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used for furniture, felloes, and the shafts of the 
famous Zulu Kaffir “Asseghais.” It would proba- 
bly succeed in California. 
CORNUS KOUSA. 
Cornus , “dogwoods,” are in twenty-five species, 
from Peru, Mexico and temperate North America, 
the Himalayas, temperate Asia and Europe. The 
Himalayan, Mexican and Peruvian species are 
mostly evergreen; so also are some of the Japanese 
kinds under sub-tropical conditions. The most fa- 
miliar trees and shrubs are deciduous and remarka- 
ble either for showy involucres, handsome summer 
variegated, and brilliant autumn foliage, or deep 
red and yellow bark offering admirable contrasts to 
the snows of winter. Several bear showy fruit, 
and some few are herbs. The best variety of C. 
Florida with pink bracts was found by me in an old 
garden in Columbia, S. C., in 1876, and was col- 
lected By General Preston many years before; I 
took infinite pains to get this really deep pink 
form into commerce, and sent hundreds of grafts 
to one firm — only to be disappointed — for nothing 
grew but the stocks. Subsequently my friend 
Trumpy of Flushing did better and got a few 
grafts started about 1880, only to be destroyed by 
a weeding boy, who thought “they were too small 
and no good.” I also several times tried to get 
Mr. Berkmans of Augusta (and others of the South) 
interested, but he always said he could not suc- 
ceed in getting plants from the old Preston tree. 
The form at present in commerce has larger, but 
much lighter-colored, bracts. A great many hand- 
some variegated forms of the Asiatic and European 
species are in gardens, but our American kinds do 
not seem to have yielded many. The variegated 
C. Mas in particular is very handsome, and bears 
fruit as freely as the green form. Of the latter the 
finest I have seen in America is in New Jersey, 
planted by Downing shortly before his death. 
Aucuba has four or five forms in the Himalayas, 
China and Japan, and these during the last thirty 
years have broken into a multitude of varieties; 
about that time ago the male form was received in 
British gardens, and it was quite a fad with culti- 
vators to set a flowering male plant on a stand 
above the female plants, introduced seventy or 
eighty years before. In this way the large bushes 
had their flowers fertilized, and bore an abundance 
of berries among their ample and handsome foliage. 
These berries, when sown, germinated and sported 
into a great many forms, some plain green, others 
variously spotted and marked with shades of yel- 
low. Aucubas do very well in light shade from 
Richmond, Va., southwards through the uplands, 
and also in California. They sometimes endure 
several winters at Washington, but no old plants 
could be found there a few years ago, and experi- 
enced cultivators, such as the late John Saul, af- 
forded their plants protection. They can be studded 
among Ivies at the north, and may endure mild 
winters even at New York, but the precaution 
should be taken to keep a young stock from seed 
or cuttings. 
Garrya has eight species in the Pacific States, 
Mexico and the West Indies. Some botanists give 
California alone six or eight species. They are 
mostly neat evergreens, with their flowers in 
NYSSA SYLVATICA. 
