Eucryphia pinnatifolia 
Native of Chrlt. 
Nat. Order: Rosacea. Tribe: QuILLAJEs. 
Eucryphia pinnatifolia, Gay, Fl. Chil. i. 352 (1845), 
Bot. Mag., t. 7067 (1889). 
A deciduous shrub of great beauty, with large pure white 
flowers and golden-yellow anthers; they are borne in pairs 
near the end of the branches, and rather remind one of the 
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum calycinum). It flowers in 
August and remains quite three weeks in bloom. It was 
introduced from Chili in the year 1860 and is perfectly hardy, 
never having been injured by the most severe frost. Itis a 
strong grower and well repays liberal treatment. The compost 
should consist of peat and loam in equal parts, with some 
spent mushroom manure. The plant photographed is ten 
feet high and thirty in circumference. It bore a fine crop of 
seed-pods in 1901, which it took fifteen months to ripen ; they 
proved fertile, and we have now several hundred seedlings. 
Hitherto it has been somewhat rare in this country from the 
difficulty of propagating it, as it does not strike readily from 
cuttings. Both on account of its hardiness and of its beauty 
I hope that it may soon become more common in our 
gardens. 
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