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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
Society, and is undoubtedly one of tlie best plants of the hardy class which has 
been introduced of late years. It is of shrubby habit, growing 8 ft. or 10 ft. high, 
with spreading and drooping branches, which have a peculiar fan-shaped mode of 
development, exactly adapting them for training against walls. The foliage is 
A ZARA MICROrilYLLA. 
exceedingly neat, Imt dense, of a dark shining green, and a bluntly ovate figure, 
the margins being toothed. The flowers are inconspicuous, so that the beauty 
of the plant must be sought in its densely-set glossy foliage. 
We know of no plant which could be more appropriately introduced to 
cover a wall, where a neat clothing is required, than this Azdva^ and there is 
