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GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY-LXVI. 
Knightia has 3 species in New Zealand and New 
Caledonia. K. excelsa is a fine fastigiate tree, often 
growing to 100 feet high. In clearing it is hard to 
burn and get rid of. The colonists call it the “New 
Zealand honeysuckle.” Young plants have been used 
in sub-tropical effects. 
Banksia is Australian in 46 species. They are a 
fine genus of shrubs, many of which the colonists 
call “honeysuckles.” Sometimes they grow to 50 feet 
high, and such as B. integrifolia, B. marginata, and 
B. verticillata have beautifully marked wood. 
Dryandra is a genus of 19 species, mostly yellow- 
ish flowered. 
Pimelia in 76 species are Australian and New 
Zealand shrubs, several with neat habit and white. 
DAPHNE beagayana — Gardener' s Chronicle. 
whitish, pink or reddish flowers. P. spectabilis is in 
California; it does well; and P. decussata and others 
should be tried. The genus is in seven sections. 
Daphne has 80 species of evergreen or deciduous 
shrubs in Europe and sub-tropical and temperate 
Asia. D. mezereon is a well-known early purple 
flowering deciduous kind naturalized in the vicinity 
of Niagara and in parts of New England. It is found 
in Central Europe and Siberia, and was first scien- 
tifically found wild in England early in the eighteenth 
century, but sparingly and probably naturalized. It 
has a white, a double white and a grandiflora variety. 
The single light-colored form comes true from seed, 
but the other varieties must be grafted. D. cneorum 
is the creeping alpine kind which does so well in the 
middle states and northward. Both species are de- 
liciously fragrant. D. Genkwa, a kind from Eastern 
Asia, is less fragrant, deciduous at the north at least, 
and has blueish lilac flowers. D. Alpina and several 
other low kinds are also in gardens. D. Laureola, 
the “spurge laurel,” is an evergreen shrub of 3 or 4 
feet high, with deliciously fragrant night scented 
green flowers. It and its varieties are found in Med- 
iterranean regions north to the Pyrenees, and the 
British Islands. It is hardy at Stuttgard in Ger- 
many, where the winters are keen, and it has gone 
through British winters with a zero frost. Does any- 
body know where it is hardy in the states ? I received 
a catalogue from a florist ( I think of Wisconsin), who 
listed it as hardy, but I have seen what seems to be the 
Pyrenean var. near here — exposed and tender. It 
would be useful as evergreen underwood if 
it were reliable ; it prefers woods and hedge- 
rows and such places. D. odora is the Chinese 
and Japanese sweet Daphne and is said to have stood 
out during some winters at Washington, D. C., of 
course well sheltered. In California it is said to 
thrive in full sun, which is surprising, but then some- 
how you can never tell about the sun until you try. 
Dirca palustris is the “leatherwood,’ or, rather, 
leather bark, a branchy shrub of 3 or 4 feet, with 
yellowish flowers before the leaves in spring. 
Edgervorthia is in two species, from India and 
China. E. chrysantha is a fragrant yellow flowered 
shrub, probably hardy in the southern states. 
IVikstrocmia in 20 species are mostly tropical, but 
W. Alberti is said to be from Bokhara, and W. 
canescens from Japan. 
Stellcra in 6 or 7 species are from Central and 
Western Asia, mostly Persian Asia. Some are said 
to be white flowered sweet-scented herbs. I have not 
seen them to my knowledge. 
Gnidia in 40 species are S. African. 
Eleagnus has perhaps a dozen distinct species, 
some of which vary considerably. They are both 
deciduous and evergreen. The former are chiefly 
from Russian Asia, the Mediterranean countries. 
Northern China and Japan, and North America. The 
evergreens from sub-tropical Asia and Australia. The 
native kind E. argentea, is well named the “silver 
berry” from the fruit being covered with silvery scurf, 
as are also the alternately disposed leaves. It is hardy 
to Ottawa, Ont., and almost anywhere north. So also 
is the Asiatic form of E. augustifolia. I am not sure 
that the South European form is so hardy, but both 
are hardy in southern New England, both silvery 
leaved and admirable, especially when moved by wind, 
fragrant flowered, and the Russian form becomes 
quite a tree in Nebraska. E. parvifolia is regarded 
as synonymous with E. umbellata by some. It be- 
comes a tree of from 20 to 30 feet on the Himalayas, 
and seems to vary throughout the Eastern extensions 
of the mountain flora in China-Japan. Maybe um- 
bellata is a form of parvifolia in spite of the prec- 
edence given to names. The latter is somewhat more 
tender, taller, and so on, but so are Magnolias, Ca- 
mellia Thea, and others under like circumstances. 
E. macrophylla and E. glabra are among Chinese 
kinds deciduous in some climates, and evergreen in 
others. E. orientalis bears a large fragrant fruit used 
for the dessert in Persia, and the fruits of E. “ar- 
