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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order. 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Magnolia tripetala 

 (Umbrella tree), 

 (SynM, Umbrella) 



M. Watsoni 



Notospartium Car- 

 michselias 



North America 



Japan 



New Zealand ; 

 Leguminosae 



Creamy 



white ; 



early 



Summer 



Ivory white 



inside, 



flushed 



with rose 



on the 



exterior ; 



May and 



June 



Rose; June 



Nuttallia cerasifor- 

 mis 



California ; 

 Rosaceae 



White ; 

 early 

 Spring 



'Olearia Haastii 

 (Daisy Bush) 



New Zealand ; 

 Composjtas 



White ; 

 July and 

 August 



A tree remarkable for its large 

 handsome leaves, which are 

 arranged in a regular manner 

 towards the upper parts of 

 the branches. The flowers 

 are creamy white. A shel- 

 tered spot suits this best. 



A bush about 5 feet high. The 

 flowers are remarkable for 

 their central cluster of crim- 

 son filaments. It needs a 

 sheltered spot. 



This grows in New Zealand 

 several feet high, but not 

 here. It has graceful shoots, 

 which are very pretty when 

 smothered with the pink 

 pea-shaped flowers. A cor- 

 respondent to the Garden, 

 writing in July 1900 from 

 Castle Douglas, N. B. , says : 

 ' ' I am sure if my plant of 

 Notospartium Carmichasliae 

 were to be seen by anyone 

 who has not got it, there 

 would be countless inquiries 

 for it. It has always done 

 well and flowered freely, but 

 this year it is simply magni- 

 ficent, with only the points 

 of the twigs visible above 

 the mass of bright pink 

 blossoms." 



This is one of the prettiest and 

 most interesting of March 

 shrubs. It is of good habit, 

 and produces a large quan- 

 tity of dull white flowers in 

 drooping racemes. The fruits, 

 too, are pretty, not unlike 

 those of a small plum, of 

 reddish-yellow colour, with a 

 plum-like bloom. It must 

 be noted that the flowers are 

 liable to be dioecious, and so, 

 therefore the sexes must be 

 planted together, though we 

 have obtained fruit by stick- 

 ing branches of the male 

 flowers among those of the 

 female shrub. 



A valuable evergreen Box- 

 like shrub, laden with small 

 white Daisy-like blossoms 

 with a yellow disc. Though 

 a native of New Zealand, it 

 is hardy in most parts of 

 England. 



