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with very handsome large glossy dark green leaves and clusters of white 

 and purple flowers. 



DESFONTA INI A SPINOSA.—A very fine evergreen, sometimes 

 called the Chilian Holly, the leaves being very similar to the common 

 Holly. It produces its flowers very freely from July well into November. 

 They are tubular and of a crimson and yellow colour. The soil and climate 

 here seem to suit it well. The largest plant is eleven feet high and fifty feet 

 in circumference. It is planted in peat and loam. Young plants a foot 

 or two high flower freely. It is most easily raised from cuttings. 



RHAPHITAMNUS CYANOCARPUS.—A distinct prickly ever- 

 green shrub from Chili. The flowers are produced in May, and are of a 

 beautiful pale blue colour. It has dark blue berries in autumn. It grows 

 10 a height of seven feet and must have shelter ; if exposed to the east 

 wind the bark is liable to crack, and then the branch withers and dies. 

 Although I have had it out of doors five or six years, I should only call it 

 half-hardy. 



PS OR ALE A GLAXDULOSA is a tall-growing bush of open habit 

 with bluish flowers borne in spikes nine inches long. It is fourteen feet 

 high. It flowers in autumn and remains in flower for a long time. 



LIBOCEDRUS CHILENSIS.—A very fine and distinct evergreen 

 tree ; the leaves, of a light glaucous green, are scale-formed and compressed. 

 The whole effect of the tree is very delicate and graceful. It grows with 

 me to about fifteen feet high. 



PODOCARPUS CHILIAN A, better known as P. andma, the Plum 

 Fir, is a distinct and beautiful evergreen conifer, the leaves being linear 

 and flattened, dark green above and slightly glaucous beneath. It grows 

 here to twenty-five feet high. 



From China I have nineteen plants worth noticing. 



GLYPTOSTROBUS for TAXODIUM) IIETEROPHYLL US is 

 a most beautiful and graceful deciduous shrub of pyramidal form, with 

 light green foliage, changing to yellow in autumn. It grows to ten feet in 

 height in China ; with me it is five feet high ; and when in leaf it looks 

 more like a huge Fern than a shrub. Mr. Veitch tells me he thinks that 

 this is the rarest coniferous shrub in British gardens. More is the pity, 

 for it is certainly one of the most beautiful. It is never injured by 

 frost. 



SCHIZANDRA CHINENSIS.—A quick-growing wall climber, rather 

 like Rhus Toxicodendron, whose leaves change to a most brilliant scarlet 

 and yellow in autumn. 



ACTINIDIA KOLOMIKTA. — A very good twining plant with heart- 

 shaped leaves, five inches long, which change in autumn to white and red. 



LARIX KA EMPFERI. — A very fine Larch with leaves much larger 

 and handsomer than the common one. In spring they are of a beautiful 

 soft Lighl green colour, and in autumn a golden yellow. I have a very old 

 one which lias a spreading habit, and is only eleven feet high, while its cir- 

 oumference is ninety feet. It is perhaps a layered plant. 



OEPHA LOT. I XUS FORTUNE!.— A fine bush about six or eight feet 



