1 86 TREES AND SHRUBS 



Embothrium coccineum. — South America. The 

 Fire Bush. The most brilHant of all flowering trees 

 capable of out-door culture in this country. In May 

 every twig is laden with clusters of long flowers of 

 glowing scarlet, the trees presenting a most gorgeous 

 spectacle. Every good garden in Cornwall and most 

 in South Devon possesses specimens, some con- 

 taining a dozen or more. The finest are probably 

 Trewidden and Penjerrick, where they are 30 feet in 

 height and as much in spread. 



Eriostemon buxifolius. — Australia. A small 

 evergreen shrub, bearing pink flowers in the spring, 

 Tresco. 



ESCALLONIA ILLINATA. — Chili. Bears white flowers 

 in July. There is one 15 feet high at Menabilly. 

 E. revoluta — Chili. Bears white flowers three 

 quarters of an inch long in August, 20 feet high. 

 Menabilly. E. organensis — Organ Mountains. Bears 

 rose-coloured flowers. Fine specimens in more than 

 one garden. E. floribunda — Montevideo. Bears 

 fragrant white flowers in August. Common in the 

 south-west. 



Eucalypti. — Australia. Some thirty or forty 

 specimens are grown, of which perhaps the best 

 known are : E. globulus, which has attained a height 

 of 50 feet ; E. citriodora, 20 feet, against the house at 

 Tregothnan ; E. amygdalina, &c. Many flower freely 

 and bear fertile seed. E. Gunnii flowers freely at 

 Parkstone, Dorset, in Professor Wallace's garden. 

 It is quite hardy there. 



Eucryphia pinnatifolia.— Chili. A beautiful 



