Pittosporum Mayu 
Native country unknown. 
Nat. Order: PITTOSPOREA. 
Pittosporum Mayztt, Hort, ex Regel, “Cat. Plant. Hort. Aksakov,” 112. 
This fine exotic is said in the dictionary to be a green- 
house shrub, but I find it to be as absolutely hardy as 
anything in the garden. I have had it now for about thirty 
years, and have never lost a plant from wind or frost. I 
believe it comes from Australia. The close, dense habit of 
its growth and the bright colour of the evergreen foliage at 
once attract the eye in a collection of plants. It is a rapid 
grower, and, when young, requires to be gone over in the 
Spring for a few years to shorten the leading shoots and to 
give it body, for it is naturally of an upright habit. When 
it gets to be six or eight feet high and as much through, less 
pruning is required. At the end of April the scent of the 
small flowers, which are of a dark chocolate-purple and very 
abundant, may sometimes be distinguished quite forty yards 
from the plant. It smells strongly of honey. The seed is 
ripe in October, each capsule containing four. This plant is 
twenty feet high, and sixty feet in circumference. 
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