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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order. 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Pernettya mucro- 

 nata 



Cape Horn. 



Introduced in 1828 



Ericaceae 



Berries the 

 chief beauty 



Philadelphus coro- 

 narius (Mock 

 Orange or Sy- 

 ringa) 



P. gordonianus 



'P. grandifiorus 

 (Large - flowered 

 Mock Orange, 

 Syn P. inodorus) 



P. hirsutus (Hairy- 

 leaved Mock Or- 



*P. Lemoinei 



(Lemoine's Hybrid 

 Mock Orange) 



Europe and Asia ; 

 Saxifragese 



North America 



Southern United 

 States 



North America 

 Garden Hybrid 





White ; 

 early May 



White ; 

 early July 



Whitei ; 

 Midsummer 



White 



White ; 



June and 



July 



group of plants. Some fifty 

 or so years ago Mr. Davis of 

 Hillsborough began his ex- 

 periments with such forms of 

 the Pernettya as were then 

 in cultivation, and he selected 

 as his first seed-parent P. 

 angustifolia, a native of 

 China, a densely branched, 

 narrow - leaved evergreen 

 shrub, growing to a height 

 of about 3 feet. The fruit 

 of this species is light pink 

 in colour. It is a very effec- 

 tive subject, thriving well 

 under the shade of trees, but 

 in such a position does not, 

 as might be expected, flower 

 so freely as when grown in 

 the open. P. mucronata, 

 the type, bears reddish-tinted 

 fruits. Regarding P. angus- 

 tifolia as the hardiest of the 

 two, Mr. Davis made this the 

 first seed-bearing parent, and 

 found the seedlings from it 

 to vary considerably in the 

 character of the foliage and 

 colour of the fruit. This en- 

 cotiraged him to take seed 

 from the best of his seed- 

 lings, and from it obtained 

 the fine varieties which are 

 now in our gardens. It is 

 difiicult to over-estimate their 

 value as berry-bearing plants 

 in autumn in peaty soil. 

 A well-known shrub, from 6 to 

 10 feet high, with a pro- 

 fusion of white, strongly 

 scented flowers. There are 

 several varieties, the best 

 being aurea, with golden 

 leaves, and Keteleerii, with 

 double blossoms. 

 A free - growing bush with 

 flowers twice the size of the 

 preceding, and about six 

 weeks later in expanding. 

 Forms a bush about 12 feet 

 high, with large leaves and 

 blossoms. It lacks the fra- 

 grance of the other species, 

 which is to many people a 

 point in its favour. 

 Grows obout 5 feet high, and 

 bears its comparatively small 

 flowers in great profusion. 

 A hybrid between P. coronarius 

 and the little New Mexican 

 P. microphyllus. It (P. 



