ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS AT CASTLE WELLAN. 419 



DESMODIUM A B GENTE U M. — A fast-growing deciduous shrub 

 with silvery trifoliate foliage and long spikes of rosy-pink flowers. It is 

 very distinct and handsome. 



ABIES BB AC TEAT A. —This stately Calif ornian Fir does very well 

 with me, though it is said to be difficult to grow in some places. It is a 

 fast grower, making about twenty inches annually. A specimen fifteen 

 years old is now twenty-three feet high and feathered down to the ground. 

 The young growth has never been injured by spring frost. (Fig. 108.) 



ABIES AMABILIS. — A very fine Fir with dark green foliage, silvery 

 underneath. 



FBAXIXUS VELUTINA, from Arizona, is a graceful quick-growing 

 deciduous tree, only lately introduced. 



GABBYA THUBETL — A handsome dark-leaved evergreen, a 

 hybrid from Garrya elliptica, a well-known Californian plant, generally 

 grown on a wall. It has catkins ten inches long. Colour of leaves 

 greyish green. 



From Chili we have fifteen good things. One of the best is Tricuspi- 

 daria hexapetala, which is better known as Crinodendron Hookcrianum. It 

 grows to about five feet high, the foliage dark green, the flowers a rich 

 crimson on long peduncles. This is a beautiful plant when in flower, 

 and we used to keep it in the house in winter, being afraid of losing it ; but 

 we have had it in the open for many years now. It flowers regularly and 

 is perfectly healthy. 



FABIANA IMBBICA TA . — An erect evergreen Heath-like shrub pro- 

 ducing white flowers in June. It does best in a sheltered position. 



PHILESIA BUXIFOLIA.—A small dark-leaved shrub bearing 

 flow r ers somewhat like Lapagcria rosea. It should have peat and leaf soil, 

 equal parts, in a damp shaded border. 



MITBABIA COCCIXEA.—A dwarf evergreen shrub producing 

 most brilliant scarlet flowers in succession for several months ; quite 

 hardy ; it forces well. We always have some large plants in 12-inch pots 

 to flower in the orangery in March. 



BEBBEBID OP SIS COBALLIXA.—A very pretty climbing ever- 

 green. The flowers are crimson, in drooping racemes. 



EUCBYPHIA PIXXATIFOLIA.— One of the finest of the autumn- 

 flowering shrubs. It has a profusion of large pure- white flowers with 

 yellow anthers. It grows to a height of eight feet here. 



ABUTILON VITIFOLIUM.~k quick-growing evergreen plant with 

 large Vinelike leaves and light blue flowers. It is very showy during the 

 summer. 



CESTBUM PABQUI—k late autumn-flowering shrub ; the flowers 

 in spikes, about six inches long, are of a creamy-white colour. 



EUGENIA UGNL — A dwarf evergreen from South Chili with dark 

 green leaves and edible purple fruit. 



LABDIZABALA BITEBNA TA . — A wonderfully vigorous climber 



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