ABSTRACT
The acclimatization of a plant is its adaptation to the climate and soil of a strange locality. Eight Fingersa, beautiful ornamental plant, of luxuriant tropical appearance, after its introduction into Europe, passed, like the Aucuba, from the hot-house to the cold-house and the flower-stand, and contests with it for the supremacy in popular taste and in ease of cultivation. There remain still to be noticed a number of Japanese plants in the gardens and public parks of the countries along the Mediterranean Sea. Besides the camellia, there is scarcely another of the numerous Japanese ornamental plants so popular and so widely spread as the Aucuba. Instead of enumerating the long list of Japanese ornamental plants, which would be without meaning to the novice, and superfluous to connoisseurs, the chapter limits to a few widely spread and popular species, giving several facts concerning them which may be of interest to lovers of flowers.
