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when so situated in warm seaside parts of the country 

 soon forms a bush of neat and pleasing appearance. They 

 succeed best in sandy peat. 



Nandina (Berberideae). 



/ Nandina domestioa. — China and Japan, 1804. Not 

 generally hardy, but succeeding in several of the milder 

 parts of England and Wales. It grows from 4 feet to 

 6 feet in height, with pinnate leaves, which in a young 

 state are tinted with red, and trusses of individually 

 small white flowers in summer. On gravelly subsoil and 

 planted in light loam and a warm situation we have found 

 it to do best. 



Neillia (Rosaceae). 



Neillia Amurensis (syn Spircea amwensis). — Amurland. 

 This has roundish, lobed leaves with toothed margins and 

 white flowers. It attains a height of about 6 feet, and 

 succeeds well in light, warm loam, and in a position 

 sheltered from cold winds. 



N. opulifolia (syn Spircea opulifolia). — Nine Bark. 

 North America, 1690. A hardy shrub, nearly allied to 

 Spiraea. It produces a profusion of umbel-like corymbs 

 of pretty white flowers, that are succeeded by curious 

 swollen membraneous purplish fruit. N. opulifolia aurea 

 is worthy of culture, it being of free growth and distinct 

 from the parent plant in the foliage being of a rich golden 

 tint. 



N. thyesiploba (Nepaul, 1850) would seem to be quite 

 as hardy as N. opulifolia, and is of more evergreen habit. 

 The leaves are cordate-ovate, doubly serrated, and three 

 lobed. Flowers white in spicate, tbyrsoid racemes, and 

 produced rather sparsely. 



