46 MY SHRUBS 
splashed with silver makes a beautiful specimen upon a rockery. 
Others worth growing in a small garden are E. alatus, another 
Japanese, whose foliage turns pink in autumn, and E. latzfolius, 
with white flowers and scarlet foliage in autumn. E. nanus linifolius 
is a dainty dwarf with beautiful fruit ; and one may also mention 
E. radicans microphyllus—a mite for the moraine. 
Eurya latifolia variegata has splendid foliage of dark green, 
pink and white. But this Japanese shrub is tender, and will need 
a very snug wall and close attention when the frost comes. 
Eupatorium weinmannianum makes a huge bush quickly in the 
West. This South American flowers in late autumn, and hides 
itself behind a cloud of pinkish bloom followed by pearly grey seed 
vessels. The blossom smells of cocoa-nut oil; but what matter ? 
Things that look well in November may be forgiven much. 
Eucryphia pinnatifola stands among my twenty-five favourites. 
The beautiful thing has flowered with me ever since it was two 
feet high, and blossoms more generously each successive year. 
The noblest piece in England—grown to a tree—belongs to Mr. 
J. Bolitho, of Penzance, and is worthy of devout pilgrimage. 
Chili has sent us few greater treasures than this glorious shrub. 
The petals are large and white, and from their midst a sheaf of 
delicate stamens spring with pale pink anthers. E. cordifolia, an 
evergreen species also from Chili, is declared to be equally splendid 
and hardy. 
Exochorda grandiflora | gave away—not in the right spirit, but 
merely because it grew too large for me. It is a very handsome, 
hardy shrub, akin to spirea, with snow-white globular blossoms. 
Its habit is to make a large mound of green and for proper display 
it needs abundant space. 
