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phylla, a native of India, is exhibited to-day; it has peculiar spiny 

 fruits, which when ripe exhale an odour somewhat resem- 

 bling that of the Pine-apple. B. macrophylla is another Indian 

 species, a tall-growing bush with long leaves and red flowers, 

 followed by peculiar long fruits. B. sericea, also from India, 

 is not nearly so well known as it should be ; its white flowers 

 are produced abundantly in the open, and the bush is quite 

 hardy. One peculiarity deserving of mention in this species 

 is the fact of its very frequently having only four petals. As 

 it is not mentioned in Mr. Webster's useful little book "Hardy 

 Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs," a book which never- 

 theless contains a considerable number of little known plants, I 

 presume it is even less known than I at first thought. B. 

 arkansana is distinct in colouring and a profuse flowerer ; it 

 makes a bush 6 or 8 feet in height. B. involuta var. Wil- 

 soni, from the Menai Straits, and B. hibernica, are two of our 

 native British Eoses which are worth a place in the garden, 

 the former on account of the beauty of its rosy-red flowers, and 

 the latter on account of its compact habit, glaucous leaves, white 

 or flesh-tinted flowers, and handsome fruits. 



Of the Thorns and Crabs I have no time to speak. I venture 

 to suggest, however, that much good work might be done if 

 gardeners and nurserymen exhibited fruiting branches of these 

 during the autumn meetings of the Society. The Cotoneasters are, 

 most of them, not only very ornamental when in flower, but still 

 more ornamental when in fruit. G. frigida has large corymbs of 

 white flowers followed by scarlet berries, and C. bacillaris white 

 flowers and black or purple-black fruits. C. horizontalis — like 

 the two species already mentioned, a native of the Himalayan 

 region — is very distinct in habit, the branches being arranged in 

 a distichous manner ; the flowers, particularly when in bud, 

 are reddish tinted. Pyrus arbutifolia and P. nigra are 

 pretty dwarf shrubs with white flowers; the first has red 

 fruits, and ripens late in the season, the other black fruits, 

 ripening early. The foliage of both assumes a rich red colour 

 in autumn. 



The Saxifrage family is rich in garden plants. The genus 

 Deutzia is well known, but a recently introduced Japanese 

 species, D. parviflora, is scarcely known as yet in this country. 

 It is a perfectly hardy shrub, and one of the best of a genus all of 



