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It has only one fault : it will not strike from cuttings. To increase it you 

 must propagate it by layering, or budding, or grafting. I have done so by 

 the hundred, and now my difficulty is to find places to put them ; for the 

 colour effect of a large well-grown plant is so striking that it must stand 

 absolutely by itself on the grass. For culture it requires to have the 

 longest shoots shortened at the end of January to induce a dense habit of 

 growth, and the soil we find best is plain loam, with a little spent 

 Mushroom manure and leaf soil added. 



JUNIPER US SANDEBI. — A dwarf bushy variety, with bright green 

 foliage, introduced by Mr. Sander from Japan. It is a slow grower, and 

 is not yet in commerce. It will be probably some years before it is 

 sent out. 



31 USA BASJOO. — A hardy Japanese Banana: it has been planted 

 out with me about four years, and makes leaves four feet long and twenty 

 inches in breadth. It has not fruited yet, but it is something to have a 

 Musa which will live at all in the open air. 



BROUSSONETIA PA P YRIFERA , a shrub or small tree allied to 

 the Mulberry, with pointed leaves, somewhat egg-shaped, and deep scarlet 

 fruit. 



The Japanese use the young shoots for the manufacture of paper, 

 which is of a whitey-brown colour and exceedingly strong. It is of rather 

 luxuriant growth, and makes a handsome specimen. It is quite hardy 

 here, and has attained a height of six feet. 



AKEBIA QUINATA. — A Japanese climbing plant. Its branches 

 hang down in graceful festoons from the trees to which it is attached 

 attracting attention by the fragrance of their dark purple-brown flowers. 



BER CHE MI A RA CEMOSA. — Another climber from Japan, a very 

 fast grower, with red bark. 



POURTHIsEA VILLOSA.—k small graceful tree with oval sharp- 

 pointed leaves and bearing clusters of white flowers. The foliage turns 

 to a beautiful scarlet colour in the autumn. It is about eight feet high. 



HOVENIA DULCIS. — A Japanese shrub of fast growth, having 

 large leaves and handsome white flowers. 



ERIOBOTRYA JAPONIGA.—k fine evergreen shrub with leaves 

 nearly a foot long by six inches wide, the Japanese Medlar. With me, 

 although it is twelve feet high, it has not fruited yet. 



KADSURA JAPONICA is a fast-growing twining plant with dark 

 green glossy leaves and white flowers. 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON, or Poison Ivy.— A very beautiful 

 climbing plant, somewhat like Ampelopsis Veitchii, but smaller and 

 more delicate in the foliage, which turns a reddish yellow in the autumn. 

 Professor Sargent says " it is one of the common plants in all the central 

 parts of Hondo and Yezo, where it grows to its largest size and climbs 

 into the tops of the tallest trees." It is so exceedingly dangerous and 

 poisonous that I doubt whether it ought to be allowed in any garden, at 

 least where ladies and children can have access to it. After touching the 

 leaves in a short time the victim becomes aware of irritation in the eyelids. 



