MY SHRUBS Ag 
The conifers are a great fascination to me, and, for another and a 
better world, I have already designed a pinetum, that shall be 
the delight of those gardening spirits that will accept my invitation 
to gather there. I can see something in the style of Vallambroso, 
with pines leaping, like mighty columns of silver, to their crowns 
of darkness against the everlasting blue. But the nomenclature 
shall all be changed, and my pines named afresh by horticultural 
seraphim. Captain Fitzroy, R.N., was a great and good man; 
but in that pinetum above the stars, things will not, I hope, be 
called after even the most distinguished members of the Services. 
Take Fluggea, so named after the excellent Flugge, a cryptogamic 
botanist. Now, is it fair to call an innocent, green-flowered 
East Indian, with white berries, ‘‘ Fluggea”’? Emphatically no. 
Moreover, one is unconsciously influenced by names, and that 
psychological fact should have been remembered by Linnzus and 
other heroes who handled this delicate matter. Fluggea is simply 
handicapped out of the race—like many other good and more 
important people. 
Fontanesia has been grown and cast out. It is rather a mean 
thing from China, in the privet style, and resembles somewhat a 
small-leaved phillyrea; but it lacks the fragrance of that more 
worthy shrub. 
Fothergilla Gardeni has tufts of sweet-scented, sessile flowers in 
May, and makes a handsome bush after passage of years. This is 
an American and kinsman of Hamamelis. 'There is a finer species 
now in cultivation which I have not seen. 
Fremontia californica stands high among great shrubs ; but this 
glorious golden mallow is not easy, and one seldom sees it pros- 
perous in England. The flowers are almost of an orange hue, and 
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