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hood of London. The mere omission, therefore, of numbers of 

 very beautiful trees and shrubs must not be taken to mean that 

 the ones mentioned in this paper are superior in any way to those 

 not mentioned. More than half an hour could be profitably em- 

 ployed in a review of garden Koses — not Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 Teas, and so on, but simply of the wild species, botanical 

 varieties, and little-known hybrids. 



After these remarks I proceed with the paper, merely stating 

 that I take the natural orders in botanical sequence for the sake 

 of convenience. 



The Mangolia family contains a number of the most beauti- 

 ful flowering trees and shrubs in existence. Fortunately, most 

 of these are pretty well known ; but the following Japanese 

 species are recent arrivals in this country, and therefore not 

 known to the vast majority of gardeners. M. Watsoni and M. 

 parviflora are both very handsome plants, and, thanks to Messrs. 

 Veitch, they have been introduced in considerable numbers ; this 

 firm exhibited flowers of both at the Temple Show. M. 

 hypoleuca is a fairly fast-grow T ing tree with noble leaves and 

 showy w r hite flowers. M. compressa — an evergreen species from 

 Japan — has withstood at Kew, without being in the slightest 

 degree affected by the cold, the rigours of the past winter 

 (1893-4), and bids fair to be an acquisition. Visitors to the 

 meeting held in this building more than a month ago will re- 

 member a very strange and abnormal member of the Magnolia 

 family, a basket of cut shoots of which was exhibited by Messrs. 

 Veitch. I refer to Trochodendron aralioides, figured in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, an evergreen shrub with the twigs termi- 

 nated by panicles or clusters of green flowers. This, like the 

 Magnolias above named, is also Japanese. 



The Berberis family contains but one genus of woody plants 

 which is deserving of general recommendation. The following 

 species of Berberis are well w r orth growing, even in select 

 collections of flowering trees and shrubs. B. angulosa and B. 

 concinna are both Himalayan : the former has rather large golden 

 yellow flowers, produced singly from the axils of the leaves, and 

 the latter is conspicuous on account of the silvery white of the 

 lower surfaces of its small leaves. B. congestiflora is a Chilian 

 plant introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Veitch, and figured 

 some few years ago in the Botanical Magazine and in the 



