus reticulatus is a handsome evergreen, with lovely 
corymbs of fimbriated flowers that rise out of the axils of the 
leaves. This admirable Australian will demand a very snug 
corner, and the small piece that you may buy can safely be left 
in the cold house for the present. 
Elsholtzia Stauntonit, a semi-shrub recently brought to our 
gardens from China, attains to considerable size, and erects spikes 
of carmine pink blossoms above its mentha-scented foliage. It 
is hardy, and resembles a gigantic mint. 
I have no fitting place for Embothrium coccineum, that prince of 
flowering shrubs from the Andes. I think the plant did its best 
with me, and a fine vigorous piece, six feet high, that came from 
Cornwall, flattered hope awhile in a cool corner amid things larger 
than itself. But Embothrium could not conquer the crumpled 
rose-leaf in his lot, and he could not tell me what it was ; and so 
he died—I dare say of my ignorance. Thrice have I tried him ; 
thrice have I failed with this glorious plant. But he thrives to 
west and east of me, reaches to arboreal dimensions, and decks 
himself in early summer with a flame of fire. 
Enkianthus campanulatus is an excellent and ornamental de- 
ciduous shrub which suggests a pieris at first glance. The blossom 
