92 MY SHRUBS 
makes swift growth. The flower is pale pink, the fruit as large as 
your fist. It succeeds with me, but to see it in perfection a visit 
to our cliffs is necessary, where, in a public garden, it surpasses 
itself. 
The great race of the Pieris attain in some cases to trees among 
our glades. My favourites of this far-scattered genus are the 
white-flowered P. floribunda, from the United States, with P. formosa 
and the pink-flowered P. nitida, from Japan. P. cassinefolia and 
P. pulverulenta, from the Southern United States, when prosperous, 
are superb, deciduous Andromedas, with large white bells for 
blossoms. P. japonica flowers generously and grows finely. Its 
spring foliage, in crests of red above the green, is a feature of this 
shrub. 
Pinus canariensis will succeed here in a snug corner. My 
custom is to shorten the main branch, which soon loses the sky- 
blue colour that gives the fir its charm. Then younger points 
spring up, and you get a most effective shrubby bush of azure 
hue. The pigmy P. montana and the neat little P. ‘ Tanyosho,” 
from Japan, must go into your rockery along with the beautiful 
dwarf, P. Strobus—a real gem. 
Of Pimelea, from Australia, I have secured seed which has not 
yet germinated. ‘To discuss these admirable and beautiful shrubs 
on this foundation would be vain; but Piptanthus nepalensis has 
long prospered here, and, though some do not admire its pale 
yellow, laburnum-like blossoms, they please me well enough. 
From the temperate Himalaya comes this effective evergreen. 
Pistacia Lentiscus, the mastic-tree, is a handsome evergreen of 
economic value but no great garden interest. It grows but slowly 
in our climate—a charge not to be brought against Pittosporum. 
