224 ©rnamental Sbrubs. 



The evergreen Japanese species (J?. Jiaponicus), which 

 is hardy as far north as New Jersey, is a very ornamental 

 shrub with dark, leathery foliage. The variety radicans is 

 useful for covering bare slopes and also in rockeries and on 

 walls. 



THE BLADDER-NUT FAMILY. 



Bladder-Nut, Staphylea pinnata. — A pretty shrub with 

 pinnate leaves and numerous drooping racemes of white 

 flowers. This and the three-leaved bladder-nut are fine in 

 mixed shrubberies. 



THE PEA FAMILY. 



Dyer's Greenweed, Genista tinctoria. — A small, bushy 

 shrub with long terete branches and lanceolate leaves ; the 

 whole plant green. Flowers numerous, bright yellow, late 

 in spring. Useful for sea-shores and sandy, sterile soil, for 

 naturalizing in masses on sunny slopes and in rockeries. 



Scotch Broom, Sarothamnus scoparius. — A taller shrub 

 four to five feet high with angular branches and small trifoli- 

 ate or simple leaves. Flowers, very showy bright yellow, 

 axillary. A fine plant for shrubberies in sunn)' positions, 

 or for naturalizing and planting in company with the 

 former. 



Purple Cytisus, Gytisus 'purpureas. — A dwarf, bushy 

 shrub with small trifoliate leaves and large axillary purple 

 flowers, very numerous in summer. This is an exception- 

 ally fine plant on the edge of a shrubbery, in sunny positions, 

 or in a rockery. 



All the above species do best in a sandy loam. 



