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flowers. L. s. minor, L. $: superbum, and the well-known type 

 (Fig. 299) are the best. The Japanese Golden Honeysuckle 

 (Z. brachypoda aureo-reticulata) has small green leaves netted 

 with golden-yellow. Its long sprays are useful- for mixing with 

 cut flowers for table decoration. Garrya elliptica (Fig. 30b) 

 is a charming winter-flowering shrub, whose graceful catkins 

 are often ioin. in length, and are produced at the ends of 

 the previous summer's well-ripened wood. No special kind 

 of soil is necessary for the cultivation of this Califbrnian 

 shrub. Bridgesia (Ercilld) spicata attaches itself to dry walls 

 as freely as the Ivy. Cotoneaster microphylla is a free grower, 



with deep green leaves, tiny white 

 flowers in spring, and red berries 

 in autumn. A charming shrub. 

 Rhaphiolepsis japonica (R. ovatd), 

 with leathery ovate leaves and straw- 

 berry-like flowers in spring, and black 

 berries in winter, is a most useful 

 shrub for low walls. Desfontainea 

 spinosa also succeeds well against a wall. 

 Its stiff Holly-like leaves, with red and 

 yellow trumpet - shaped flowers, are 

 effective. A rich soil, good drainage, and 

 an abundance of water in early spring, are 

 the chief essentials to its successful culture. 

 Osmanthus ilicifolius is well adapted for the 

 same purpose. O. i. purpureus has purplish- 

 bronze foliage, and is effective. The varie- 

 gated varieties are also serviceable wall- 

 coverers. 



In the warmer parts of England Eurya 

 japonica latifolia variegata would prove satis- 

 factory on a wall. Its lanceolate silvery-grey 

 leaves are bordered and blotched with cream- 

 white. Carpenteria californica is a lovely 

 white-flowered shrub, which in these islands 

 should at least be afforded the protection 

 of , a wall. Its bunches of fragrant flowers 

 are relieved by clusters of golden-yellow stamens. Rough loam 

 and peat suit it admirably, but care should be taken not to 

 expose it to cold draughts. Benthamia fragifera makes a hand- 

 some shrub where it thrives. Its great beauty lies not so much 

 in its. flowers as in its large, globular, reddish-yellow fruits. A 

 cold, wet soil is unsuitable for the well-being of this fine 

 shrub. Elaagnus pungens, with its gold- and silver-leaved forms, 

 are easily grown, and are of great ornamental value. The Japanese 

 Euonymuses are effective wall shrubs. Euonymus japonica macro- 

 phyllus has handsome deep green leaves, and is beautiful at all 



Fig. 300. — Garrya 



elliptica. 



