Lomatia

Lomatia - Evergreen shrubs of slow growth, with finely-cut fern-like leaves so tough in texture that they outlast almost any other foliage. Several kinds are hardy in the milder parts of Britain, and deserve a more extensive trial. L. ferruginea, from Chili, has grown well for many years in the north of Ireland, at Castlewellan, making a bush 9 feet high and 27 feet in circumference, flowering freely, and never yet injured during the winter, though grown in the open during the past twenty years. L. longifolia, an Australian species, planted out in a bed of Rhododendrons at Forest Hill, near London, grew luxuriantly in the open air, flowering and bearing seed, and only twice cut to the ground by frost during twenty years. L. elegantissima, of New Zealand, has also proved fairly hardy, and with other kinds, such as L. filicifolia and L. propinqua, might be given a trial with the choicer evergreen shrubs in the sheltered shore gardens of Devon and Cornwall. The rather difficult increase of these shrubs has probably been against them.

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