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The early-flowered forms of Hy- 

 drangea paniculata (var. praecox) 

 which is the handsomest of the group, 

 is already in flower; and all the Amer- 

 ican species are blooming or just open- 

 ing their flower-buds. The most pop- 

 ular of these American plants is the 

 form of H. arborescens (var. grandi- 

 flora) with snow-ball-like heads of 

 white sterile flowers. There is a 

 similar abnormal form of another of 

 the American species, H. cinerea. 

 More beautiful, and one of the hand- 

 somest of the genus, H. quercifolia 

 will flower this month in the Shrub 

 Collection. This is an unusual event 

 for this shrub, which is a native of 

 the southern states, is frequently kill- 

 ed to the ground here. In the middle 

 and southern states it is an im- 

 portant and valued garden ornament. 

 Of the American Hydrangeas which 

 are perfectly hardy in the north the 

 handsomest is H. radiata, a native of 

 mountain slopes in North and South 

 Carolina, once a popular garden plant 

 but now rarely cultivated. It is a 

 broad, round-topped shrub with leaves 

 of ample size, dark green above and 

 silvery white below, and broad flat 

 heads of flowers surrounded by a ring 

 of white neutral flowers. 



Amorpha canescens, the Lead Plant, 

 is beginning to open its small violet- 

 colored flowers arranged in long, nar- 

 row clustered spikes, which are con- 

 spicuous by the contrast with the 

 color of the leaves and branches and 

 are thickly covered white gray down. 

 This plant is a native of the Missis- 

 sippi valley where it grows on low 

 prairies from Indiana and Minnesota 

 to Texas. 



Aesculus parviflora occupies an im- 

 portant place among summer flower- 

 ing shrubs. This native of the south- 

 eastern states is hardy in the north. 



and with abundant space and in good 

 soil will spread into great thickets 

 with stems seven or eight feet high. 

 Toward the end of July it will be 

 covered with its tall, narrow, erect 

 spikes of small white flowers which 

 stand up well above the foliage. 



Cornus paucinervis suffered some- 

 what in the cold winter of 1917-18, as 

 was to have been expected, as it grows 

 naturally at low levels in central 

 China where the Orange flourishes 

 and rarely ascends to altitudes of 

 three thousand feet. It has recov- 

 ered, however, and is now in flower. 

 If it were a little hardier it would be 

 one of the best summer flowering 

 shrubs introduced by Wilson from 

 China. It is a shrub five or six feet 

 tall with erect stems, small, narrow, 

 pointed leaves with only two or three 

 pairs of prominent veins, small clust- 

 ers of white flowers and black fruits. 



THE PAGODA TREE. 



Sophora japonica, sometimes called 

 the Pagoda-tree, is in spite of its name 

 a Chinese tree which has been culti- 

 vated in Japan for more than a thou- 

 sand years, and as it first reached 

 Europe from that country was long 

 considered a native of Japan. It is a 

 round-headed tree which in Peking, 

 where it has been much planted, has 

 grown to a large size and looks from 

 a distance like an oak-tree. The leaves 

 and branchlets are dark green, and the 

 small, creamy white, pea-shaped flow- 

 ers, which open here in August, are 

 produced in great numbers in narrow, 

 erect, terminal clusters. There are 

 also in the collection the form with 

 long pendent branches (var. pandulai 

 which rarely flowers, and a young 

 plant of the form with erect branches 

 i var. pyramidalis). 



