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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Viburnum tomento- 

 sum Mariesi 



V, tomentosum var 

 plicatum 



Japan 



Japan. Introduced 

 by Fortune in 1844 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



Cream 

 white 



Ivory white 



V. Tinus 



South of Europe 



and North of 



Africa. Introduced 



in 1596 



White ; 

 flowers in 

 Winter 

 in the 

 south, but 

 much de- 

 pends upon 

 locality 



General Remarks. 



are on the outer edge of the 

 flat cymes, and line the 

 spreading shoots. We hope 

 it will soon be plentiful. 



We have used the word tomen- 

 tosum as plicatum is a variety 

 of that species. V. tomento- 

 sum itself is a handsome 

 shrub with big, flattish cymes 

 and creamy - white sterile 

 flowers round the margin of 

 the truss. That known as 

 V. plicatum, a sterile form 

 of V. tomentosum, is a 

 beautiful shrub ; the most 

 precious perhaps of the 

 whole family. It makes a 

 glorious group on the lawn, 

 and in early June the spread- 

 ing shoots are so thickly 

 covered with flower clusters 

 that scarcely a vestige of the 

 dark-green, wrinkled leafage 

 is visible. It is quite hardy, 

 but in the north it will be 

 wise to choose a sheltered 

 position for it. As a wall 

 shrub too it is valuable, and 

 a specimen on a wall in the 

 Royal Horticultural Society's 

 gardens at Chiswick is quite 

 a mass of bloom every year. 

 Passers by who know not 

 the shrub wonder what it 

 is making so thick a mantle 

 of white. It grows 4 to 

 5 feet high in the British 

 Isles, taller in its native 

 country; the trusses of flowers 

 are erect on short branches, 

 and each measure about 3 

 inches across. Being in pairs 

 ihey make a striking double 

 row on every branch. V. 

 plicatum must come into 

 the smallest list of flowering 

 shrubs. 



This is a well-known evergreen 

 shrub, and quite hardy in the 

 south of these Isles, where it 

 is planted as a hedge. Even 

 when out of flower the bush 

 has a certain beauty owing 

 to its shining green leaves. 

 Near London it succeeds. 

 Many things considered har- 

 dier get severely injured 

 when theLaiu-ustinus escapes. 

 North and easterly winds are 

 harmful to it. There are 

 several varieties. Lucidum 



