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milky-white flowers : this is apparently hardier, a freer grower, and more- 

 profuse flowerer than P. pendula, which is so fine in the United States. 

 There is no doubt that P. subhirtella is one of the most ornamental 

 of all the Japanese species of the genus. 



Spircca Aitchisonii, a native of Afghanistan, is a near ally of the 

 Himalayan S. IJindleyana, but hardier and with individual flowers, larger 

 in size ; the pinnate leaves too are a different shade of green, and the bark 

 of the young shoots is a purplish red. 



S. bract eata is one of the handsomest of the Japanese Spiraeas : it has 

 hemispheric heads of large white sweet-scented flowers with conspicuously 

 large discs. 



S. Millefolium is a Californian species, remarkable for emitting an 

 odour of creosote. On the Sierra Nevada it is found at elevations up to 

 10,000 feet. It is a most distinct plant with very clcsely pinnatisect 

 leaves clothed with minute stellar pubescence and glandular hairs and 

 large white flowers in erect terminal branching panicles. 



Eucryphia pinnatifolia. — A rare Chilian tree, about 10 feet high, 

 introduced by Messrs. Veitch many years ago from the Cordillera of 

 Concepcion. The pure-white flowers are about 2| inches across. 



Rubus palmatus. — This handsome bramble is a native of Japan and 

 China, and was introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Veitch about 1898. 

 It is a glabrous much branched shrub with slender climbing branches, 

 palmately five to six lobed leaves, and axillary white Clematis-like flowers, 

 an inch or an inch and a half in diameter. For planting out as a climber 

 in an unheated house cr corridcr it does splendidly. 



Cotoneaster imnnosa and C. Francheti are two distinct species from 

 Yunnan. The latter is even more ornamental than C. jmnnosa : it was 

 introduced to cultivation by Mons. Maurice L. de Vilmorin. C. pannosa 

 has white flowers and globose fruits with two stones, whilst C. Francheti 

 bas pink tinted flowers and oblong fruits with three stones. Both have 

 greyish woolly leaves, and are quite hardy. 



Schizophragma liydrangeoidcs. — Nearly invariably in English and also 

 Continental gardens the plant which gees under this name is Hydrangea 

 petiolaris, which is well figured in the "Botanical Magazine," t 6788. 

 In habit the two plants are very much alike : both ramble or climb 

 amongst rocks or old trees, and root here and there to attach themselves, 

 lint in the true Schizophragma apparently only one lobe of the sterile 

 floret ifl developed, and so in flower the plant is abundantly distinct 

 from the Hydrangea. We believe that Messrs. Veitch have the true 

 plant, also a new and desirable species not yet distributed. 



Parrotia J acquemontiana. — A native of the Western Himalayan 

 region, Dearly sillied to Fothergilla, but with a globular involucrate inflo- 

 . 0i nee instead of aspicato exinvolucrate one. The whole plant is clothed 

 with stellate hairs. It is a shrub or small tree flowering in spring before 

 the leaves appear, and does not in autumn don the gorgeous colouring 

 which characterises /'. persica, the other member of the genus. 



AplopQpptU ericoidet is a Californian composite with heath-like leaves 

 and small light vdlow flower-heads: it is a graceful and beautiful bush 

 which requires the shelter of a wall near London, but thrives in the open 

 along the south coast. 



