The New Zealand Pittosporums are popular and widely 
grown. All are handsome foliage plants. P. Mayi, with 
small, polished leaves and maroon-black flowers, has attained 
a height of thirty feet at Tregothnan. P. eugenoides, with 
large leaves, bears great clusters of creamy-yellow, fragrant 
flowers in the early spring, and of this species there is a varie- 
gated form. P. Colensoi is one of the most beautiful of 
evergreens, its habit being light and graceful. P. undulatum 
is very vigorous in growth, and P. tenuifolium is sometimes 
used as a hedge-plant. 
The Loquat, Photinia japonica, is of common occurrence, 
fine specimens often having a height and spread of over fifteen 
feet. At Enys it flowers annually but has never fruited; the 
only case where perfect fruit has been obtained in the county 
as far as is known, being at Mount Edgcumbe. 
Cordylines, or Dracznas, as they are more generally called, 
are a great feature in the landscape, with their fine, arching 
leaves. C. australis is the common species, and of this there 
must be many thousands in the county. The large bloom- 
spikes, often three feet in length and two feet across, are freely 
produced and very beautiful, being composed of countless small, 
white flowers, highly perfumed and haunted by insects during 
the sunny hours. Probably the finest specimen in the county 
is at Enys. ‘This was raised from seed nearly fifty years ago, 
and is twenty feet in height with a trunk circumference of six 
feet at one foot from the ground. A short distance above the 
ground-level it divides into four sections which are again 
subdivided into about thirty heads, ten of which have flowered 
in the same year. C. Banksit is of dwarfer growth than 
C. australis, rarely exceeding six feet in height, and is generally 
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