Shanghai. An evergreen
climber, hardy in the south-west, bearing countless starry-white
flowers, most delicately perfumed in August. It is to be met with in the
majority of gardens, and in one it has covered the house porch.

RUSCUS ANDROGYNUS SYN. SEMELE ANDROGYNA.--Canary Islands. An evergreen
climber, valuable for its striking foliage. The leaves, or rather
cladodes, are over a foot in length, and are furnished with from
twelve to twenty pinnate sections of a glossy green. Penjerrick,
Falmouth, where it has borne its inconspicuous greenish-white flowers.

SOLANUM WENDLANDI.--Costa Rica. An evergreen climber, bearing clusters
of large lilac-blue flowers, 2-1/2 inches in diameter. The late Rev. H.
Ewbank, in whose garden at Ryde the finest specimen we have seen was
growing, considered it the best of all the tender climbers amenable to
open-air culture in the south-west.

SOLLYA HETEROPHYLLA.--Australia. Bluebell Creeper. An evergreen climber,
bearing drooping blue flowers. Tregothnan.

STAUNTONIA (HOLBOELLIA) LATIFOLIA.--Himalayas. An evergreen climber,
with oval leathery leaves, bearing in April clusters of greenish-white
flowers, delightfully odorous. A very common plant in the south-west.

STREPTOSOLEN JAMESONI.--Columbia. A handsome evergreen shrub, in great
request for clothing conservatory pillars, &c. It bears panicles of
orange-red flowers, and when in full bloom has a brilliant effect. A
plant about 7 feet in height is growing against the house at Trewidden.

SWAINSONIA ALBIFLORA.--Australia. An evergreen leguminous shrub, bearing
white pea-like flowers, well known in greenhouses. It is grown in
several gardens, and if cut down by sharp frosts breaks strongly again
in the spring.

TACSONIA EXONENSIS.--A hybrid between _T. Van Volxemii_ and _T.
mollissima_. Bearing bright rosy-pink flowers. Trewidden.

T. MOLLISSIMA.--Quito. A vigorous species, bearing pink flowers, with
tubes from 4 to 5 inches in length. Though Quito is on the equator, its
height above sea-level being 9600 feet, the temperature is not unduly
high. There is a large plant, which has had to be kept within bounds by
periodical pruning, at Rosehill.

CHAPTER XXVI

TREES AND SHRUBS IN IRELAND

It is not possible, without going beyond the limits of a volume of
comfortable size, to do anything approaching justice to the trees and
shrubs that are the glory of many gardens in the sister Isle. It is a
favoured isle for the growth of