NOTES ON LITTLE-KNOWN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



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Nancy in 1893 from seeds collected near Kashgar by the Russian traveller 

 Roborowsky, and was first flowered at the Chateau du Crest by the late 

 IMons. Marc Micheli. A handsome Tamarisk, figured in the " Revue 

 Horticole," 1901, p. 379, under the name of T. hispida var. astivalis, is 

 ^apparently a form of T. Pallasii, and is certainly not any form of 

 T. hispida. 



Stuartia Pseudo-camellia. — This Japanese member of the Camellia 

 family is an erect-growing handsome deciduous shrub with axillary, 

 solitary, globose white flowers, about two inches in diameter, and orange- 

 red anthers. 



S. pentagyna is a native of the mountains of Carolina and Georgia, 

 and was first cultivated at Kew long before 1785. The bushes have a 

 'truly beautiful appearance when in flower ; the petals are creamy white 

 above and tinged with red on the outside ; the anthers are yellow. 



S. virginica has even larger flowers than S. pentagyna : they measure 

 2 to 3 inches across, and the stamens are purple : it is a native of 

 Florida, North Carolina, &c. Half a century ago the two last-mentioned 

 species were not unfrequent in English gardens ; and in old-fashioned 

 gardens, where no attempt has been made to remove or transplant them, 

 fine bushes still exist. 



Gordonia Lasiantlius. — The "Loblolly Bay" is a native of the 

 . Southern United States. According to Sargent's " Silva of North America " 

 it attains a height of from 60 to 75 feet with a straight trunk 18 to 20 

 inches in diameter : the flowers measure nearly 3 inches across. Attempts 

 should be made to grow this magnificent tree on the south-west coast &c. 

 An early volume cf the "Botanical Magazine " records its flowering under 

 glass at Clapham in 1769, and in " Hcrtus Collinsonianus " the following 

 mem. occurs : " Loblolly Bay flowered at Mr. Greening's, at Esher, 

 Aug. 1765—1 believe the first." 



G. pubescens grows about 15 feet or 20 feet high. It has large white 

 flowers and yellow anthers, and is a very handsome shrub. From 

 Sargent's " Silva " we learn that the species was discovered by John Bartram 

 in 1765 on the Altamaha River in Georgia, occupying with Pinckneya 

 pubens an area of two or three acres. W. Bartram, who accompanied 

 his father during his 1765 journey, revisited the locality in 1775, and 

 : again in 1778, and collected roots and seeds. No botanist since 1790 has 

 seen plant growing wild, and all efforts to find it in original locality 

 elsewhere have proved unsuccessful. I have seen the plant in Fairmount 

 Park, Philadelphia, flowering profusely, and last year also in the Arnold 

 Arboretum at Boston. This would doubtless thrive in the open in some 

 favoured spots in the south-west of England. 



Plagiantlms Lyallii. — This beautiful member of the Mallow family is 

 a native of New Zealand, where it occurs in mountainous districts at 

 • elevations cf from 2,000 to 4,000 feet, and attains a height of 20 to 30 feet. 

 The drooping long- stalked flowers are produced in axillary fascicles of 

 from three to five, measure from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, 

 . and have white petals, yellow anthers, and pink styles. Near London it 

 flowers profusely against a wall. In sheltered places nearer the sea it 

 " would probably succeed in the open. 



Ilex verticillata. — The Black Alder, or Winterberry, of North America 



