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scattered singly all over the tree produce a most curious and pretty effect. 

 I imported this from New Zealand in a Wardian case some years ago, 

 and I believe it is a rare tree in this country. It is about six feet high, 

 and is very ornamental indeed. 



CORYNOCARPUS LAEVIGATA, the Karaka of New Zealand.— 

 It attains sixty feet in height ; a very handsome tree with large glossy 

 light green leaves and white flowers. The wood is used by the natives 

 for their canoes. 



ENTELEA ARBORESCENS. — An ornamental shrub with large 

 heart-shaped leaves and erect spikes of white flowers. It requires a good 

 rich loam. 



NOTOSPARTIUM CA R MIC HA EL EE. — The New Zealand Pink 

 Broom. When in flower, in August, few hardy plants surpass this in 

 beauty. Last autumn it was a perfect sheet of bloom of a most brilliant 

 mauve colour. It requires to be sheltered from strong winds, and if 

 planted in peat, leaf soil, and loam soon becomes a good-sized bush about 

 six feet high. 



OLE ARIA HAASTIL— This is now common. It bears its white 

 flowers in such profusion in autumn that it makes a very fine mass of 

 colour. It is eight feet high and fifty-two feet round. A most vigorous 

 grower. 



OLEARIA MACRODONTA has large and deeply indented leaves. 

 It flowers so profusely at midsummer that the branches are bent down 

 with the weight of the flowers. It is a very quick grower. 



OLEARIA STELLULATA.— From Tasmania. Flowers in spring ; 

 has greyish leaves and Daisy-like flowers. 



OLEARIA FORS TERL — A fine evergreen, with white flowers ; the 

 leaves are a yellowish green. It grows to a height of ten feet, and is 

 often injured by frost. 



OLEARIA N U MM U LARIFO LI A . — A dwarf variety with small 

 yellowish-green leaves and white flowers. 



MYOSOTIDIUM NOBILE. — The New Zealand Forget-me-Not 

 does well here in the open. The large glossy deep green leaves and 

 bright blue flowers which are borne in autumn are very handsome. 



PL A GIANTHUS LYALLII. A beautiful semi-evergreen shrub 

 from New Zealand growing eight feet high. The flowers are white, with 

 yellow stamens, and are borne in autumn. (Fig. 105.) 



EDWARDSIA GRANDIFLORA . — The New Zealand Laburnum 

 is ten feet high, and the same in circumference. The flowers, which are 

 in clusters, are bright yellow and very showy, in shape like a lobster's 

 claw. 



COROKIA COTONEASTER.—A dwarf bushy shrub, three feet high, 

 with very small leaves and wiry stems ; the flowers are bright yellow. It 

 is deciduous, and in winter becomes a dense mass of a dark purple colour. 

 It is very distinct, and quite unlike anything else in the garden. It 

 should be by itself on the grass. 



