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Photinia variabilis (P. villosa) is a deciduous plant well worth grow- 

 ing for its fine colour in the autumn, but I think it would be more at 

 home in a lighter soil than this is. 



Corylopsis spicata, from Japan, bears hanging yellow flowers in April ; 

 it closely resembles the Hamamelis, and belongs to that family. 



Shepherdia canadensis is very rare in England, and in many places 

 is a very bad doer ; it likes lime in the soil. Professor Sargent, at a 

 recent visit, told me that ours was the finest plant he had ever seen. It 

 is a strong shrub with greyish green leaves resembling an Elaeagnus. 

 The two families are closely allied and constantly confused, though they 

 may easily be distinguished by the fact that the former have opposite 

 leaves and the latter alternate. 



Shepherdia argentea is somewhat more silvery and better looking ; it 

 is very rare in English gardens, although it frequently occurs in nursery- 

 men's catalogues ; but the plant which they supply under this name is in 

 reality Elaeagnus argentea, which has steely, metallic-looking foliage, such 

 as I know of in no other plant, but it is a bad doer on our stiff soil. It 

 is the ' Silver Berry ' of North America. 



Elaeagnus macrophjjlla is a handsome shrub, which aiso has shiny, 

 metallic-looking leaves ; it is a better doer with us than E. argentea. 

 E. multiflora (E. crispa, E. edulis) has profuse buff, small flowers in 

 May. The other evergreen forms are not really hardy with us. 



Cephalanthus occidentalism the ' Button Bush ' of North America, 

 has light brown flowers, borne singly, and of spherical shape, after the 

 style of Buddleia globosa. 



Stachyurus praecox has yellow-green flowers in February-March 

 before the leaves come out ; it is not of much account, except for the fact 

 that it blooms when flowers are scarce. 



Trachelospermum crocostomum is a small-leaved evergreen, from 

 China (?), which we have only recently acquired, and of which I can give 

 no particulars. 



Neviusia alabamensis. — The ' Alabama Snowwreath ' is of erect 

 habit and bears white flowers, which appear to consist exclusively of 

 stamens ; it is quite worthless from an ornamental standpoint. 



Coronilla glauca has a beautiful yellow flower in early June, but is 

 only half hardy. 



Viburnum tomentosum has conspicuous flat, Hydrangea-like flowers 

 in early June. The sterile and finer form, Viburnum tomentosum 

 plicatum (fig. 48), is better known with its vivid white, globose cymes. 

 V. cassinoides, the ' Withe Rod ' of the United States of America, is 

 sometimes classed as a variety of V. nudum. V. bullatum is a dwarf 

 plant with round leaves, of unknown origin, whose colour is good in 

 autumn. We also grow V. acerifolium and the native V. Lantana, and 

 V. macrocephalum, which has the largest, showiest flowers of the genus. 



Ehretia acuminata (E. serrata) is a handsome upright, long, smooth- 

 leaved plant, which gets cut back in winter if it has not properly ripened 

 its wood ; the foliage when young has a good purple tone. 



Euptelea polyandra. — I have not long been acquainted with this rare 

 shrub, and can only say that it has elegant foliage, somewhat like a 

 Stephanandra. 



