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about five feet high, and never pass it without stopping to admire it. It 

 is a very slow grower. 



RE TINOSPOBA FILIFERA A UREA. — A golden shrub with long 

 pendulous threadlike branchlets. It appears to be a somewhat dwarf form 

 of R. filifcra. 



CERCIDIPH YLL UM JAPONICUM, introduced into this country 

 about ten or twelve years ago, grows in its native land to 100 feet high : it 

 is very hardy and grows rapidly. In its young state it is fastigiate in habit 

 and is valuable for the colour of its leaves, which when they unfold in 

 early spring are bright rosy red. 



CMSALPINIA JAPONICA.—A low spreading shrub with most 

 delicate and graceful foliage, introduced about twenty years ago, the 

 branches covered with very sharp hooked thorns. With me it is ten feet 

 in diameter, and only two feet high, the wood somewhat brittle and easily 

 broken. 



DA PHNIPHYLL UM GLA UCESCENS. — A strong - growing 

 vigorous evergreen with large glaucous leaves and dense habit ; the 

 flowers are small and inconspicuous, and are succeeded by small purple 

 berries. It makes a very fine specimen standing by itself on the grass. 

 A quick grower, eight feet high, with a circumference of forty feet. 



DAPHNIPHYLLUM JEZOENSE is a dwarf variety, of bushy 

 habit, about a foot and a half high. 



DA PHNIPHYLL UM MA CROPODIUM VARIEGA TUM. — A 

 distinct shrub, the variegation creamy- white. 



QUERCUS BAMB U SJE FOLIA . — An evergreen Oak which has 

 graceful pointed leaves of an olive colour, which, as its name implies, are 

 much more like a Bamboo than an Oak. 



STUARTIA PSEUDO-CAMELLIA.— A deciduous shrub with white 

 flowers, not unlike those of Carpentaria californica ; a very free grower. 



ENKIA NTH U S JAPONICUS.—k small hardy deciduous shrub 

 whose leaves turn in the autumn to a most splendid scarlet colour, more 

 brilliant than almost anything else in the garden. 



CLERODENDRON TRICHOTOMUM.—k handsome hardy 

 Japanese deciduous shrub bearing red and white flowers in September. 



I'lTTOSPORUM TO B IRA. — The native name of a Japanese ever- 

 green shrub with dark green smooth leaves and very fragrant white 

 flowers. 



BAMBUSA ME TAKE is well known now in our gardens, being one 

 of the most commonly cultivated sorts, owing to its fine bold growth and 

 its extreme hardiness. 



ABIES VEITCHIL— The best of all the Silver Firs, introduced 

 from Japan in 1HG0. The foliage is bright silver underneath, and when 

 moved by the wind is very beautiful. It is quite hardy. 



ABIES h'lUMA. A fast-growing Fir with fine deep green glossy 

 loaves. Introduced about thirty years ago. 



