58 MY SHRUBS 
approval. That rare Britisher, H. polifolium, grows within a walk 
of me, and its white petals and golden eye gladden a rockery, for 
such is its abundance on certain limestone crags not far distant; 
that to transfer a plant or two wasno crime ‘These sun-roses can 
be cut back hard when their mounds become too large to control. 
Hermannia candicans did well in peat on a wall for some years, 
and hung out little yellow bells the size of the lily-of-the-valley. 
But after the fashion of too many other Australians, it faded away 
gradually, and is now with me no more. H. lavendulifolia is a 
small Cape species of good repute. 
Helichrysum antennaria is a neat little hardy shrub with white 
flowers, rare in cultivation, though very worthy of it ; while Heimia 
grandiflora is also hardy and very handsome. Nesea this Mexican 
is called by the elect. It has willow-like foliage and bright yellow 
flowers, which climb up the long stems and make a beautiful shrub 
of it in August. My plant is five feet high, and still growing. 
Hibbertia dentata is a splendid climber with dark purple foliage 
and yellow flowers. I have seen this fine Australian in great form 
near Penzance, but it is only a plant for very snug gardens. For 
a cold house wall nothing could be more attractive ; but I find it 
not in the catalogues. 
Hibiscus also, save H. roseus and H. syriacus, belong to the 
greenhouse, or stove. Hibiscus is a good and brilliant deciduous 
shrub of many gardeners’ varieties. 
Hippophe rhamnoides, the sea buckthorn, is a_ beautiful, 
silvery, hardy plant of wide distribution. But the shrub is 
dicecious, and unless you mate it, the orange-coloured berries will 
not appear. 
Hoherea populnea stands ten feet high with me, and has made a 
