Garrya
(named in honour of Michael Garry, of the Hudson's Bay Company). Including Fadyenia. TRIBE garryaceae of ORD. Cornaceae. A genus consisting of about eight species of ornamental hardy evergreen shrubs, of which seven are found in California and Mexico, and one in Cuba and Jamaica. Flowers male and female on different plants, arranged in elegant pendulous catkins, proceeding from near the apex of the shoots, and often from 4in. to 9in. long. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire or denticulate, penninerved. G. elliptica is the only species in general cultivation. It forms an elegant bush plant for the shrubbery border in the South of England, but is, perhaps, seen to the greatest advantage when grown against a wall or trellis. Propagated by seeds; or by cuttings of half-ripened wood, inserted in sandy loam, in August, and shaded from strong light until rooted.
G. elliptica (elliptical).* fl. greenish-white or yellowish. Spring. Berries black. l. elliptical, dark green and shining above, hoary beneath. h. 8ft. to 10ft. California, 1818.
G. Fadyenii (M'Fadyen's). male flowers, spikes branched, pendulous; sepals cohering at apex. female flowers, spikes simple, erect; style short, thick. Spring. l. elliptic, shortly apiculate. Jamaica.
G. Fremonti (Fremont's). fl. resembling those of G. elliptica, but catkins shorter and less decidedly pendulous. l. oblong or obovate, acute, slightly wavy at the margins. North-west America. (G. C. 1881, xv. 431.)
G. macrophylla (large-leaved). fl. green; racemes short, disposed in terminal, dense, few-flowered panicles. Spring. l. ovate-elliptic, 4in. long, 2 1/2in. broad. h. 6ft. Mexico, 1846.
G. Thureti (Thuret's). A garden hybrid, intermediate in general characters between its two parents, G. Fadyenii and G. elliptica, the first being the seed-bearer. It was raised in the Paris Botanic Garden about 1862. (R. H. 1879, 154.)