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is rarely seen in English gardens. In a wild state it occurs in swamps 

 from Nova Scotia to Florida, grows from 6 to 25 feet in height, and has 

 bright red berries clustered so as to appear verticillate. In autumn the 

 decaying leaves turn black. There is a form in cultivation with golden 

 yellow berries, and now and then white-fruited forms are met with in 

 a wild state. 



Cyrilla racamiflorcL— The Southern Leatherwood or Ironwood is a 

 shrub or small tree sometimes in its native habitats attaining a height of 

 85 feet, with a trunk 15 inches in diameter : it occurs along streams and 

 swamps from South Virginia to Florida and Texas, mostly near the 

 coast. It has narrow racemes, 2 to G inches long, with very numerous 

 small white flowers. I have seen this flowering freely in the south of 

 England. 



Eaotiymus alatus. — This Japanese species is not showy in flower or 

 fruit, but its winged branches are striking, and the brilliant colouring of 

 the decaying leaves in autumn especially so. 



Ceanothus pap'dlosus. — This Californiau plant was discovered by 

 Douglas when collecting for Messrs. Yeitch : it has handsome bright 

 blue flowers and papillose leaves. 



C. thyrsiflorus. — The Blue Myrtle, or California Lilac, is a native of 

 the mountainous regions of Western California. Under favourable con- 

 ditions it attains a height of 35 feet : it grows best in the Douglas Fir and 

 Redwood region ; along wind-swept coasts it only gets a foot or two high. 

 Both C. Veitchianus and C. Lobbianus, long regarded as distinct species,, 

 are now believed to be natural hybrids of which one of the parents is 

 C. thyrsiflorus. 



Viscaria scrratifolia. — A spiny shrub or small tree, a native of Chili, 

 quite hardy in the neighbourhood of London, at any rate. A figure 

 appeared in the Gardeners' Chronicle, vi. 1876, p. 325, and the plant was 

 then strongly recommended. As the figure in question was made from 

 Kcw material and the plant furnishing it has never been injured by frost, 

 and still flowers profusely every year, it is useless to insist further on its 

 hardiness. In June the bushes are sheeted with myriads of small 

 fragrant white blossoms. 



JEsculus indica. — The Indian Horse Chestnut is a lofty and not less 

 ornamental tree than the common Horse Chestnut: it is a native of 

 Kiimaon <fee., where it occurs at elevations from 8,000 to 10,000 feet 

 above sea level. The petals are white, the two upper ones having a 

 blotch of red and yellow at the base. It may be not out of place here to 

 -:'} that the ordinary Horse Chestnut is a native of the mountains of 

 Greece, and thai it is not a Central Asian plant, as stated in so many 

 books. 



Curinriii /<< /» >n ica. — The coral-red flowering and fruiting petals of 

 thifi ore very pretty but poisonous, like those of the European species, 

 ('. ntyr/i/o/in, the Kedotil of the Mediterranean region. japonica is, 

 however, much hardier than ( '. myrtifolia. 



Adrnumrjms dr,-nrl icatis. This grows in the mountains of Granada 

 in company with Abiei Pmsapo. It looks like the Common Gorse, but is 

 quite spineless, ami makes a very compact bush, a foot or two high, 

 Op -red with yell iw Laburnum-like flowers. Like so many of the 



