Crossword-Solution: AUCUBA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Oaks, laurels, maples, birch, chesnut, hydrangea, a species of fig (which is found on the very summit), and three Chinese and Japanese genera, are the principal features of the forest; the common bushes being _Aucuba, Skimmia,_ and the curious _Helwingia,_ which bears little clusters of flowers on the centre of the leaf, like butcher's-broom.

The laurels, maples, and deciduous-leaved oaks, hydrangea and cherry, were leafless, but the abundance of chesnuts and evergreen oaks, rhododendrons, _Aucuba, Linonia,_ and other shrubs, kept the forest well clothed.

Oaks, laurels, maples, birch, chesnut, hydrangea, a species of fig (which is found on the very summit), and three Chinese and Japanese genera, are the principal features of the forest; the common bushes being _Aucuba, Skimmia,_ and the curious _Helwingia,_ which bears little clusters of flowers on the centre of the leaf, like butcher’s-broom.

Each of these wickets opened on a narrow path which ran among the shrubberies of box and aucuba to the left and right of the main avenue.

Cecil did not interfere, being indeed generally with her friends at Sirenwood, Aucuba Villa, or the working-room, in all of which she had the pleasure of being treated as a person of great consideration, far superior to all her natural surroundings, and on whom hinged all the plans for the amelioration of Willansborough.