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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
February 9. 
the size in our more favoured climate. It is a native of 
the islands of Chiloe and Valdiria, and on the main 
laud as far as the Straits of Magellan, I believe. 
Small-flowered Berbery (Berberisparviflora, alias 
virgata, hut very different).—“ Jt is a true evergreen, 
perfectly hardy, and rather handsome.” 
The Loxa Berbery ( Berberis Loxensis). —From the 
highlands near Loxa, in Peru. Small flowers in erect 
clusters, and most beautiful foliage, deep shining green 
on both sides. Introduced by Mr. Veitch, through 
Mr. Lobb. 
The Wavy Berbery ( Berberis undulata). —From 
12,000 feet high on the Peruvian Andes; small yellow 
flowers, in small, round clusters; fine wavy leaves, and 
growiug to five or six feet high. 
Orange-flowered Berbery (Berberis Aurahuacensis). 
—A most stupid name for a fine thing in Van Houtte’s 
“ Fiore des Series,” from near the snowy mountains in 
New Grenada, at 9,000 feet elevation; and they are not 
quite sure yet if it is quite hardy. The flowers are in 
drooping racemes, and very deep yellow. 
Jamieson's Berbery {Berberis Jamiesonii) .— Another 
very beautiful species in the way of WaUiehiana, found by 
Hartwcg, Purdie, and Dr. Jamieson, of Quito, to whom 
British gardens are much indebted, and after whom 
Mr. Veitch named it, he having sent them the seeds. 
Mr. Glendinning had seeds of it from Mr. Purdie, who 
collected for Kew. The flowers are in upright panicles. 
It “ must certainly be a plant of great value in gardens.” 
The Whitened Berbery ( Berberis dealbata ).— 
Raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society, in 
1830. A stout plant, four to five feet high, with droop¬ 
ing flowers; a very well-known plant. 
White-backed Berbery (Berberis hypoleuca). —From 
the north of India, by Dr. Royle, to the Horticultural 
Society; flowered in 1847. “A fine, handsome, ever¬ 
green bush,” and “ one of the stoutest of the genus;” 
also, “ a remarkable fine species ” 
The Kushmul Berbery ( Berberis asiaticus). —I had 
several standards of it at Shrubland Park; it soon 
makes a fellow to match a nice standard of the sea 
Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides, and no garden should 
be without both of them, but as bushes, I would not 
give a fig for either of them. The Kushmul Berbery is 
the best hedge plant we have in England. A regiment 
of Cossack cavalry could not face it, or red deer either. 
It comes from seed, like Mustard and Cress, and grows 
as fast as any plant I know, also in any soil whatever. 
It is worse than the Black Thorn for poachers, in a 
game cover, and, altogether, a most valuable, or, rather, 
invaluable thing. There are many varieties of it 
from seed. 
The Chitra Berbery (Berberis aristata). — The 
native name is Chitra in Nepaul. “ The fine, close, 
bristle-pointed serratures of the leaves, the rich reddish- 
brown branches, and the long, loose, pauicled racemes 
of (bright yellow) flowers, are quite peculiar to this 
plant, and separate it clearly from every other.” The 
fruit is red, and hang on to Christmas. It goes under 
several wrong names, as affinis, jloribunda, Walli¬ 
chiana, &c. 
The Umbelled Berbery ( Berberis umbellata, alias 
I angulosa and gracilis). —A native of Kamaon, in the 
j north of India. Grows here about four leet high; j 
flowers in drooping racemes, and succeeded by oblong, 
j purplish fruit. “ The species is very pretty, in con- 
j sequence of its graceful manner of growth.” 
[ The Dyer’s Berbery ( Berberis tinctoria), so named 
in consequence of furnishing, like other species, a fine 
yellow dye. A slender, low-growing shrub, of which 
we know but little yet in cultivation; it was only lately 
introduced by the East India Company. 
The Ophthalmic Berbery (Berberis lycium). —“The 
real Lycium indicum of the Greek physicians,” and, 
“ to this day its extract is used against ophthalmia with 
great success, as in the time of Dioscorides.” A “ bad 
evergreen, but a pretty summer bush.” The flowers 
grow erect. 
Section 3rd.—Leaves pinnate or trifoliate; that is, 
the loaves coming in threes together, or else in pairs, 
along after each other, as in the common Holly leaved 
Berbery. 
Three-leaved Berbery (Berberis irifoliata). —From 
the North of Mexico, by Hartweg, to the Horticultural 
Society. A most beautiful, low-spreading, evergreen 
shrub, or you might call it ever-blue, for the leaves 
look like the blue Gum-trees of Australia in the shade; 
grows to three or four feet, and is quite hardy in 
Suffolk, and a very slow grower; a fine thing, but the 
beauty is in the leaves. 
Thin-leaved Berbery (Berberis tenuifolia). — Un¬ 
fortunately too tender for our climate; it is with us a 
graceful tall plant for the conservatory; everybody 
admires the tall plant of it in the large conservatory of 
the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick. What a fine 
thing to send out to Australia, with the Japan and 
Chinese species. 
Eiirenberg’s Berbery (Berberis Ehrenhergii). —Not 
to be had in England, but it flowered on the Continent, 
and is described in Linnasa xx. 45, from the temperate 
parts of Mexico. 
The Pallid Berbery (Berberis pallida). — From 
Mexico, and a very fine thing, but only a greenhouse 
plant in London, therefore out of my beat. 
Prickly Berbery (Berberis fascieularis). —Odd they 
should call this so, as it is not more prickly than any of 
the rest. A well-known low spreading bush, very like 
the common one, but more tender, and requires a wall, 
about London. Mr. Rivers got a cross between it and 
the common Holly-leaved, which is quite hardy, and 
intermediate between the two. 
The Holly-leaved Berbery (Berberis aquifolium ).— 
This is what I call the “ Common Evergreen Berbery;” 
but I well recollect the day when I was asked five 
guineas for a little plant of it; then a guinea; then nine- 
pence a-piece; and last of all a couple of shillings the 
hundred seedlings. The most useful plant in cultivation; 
will grow in pure sand and stiff clay anywhere and any¬ 
how. I once got a berry from it as large as a Black 
Hamburgh Grape, and, like the large Hamburgh I men¬ 
tioned the other day, I wanted to do wonders with it, 
but I fear it will never set the Thames on fire. This is 
the species of which are the immense specimens 1 men¬ 
tioned last spring, at Bank Grove, near Kingston; per¬ 
haps the finest in England. 
The Creeping Berbery (Berberis repens). —With all 
the looks of the last, this is only a low creeping rock 
plant, that never rises above a foot or so, but runs 
along by its creeping under ground shoot in all direc¬ 
tions. 
Chaff-stemmed Berbery (Berberis glumacea, alias 
nervosa). —There never was a better-named plant; for it 
seems as if made on purpose to chaff the best of us until j 
we get quite nervous for its slow growth, which is at the I 
rate of about an inch in five years. It is a neat, stocky, ! 
little plant, and well worth growing for all that, and j 
looks like a branch from the common just stuck in the 1 
ground. 
Nepaul Asii-leaved Berbery ( Berberis Nepaulensis, \ 
alias pinnata). —This long and much-talked-of Berbery 
was lately raised at Kew, and at the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, but I believe first flowered with 
Mr. Pinee, of Exeter. It was exhibited in bloom by the 
Horticultural Society in March, 1852, where I first 
saw it. A native of the north of India, and is believed 
to bo hardy enough for England. A most noble plant, 
with strong upright clusters of rich yellow flowers, which 
are succeeded by a dark blue fruit of an oval figure. 
