WINTER SHRUBS.
A succession of moderately mild winters has greatly increased the popularity of the winter flowering shrub in English' gardens. Viburnum fragrans—sweetest of all—becomes a rival to the cottagers' favourite, Daphne Mezereon ; and Conifera fragrantissima has only less popularity as a single flowering shrub than Conifera nitida as a hedge plant. -A little bush that has given me peculiar pleasure is a Chinese evergreen. It has grown fast and freely from a very small and rough cutting that travelled for a good many hours loose in a coat pocket. It is called osmanthus atmata, and is said by some to be the best of- the evergreen shrubs, and its small attractive flowers are autumnal. How much pleasure that little casual snip from a big bush has given One's gratitude, too, is evergreen. W. BEACH THOMAS.
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