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THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. 



on the wall ; also the Mediterranean Heath (Erica mediterranea), which flowers in April, and 

 several other hardy flowering Heaths. Cotoneaster horizontalis is an evergreen shrub, very 

 pretty in growth, and covered in early spring with miniature yellow flowers; Leycesteria 

 formosa likes damp places in half shade, and flowers late in the summer; Comptonia 

 asplenifolia is a quaint Japanese deciduous shrub well worth growing — it is in no dread of 

 dryness, but requires to be planted near some other shrubs for protection in the winter ; the 

 low-growing Othonna cheirifolia has grey leaves the whole year round, and yellow flowers in 

 spring; this plant forms a good protection in winter and support in summer for the lovely 

 perennial Convolvulus mauritanicus. Lithospermum prostratum, Daphne Cneorum, Aca^na 

 millefolia, A. sarmentosa microphylla and A. pulchella, all cover the ground satisfactorily in 

 front of deciduous shrubs, and exclude weeds. Cotoneaster microphylla would flourish and berry 

 in the dry est corner All the Berberis are worth growing, and Berberis nepalensis, though rather 



- tender, has very 

 handsome foliage. 



In t h e 

 north-west border 

 a large patch of 

 the different 

 Bamboos, especi- 

 ally Arundinaria 

 japonica, Phyllo- 

 stachys nigra and 

 Bambusa palmata; 

 Philadelphus 

 grandiflorus, or 

 Mock Orange, 

 w i t h a g r o u p 

 b e 1 o w o f the 

 d w a r f e r k i n d s , 

 e s p e c i a 1 1 y t h e 

 single - flowering 

 P. microphyllus ; 

 Clethra, or Sweet 

 P e p per- b u s h , 

 which flowers in 

 July ; Kalmias ; 

 also the different 

 Azaleas (Ghent 

 and Mollis); 

 Magnolia stellata 



and various deciduous Japanese kinds ; large clumps with specimen plants of the modern 

 Weigela, which vary in tint from white to dark red (to look well after a year or two the old 

 wood must be cut out annually). 



Tree Paeonies (Pasonia moutan), which are slow growers, should be planted with plenty 

 of room between them. 



The first year many of the commoner and quickly growing shrubs would help to fill the 

 bare spaces ; for instance, Ribes sanguineum and R. aureum, the ordinary Lavender, and the 

 dwarfer variety which flowers earlier, Hydrangea paniculata grandifloia, Rosemary, and the 

 French Cotton Lavender (Santolina), which quickly fills a large space, whilst the common Rue 

 (Ruta graveolens), and its finer variety R. albiflora, seen against Golden Priver produces a 

 flower-like effect of colour in late autumn 



BAMBOOS AT GUNNERSBURY. 



