' The plant from which our figure was taken was obtained 
from Messrs. Veitch in 1905. Since then it has grown 
excellently in a border of loamy soil, and is now a bush 
7 ft. high and 10 ft. in diameter. Having passed through 
the winter of 1908-9 without any injury, the species may 
be regarded as absolutely hardy. It can be increased by 
means of cuttings made from half-ripened wood. From the 
cultivator’s point of view, shrubby Spiraeas may be divided 
into two great groups, viz. those that blossom on the shoots 
of the current year, and those that do so on the shoots of 
the previous one. S$. Henryi belongs to the latter. What- 
ever pruning, therefore, may be necessary, should be done 
us soon as the flowers are past, and it should be a process of 
thinning out rather than a general shortening back of the 
branches, the leading idea being to produce long, uncrowded 
branches, and, by preserving a loose, open habit, thereby to 
display to the best advantage the numerous white corymbs 
with which they will in due time be garnished. 
Descriprion.— Shrub, of lax, spreading habit, 7 to 8 ft., 
or perhaps more, high; branches sparsely pilose the first 
season, glabrous or nearly so the second. Leaves on the — 
barren shoots 24-34 in, long, oblanceolate, glabrous or 
slightly pilose above, tomentose beneath, coarsely dentate 
near the apex; those of the flowering shoots smaller, #-14 
in. long, obovate or oblong, usually with three to seven 
teeth at the apex, but occasionally entire. Flowers 4 in. in 
diameter, produced in compound corymbs 2 in. across, which 
are terminal on short twigs springing from the branches of 
the previous year ; peduncles and pedicels pilose. Petals 
white, orbicular. Calyx with five triangular lobes. Ovary 
pilose, two-ovuled, Fruit in corymbs; carpels 5, $ in, long 
when mature, membranaceous, dehiscing ventrally. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, section of ditto; petals removel; 3, carpel; 4, fruit; 
5, single fruit :-—all except 4 enlarged. 
