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known under the names of Clematis ccerulea and C. 

 alpina. It enjoys a lime soil. A native of Europe. 



AzARA. — The best known of these is A. microphylla; 

 it is not one of the hardiest of shrubs, but in many 

 gardens, especially where sheltered and by the sea, 

 it covers much space with dense glossy leaves j the 

 flowers are white, small, and give place to orange- 

 coloured berries in autumn. It is quite a shrubby 

 wall plant. 



Benthamia fragifera. — Now known as Cornus 

 capitata, but in gardens its old name will long be 

 retained. In Devon, Cornwall, and in Wicklow, 

 Cork, and Kerry, and elsewhere in Ireland, this fine 

 shrub flowers and fruits luxuriantly as a bush on 

 the border or lawn, but in less favoured places it 

 needs the warmth and shelter of a wall. It is a 

 native of Nepaul, and is readily increased from 

 home-grown seeds, and the plant, like all its allies, 

 is a rapid grower in any deep, rich, loamy soil. 

 Quite small bushes of this plant and the common 

 Arbutus Unedo are often very handsome as seen laden 

 with fruit in South and Western Ireland. 



Berberidopsis corallina. — Mr. Burbidge writes 

 in the Garden : " The finest specimen of this beau- 

 tiful and distinct evergreen climber I ever saw was 

 on the stable wall at Lakelands, Cork, when that 

 noble place was in the hands of the late Mr. William 

 Crawford, a great lover of garden vegetation. It is 

 a native of the Chilian Andes, introduced in 1862. 

 It likes a deep peaty soil or loatn and leaf-mould on 

 a moist bottom, and, like the Lapageria and its dwarf 



