Select List of Hardy Spring-flowering Evergreen and Sub-Evergreen Shrubs, suitable for Beds and Shrubbery Borders. Berry-bearing Evergreens, suitable for Beds and Shrubbery Borders in Winter and early Spring. Hardy Evergreen Shrubs with Variegated Foliage, suitable for Beds and Shrubbery Borders in Winter and Spring. Aucuba Japonica variegata. Aucuba Japonica mascula variegata. Aucuba Japonica limbata. Buxus (Box) argentea. Cupressus Lawsoniana variegata. Calluna vulgaris (Ling or Heather) variegata. Calluna vulgaris aurea. Ilex (Holly) lutescens albo-marginata. Ilex lutescens aureo-marginata. Ilex lutescens albo-picta Ilex lutescens ferox argentea. Osmathus ilicifolius variegatus. nanus. Rhododendron ponticum variegatum. Retinispora obtusa aurea variegata Santolina chamaecyparissus. Thujopsis Dolabrata variegata. Taxus (Yew) baccata variegata. Taxus baccata fastigiata aurea variegata. In addition to those marked w in the other selections, these shrubs are suitable for covering walls and trellises. Summer Climbers that can be easily raised from Seed, and that are suitable for Covering and Blooming on Walls, etc., in Summer and Autumn. Eccremocarpus scaber, orange, bunches of trumpet-shaped Cobæa scandens, purple flowers, elegant foliage. Cobæa scandens variegata, variegated foliage; very pretty. Loasa aurantiaca, orange. Lophospermum Hendersonii, rosy carmine. Lophospermum scandens, rose. Lophospermum spectabile, dark rose. Maurandya Barclayana, violet. Maurandya Barclayana alba, white. Maurandya purpurea grandiflora, purplish crimson. Tropaeolum canariense (Canary Creeper), yellow; fine for Tropæolum. See also Climbing Varieties in list of Tropæol- The whole of these are also suitable for planting round the sides of vases and baskets for weepers. They should be sown in February in a gentle bottom heat, and afterwards potted singly, two or three in a 4-inch pot, and forwarded in heat till strong and well rooted; then, when well hardened off, planted out about the end of May. Besides these, the following are suitable for planting round the sides of vases and baskets : For winter weepers, all the more moderate-growing hardy evergreen climbers are suitable for planting round the edges of vases and baskets, such as Ivies, Helianthemums; while many of the Saxifrages, Aubrietias, Alyssums, and evergreen Candytufts, etc., furnish sufficient variety of lesser things for the edges of vases and baskets and raised beds. The whole of the foregoing evergreen variegated and berry-bearing plants are exceedingly useful for mixed borders where winter and early spring effect is the object; and a good few genera can be selected from them to play an effective part in the winter and early spring, both in beds by themselves and in combination with what are known, and have been already treated of, as spring bedding plants. Where effect has to be studied immediately after the autumn flowers are removed, of necessity the chief portion of the plants used must be |