Identifier: gardenillustrate91876lond (find matches)
Title: The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : (s.n.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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but it iaan exceedingly attractive shrub, and a great ornament to the conser-vatory or cool greenhouse. The date of its introduction into Euro-pean gardens is unknown to me, but it aeems to have been importedinto this country from Continental gardens. According to the Botanical Magazine, quoted above, it was first received at Kewfrom Berlin in 1862, and subsequently from several other places. 3. The Toothed-leaved Raphiolepis (R. ovata), Fl. Mag.,299.—Another form of R. japonica; indeed, this and the lasttogether, with the intermediate varieties, may be said to consti.tute that species. It is a hardier shrub than R. integerrima, fromwhich it diSors mainly in its minutely-toothed instead ot entireleaves, and in its larger flowers,which are white and tinged with pinkin the centre. As represented in the Floral Magazine, the flowersexceed an inch in diameter, and the bracts of the inflorescence are iuppiement to Tlie. Garden., Office. o7, Soulhamptoix Street,, Covent aarden, London W.G.
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RAPHIOLEPIS SALICIFOLIA. June 24, 1876.) THE GARDEN. 69? brown instead of being green and minutely fringed as in the fore-going. The flowers are succeeded by globular, glaucous, purpleberries, roseiubliug those of the Portngal Laurel. In a young statethe branches, bracts, flower-stalks, and calyxes, as well as the undersurface of the leaves, are clothed with a rasty tomentura. Itforms a shrub or small tree, and is common in woods aroundNagasaki, in Japan, and it sometimes grows in the clefts ofrocks on the sea-coast. This fact would seem to indicate thatit is a valuable shrub for the sea-coast in the south and west.At all events it is worth trying, for we have not a very large numberof shrubs that will stand the sea-breeze and spray without suffer-ing in appearance. Possibly, it may be as much at home in thevicinity of the sea as is the invaluable Euonymus from the samecountry. Moreover, it possesses the additional attraction of showy,agreeably-scented flowers. I believe this was intr

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