ESCALLONIA RU BRA. 
RED-FLOWERED ESCALLONIA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ESCALLONEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chile. 
4 feet. 
September. 
Perennial. 
in 1827. 
No. 553. 
Escallonia, after Escallon, a Spanish traveller. 
The Escallonia rubra is an ornamental and valua - 
ble addition to our small shrubs, both for the flower 
garden, and for the foreground of the shrubbery. 
Trained against a wall or trellis its neatness is ex- 
hibited to great advantage; indeed its slender stems, 
being well covered with neat foliage, and bearing 
abundance of flowers during the summer, are pecu- 
liarly suitable to this mode of growth. Our minia- 
ture sketch of the whole plant is not given as an 
indication of its natural habit ; for left to nature it 
emits numerouslong slender branches from the lower 
part of the plant, and becomes a somewhat spread - 
ing bush. It was drawn from a plant which we had 
pruned to form a standard, and in such state its 
drooping branches have a picturesque effect. 
In a light and dry soil this shrub has proved per- 
fectly hardy; still it would be incorrect to assert 
that it will live uninjured by severe frosts in all si- 
tuations. If, however, in the depth of winter, loose 
litter be spread round the plant, its roots Avill be 
protected, and from these* it will shoot again with 
vigour. It may be increased by layers or cuttings. 
139 Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 3, 193. 
