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in spring, before the foliage comes, is covered all along 

 the branches with delicate pink flowers in great profu- 

 sion, G. 



The Oriental Judas-Tree {C. CMnensis; C. Japo7i- 

 ica in some catalogues), is another valuable kind, more 

 dwarf and compact than the American, with thick, 

 roundish leaves, of a dark-green color, and has larger 

 and brighter flowers, E. 



THE VIRGINIAN OR WHITE FRINGE. CMonantllUS 



Virginica. C. 



This is a handsome small tree or bush, with large, 

 glossy, acutely-elliptical leaves, and drooping racemes of 

 fringe-like, white flowers in the spring ; a great favorite 

 generally. 



THE DOGWOOD. Comus. C.-G, 



The Flowering Dogwood {C. florida) is a fine, 

 small tree, with glossy, grayish-green foliage, that turns 

 to a most attractive red in autumn. Its chief charm is 

 its large, pure- white flowers, produced in spring before 

 the leaves appear. The showy portion of the flowers is 

 really the bracts or appendages surrounding the clusters, 

 the real flowers being small and inconspicuous. Delights 

 in a well-drained, rich soil, C. 



The Weeping Dogwood, said to be a variety of C, 

 .florida, is described as being handsome, of upright 

 growth, and pendulous branches, with flowers and foliage 

 resembling the parent. 



The Round-leaved Dogwood {C. circinata) has 

 roundish leaves, downy beneath ; young shoots green, 

 blotched with purple ; small, white flowers in flat cymes, 

 G. 



Alternate-leaved Dogwood (C. altemifolia), a 

 beautiful shrub, but it may be trained in a tree form ; 



