30 MY SHRUBS 



lack, by the way, is a very handsome wall plant ; and among 

 the best of the many splendid Japanese cherries may be named 

 C " ama-no-gawa,'' a shrub of upright growth, with lax clusters 

 of large and palest pink blossoms. For this good thing, and C. 

 soljatara, too, I have to thank that mandarin of the garden, Mr. 

 Reginald Farrer, from whom also came to me notable Japanese 

 tree paeonies — deep scarlet and crimson, rose and white. Cerasus 

 pseudocerasus — " James H. Veitch " — you cannot omit, and C. 

 sinensis pendula rosea is another great treasure among these shrubs. 



Oestrum or Hahrothamm will flourish here in some of its species 

 and the friend whose cherry-coloured Buddleia has been named 

 with praise, has given me a C. auruntiacum from Mexico which 

 thrives in the open. Its crimson clusters of bloom are strikingly 

 handsome during May, and should be oftener seen. 



Ceratonia siliqua^ the familiar Carob or Locust tree, does well 

 on a wall, and appears hardier than might be supposed ; but my 

 plant, grown from seed, is only a few feet high, and whether its 

 small flower will ever appear I know not. I remember masses of 

 its dusky, evil-smelling pods in Cyprus, and the sickly taste of the 

 pulp. It makes a handsome tree in the East, and its fruit, of course, 

 is of commercial value. 



Cercidiphyllum japonicum is a good, little, neat, deciduous 

 shrub without any special charm, and of Cercocarpus parviflorus, 

 from Mexico — a Fothergilla-like shrub — I can only report that it 

 languishes and wants to go indoors ; but Cercis siliquastruniy the 

 Judas tree, flowering as it does while still of shrubby size, must 

 be held a treasure. The bright rosy inflorescence hides every 

 naked bough sometimes, and, not content with that, my piece, 

 now grown to twenty feet, thrusts out clusters and tufts of flowers 



