Hydrangea clothed to the ground with curving leaves four inches across. 
The branchlets of its white-flowered bloom-spikes are much less 
thickly set than those of C. australis, so that the pannicles are of 
lighter appearance. Of its variety erythrorachis, with a red 
mid-rib to the leaf, there is a fine specimen at Trelissick. 
C. indivisa is a noble foliage plant, often confounded with 
C. australis, though perfectly distinct. Its leaves are about five 
feet in length and five inches in breadth, blue-grey in colour, 
with a mid-rib of bright red. An example at Enys, ten feet in 
height, is probably the finest in Cornwall. It has only flowered 
once, as far as can be ascertained, in the British Islands, this 
being in Tresco Abbey gardens, Isles of Scilly, in the spring 
of 1895. The dense and pendent flower-spike, blue-black and 
yellow in colour, is by no means ornamental, and the failure of 
this cordyline to flower is not to be regretted, since its chief value 
lies in its foliage. 
No plant is more valuable during the early autumn than 
Hydrangea Hortensia. In Cornwall it assumes enormous 
proportions, single bushes attaining a height of eight feet and 
a diameter of ten feet, while a flower-head has been measured 
thirty-five inches in circumference. At Menabilly there must 
be many hundreds planted out in the grounds, and in a wood 
on the sea-coast near Land’s End they are very fine. In many 
cases the plants produce flowers of a delightful clear-blue colour, 
but, although numerous reasons have been assigned for this 
change of tint, such as shade, peat, iron or slate in the soil, all 
these theories have been disproved by instances where such 
conditions did not produce blue flowers, and the predisposing 
cause still remains uncertain. 
The chaste, white Arum Lilies are much esteemed for 
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