NOVKMBEB 30, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS MAGAZINE. 



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large clusters, and are suweeded by bright 

 red fruits. Individual heads of fruits 

 sometimes exceed six inches in diameter. 

 There is a variety with yellow berries, but 

 it is not often grown. 



C. horizontialis. — -This was comparatively 

 unknown in gardens twenty-five years ago, 

 but is noAv quite plentiful. Its specific 

 name was given on account of its peculiar 

 manner of growth. Planted in the open 

 it attains a height of one and a-half to two 

 feet, but spreads over a considerable area 

 of ground, its curiously flattened branches 

 having a distinct and ornamental appear- 



The small dark green leaves turn 

 to gold and scarlet before they fall. No 

 decorative value is attached to the flowers, 

 for they are not in any way showy ; the 

 fruits are, however, bright red. When 

 planted against a wall, as in the case of the 

 fine specimen, herewith illustrated, at Gun- 

 nf^rsbury House, it attains a height of 

 quite twelve feet, the flat side branches 

 standing clear of the wall for a couple of 

 feet or so. It is a native of the Himalayas. 



C. humifusa.— -A new species from China, 

 is distinct and curious by reason of its 

 prostrate habit and long slender branches. 

 Growing very fast, it soon covers a wide 

 space of ground, and has proved itself to 

 be a good plant for the rock garden. The 

 ovate leaves are rather more than an inch 

 long;, and the fruits are bright red. 



C. Lindleyi. — Another strong-growing 

 species from the Himalayas. It has much 

 in common with C. bacillaris, from which 

 it can be separated by its shorter and 

 rounder leaves. It is not necessary to in- 

 clude both kinds in ordinary collections. 



C. microphylla. — An evergreen species 

 from the Himalayas, much grown on ac- 

 count of its small leaves, compact habit, and 

 f^onerally usefiil character. Although often 



planted as a bush in the open ground, and 

 throwing from one to two feet high, it is 

 frequently employed for covering walls, and 

 for that purpose much can be said in its 

 favoTir. Although of low stature when 

 planted in the open, it grows fifteen feet 

 or more in height agcainst a wall. The 

 white flowers are well shown against the 

 dark leafage, and in autumn a good crop 

 of red fruits may be seen. The variety 



glacialis is even more compact than the 

 type. 



C. moupinensis.— -Found in the same re- 



gion as C. bullata. 



The two species are 



very similar, except in the colour of the 

 fruits, which in moupinensis is black. 



C. mnltiflora. 

 China. 



A deciduous species from 

 AssuminG^ the habit of a small tree, 



it may be seen with a short trunk, bearing 

 a large head of branches, with numerous 

 long, thin, wiry branchlct-s. from which 

 ^bowy white flowers are borne freely in 

 ^l^y. Although easily one of the most con- 

 spicuous species ivhen in flow^er, its red 

 fruits are not produce<l freely enough to 

 mnke much of a displav. 



C. pannosa. — Intro<^luced to France from 

 ) imnan during the closing vears of the 

 -1st century. Attaining a height of eisiht 

 r ten feet, it forms a wide-spreading bush, 

 n itli long slender branchlets, bearing: small 

 ^vate leaves, which, together w4th the 

 young shoots, are covere<l with a greyish 

 nubescence, especially on the under-surface. 

 The red fruits are horne in profusion, but 

 lose much of their bricrhtness by reason of 

 ^ coating of short woolly hairs. 



C. rotundifoHa.— ^A verv attractive spe- 

 'las from the Himalayas. Growing: three to 

 four feet high, it bears small dark ^rreen 

 >emi-pverfrreen leaves, and large quantities 

 rich red berries, which are not troubled 

 birds to the same extent as are those 

 many other species. It thrives excel- 

 '^ntly as a bed or group in the open. 



C. rugosa Henrvi."Another new species 

 i^om China. Of loose habit, it api)ears as 



if it will attain a considerable height. The 

 oblong leaves are four inches in length and 

 an inch wide, and bunches of small red 

 fruits are borne in profusion from axillary 

 buds. It promises to become one of the 

 most ornamental kinds. 



C. Simonsi. — This is one of 

 known of all the cotonea«ters. 



the best- 

 A Hima- 



layan shrub, it is met with in gardens be- 

 tween six and fifteen feet in height. Its 

 branches usually assume a ratlier stiff and 

 upright habit^ and they are clothed with 

 semi-evergreen leaves. The flowers are nol 

 very showy, but the orange and scarlet 

 fruits create a pleasing effect in autumn. 



EPIPHYLLUMS. 



The showy-flowered EpipJiyllum truucatum 

 and its several varieties seem at the present 

 day to be under a cloud, though for the 

 embellishment of the warm greenhouse or in- 

 termediate structure towards the end of the 

 year they arc most valuable. They are mostly 

 grafted as standards on to the Pereskia, and 

 in this way their semi-pendulous habit of 

 growth enables the flowers to l>e seen at their 

 be.st. Beside this they are first-rate subject<3 

 for growing in suspended baskets, for which 

 purpose they are better on their own roots 

 than when grafted. They may be readily 



6;M.505 



A WALL SPECIMEN OF COTONEASTETt HOEIZONTALIS. 



When planted in the border or on the rockery, this handsome species grows more or 

 less horizontally; but when growing against a wall, as in the case of the specimens at 

 Gunnershury House, it a^ssumcs an erect habit, and attains a considerable height. 



The specimen illustrated is about eight feet high. 



C. thymifolia.-vThis resembles C. micro- propagated by means of cuttings; indeed, 

 phylla in many respects, although it-s ever- 

 green leaves are somewhat narrower. Its 

 white flowers and red fruits are equally 



W. Dallimore. 



showy. 

 Kew. 



Cotyledon f uigrens.— This cotyle- 



dt)n. or echevcria as it is generally termed, 

 will, in the greenhouse, produce its bright- 

 coloured blossoms during the winter months, 

 it is also a first-rate wnndow plant. — K. 



good-sized branches will root without difli- 

 culty. Strange as it may appear, epiphyl- 

 lums were at one time grown in considerable 

 numbers in order to supply Covent Garden 

 market with cut flowers, but that was in the 

 days of formal bouquets when practically all 

 flowers were wired. Then these epiphyllum 

 flowei^ often formed a fringe around the out- 

 side of the bouquet, their peculiar oblique 

 shape standing them in good ^tead for this 

 purpoce. - ^- 



