MY SHRUBS 119 
Ida Whortle, I collected in the Peak, and there is no daintier little 
gem where prosperous. It flourished for a few years, then passed 
away. V. leucobotrys, from Bengal, must be a grand shrub for the 
stove, with white flowers and white berries curiously marked with 
black, but I know it not. V. corymbosum—rose pink flowers and 
blue-black berries—is a choice North American species, which 
makes a very big bush. 
Veronica is not a favourite genus with me, though many of the 
shrubby species make excellent hardy plants, and some of the new 
hybrids, of salmon and scarlet and purple, are handsome enough. 
V. Hulkeana, from New Zealand, is a very beautiful but tender plant 
that must be protected if frost is about. This shrub has exquisite 
sprays of lilac flowers. V. lycopodioides is another New Zealander, 
with the appearance of an erect clubmoss, hardy and handsome on 
a well-drained rockery. Mine puts forth its neat white flowers every 
June, and is prosperous enough. V. Traversi—again from New 
Zealand—makes a splendid bush, and V. Andersoni variegata is a 
beautiful foliage plant, a garden hybrid, hardy in the West. V. glauco 
cerulea is a pretty, decumbent species with blue flowers, while for 
a wall the variety V. salicifolia, with long racemes of cold white 
blossoms, makes a fine shrub in July. This New Zealander is very 
desirable. The Speedwell family is vast, but I lack space, or a mind, 
to more than these. 
With the hosts of the Viburnum I am forced to a severe dis- 
crimination also. New Viburnums are pouring in from China, but 
few fairly beat the old ones. I cleave to V. dilatatum, from Japan, 
an excellent shrub; V. Carlest, a lovely and hardy species from 
Korea, pink in the bud with pure white clusters of fragrant flowers, 
and V. Rhytidophyllum—what a rollicking name! The felted ever- 
