. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 1029. THE SAN FRANCISCO SHOW. Esliibit by MafRorii'-Mi-L:in'n Co. Sec Issue Xiivember 18, I'nire '.tia i hardy here except in favorable posi- tions, and cannot be recommended for general cultivation; and of these plants we can depend only on the dwarf spe- cies of the Rocky Mountains, Berberis or Mahonia repens. This plant grows only a few inches high and the leaves are lighter green and less lustrous than the better known Oregon grape, Berberis or Mahonia aquifolium. Two little shrubs
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 1029. THE SAN FRANCISCO SHOW. Esliibit by MafRorii'-Mi-L:in'n Co. Sec Issue Xiivember 18, I'nire '.tia i hardy here except in favorable posi- tions, and cannot be recommended for general cultivation; and of these plants we can depend only on the dwarf spe- cies of the Rocky Mountains, Berberis or Mahonia repens. This plant grows only a few inches high and the leaves are lighter green and less lustrous than the better known Oregon grape, Berberis or Mahonia aquifolium. Two little shrubs of the celastrus family must be included in this list. These are Pachystima myrsinites of the Rocky mountains and Pachystima Canbyi of the mountains of West Vir- ginia. The former is widely distrib- uted and a common plant in its region. It grows to the height of from twelve to eighteen inches and its leaves re- semble those of some of the forms of the box. It is, however, less hardy here than its Virginia relative which in the Arboretum forms a broad mass of small leaves only a few inches high and does not suffer from full exposure to the sun. The different forms of the box-tree of the Orient_, Buxus sempervirens, ex- cept in exceptional positions, are not hardy in eastern Massachusetts, al- though west of Cape Cod many of them can be successfully grown, and only the little Japanese species Buxus Japonica seems really hardy here. This completes the short list of broad-leaved evergreens which can be grown in eastern Massachusetts un- less the heather, one or two species of heath, the stemless forms of yucca and the chamsedaphne, or leather leaf, can be called broad-leaved evergreens. This last plant, which is common in north- ern swamps, holds some of its leaves until spring. Although it grows nat- urally in wet ground, it does well when transferred to drier situations. Among the evergreens might almost be in- serted, however. Magnolia glauca. In the south this tree, which grow
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