CHAPTER VII 



HARDY WALL SHRUBS (continued) 



Cotoneaster — Embothrium — Eucryphias — Euonymus — Fuchsias — 

 Fremontia — Garrya — Gordonia — Indigofera — Lespedeza — Lippia 

 — Myrtles — Olearias — Philadelphuses — Plagianthus — Ozothamnus 

 — Prunuses — Punica — Cydonia or Pyrus — Raphiolepis — Ribes 

 — Rosemary — Solanums — Stuartias — Vitex — Viburnums — Vinea 

 — Aristotelia — Desfontainea — Enkianthus — Phillyrea — Photinia. 



The old Cotoneaster microphylla, one of the best of the 

 genus for a wall, is valuable on account of its evergreen 

 foliage, white flowers and scarlet berries. Its adapta- 

 bility to training and trimming, and its rapid growth 

 constitute it a valuable plant of its kind. Simonsii 

 should not be forgotten, and acuminata, frigida and 

 nummularia may also be named, the three last named 

 being only sub-evergreen. 



Southern gardeners are favoured in being able to grow 

 in the open the glorious Embothrium coccineum, with 

 its long, scarlet, drooping flowers and its large, entire, 

 evergreen leaves. It is best suited for a low wall, and 

 is propagated by cuttings of young shoots or half-ripe 

 wood in peat and sand under a glass in bottom heat. 

 The Embothrium likes peat and sand in the soil in 

 which it is grown. Two of the Eucryphias, which are 

 beautiful Rosaceous shrubs, are fairly hardy on walls, 

 and like a south wall and a border of loam with some 

 peat and sand. That best known is pinnatifida, with 

 large white flowers, and evergreen pinnate leaves. The 

 other is cordifolia, also with white blooms, but with 



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