MY SHRUBS 109 
only the Siberian S. racemosa, a pleasant, scarlet-fruited shrub 
for a spare corner. 
Santolina chamecyparissus, the fragrant Cotton Lavender, 
makes a good silvery mass with rayless yellow daisies rising above 
it in summer time ; but the North American grease wood, Sarco- 
batus vermicutalus, has no obvious charm, and will soon be called 
upon to leave me in favour of something more entertaining. 
Sarcococca ruscifolia is a better thing. This little evergreen from 
China decks itself with fragrant white flowers, which peep effectively 
from the dark foliage in January—a time when sweet white flowers 
are scarce. The scarlet fruits are then ripe also. 
Satureia montana, the Winter Savory, is a neat little labiate, 
with spikes of pale purple flowers above the close evergreen foliage. 
There is no better small bush for a rockery than this excellent 
sub-shrub, but it seems rare in cultivation. Virgil praises it as 
a fragrant herb to plant beside the beehive. 
Schizandra chinensis is a handsome, climbing shrub of hardy 
constitution and deciduous habit. The leaf breaks early, and the 
plant grows steadily but slowly on a south wall. The flowers are 
small and white; the scarlet fruits I have not seen as yet. It 
affords an example of scientific nomenclature worth noting, for 
the word is composed of schizo—to cleave, and andros—a male, 
because the stamens are split. Comment is needless. This 
wretched “ schizo”’ does service again and again in botany, and 
one often in a garden longs to know what Adam called the 
things. He had no Greek or Latin at any rate. Perhaps, if we 
took children into a garden and invited them to invent names, 
we should get something more attractive than the atrocious words 
we are called upon to suffer at present. 
