96 MY SHRUBS 



shy of blooming at all ; but the young foliage is most beautiful 

 and the shrub a worthy resident for a sunny wall. 



Purshia tridentata is a little American shrub with yellowish 

 blossoms of no great charm, but the triple leaves are neat and 

 distinctive. 



Pterocarya caucasica, of the walnut race, is a tree, and, unlike 

 some tardy growers, will soon show you that it is. But encourage 

 it in a corner for the sake of its youthful grace and beautiful ash- 

 like foliage. When it outgrows your garden patch, the fate of 

 other too pushing, too busy people may fall upon it. 



PyruSy in the shape of the flowering crabs, you cannot deny 

 yourself. P.floribunda and P. spectahilis should join you. I have 

 P. arhutifolia from North America, a small species, whose shining 

 autumn foliage turns to most splendid crimson before it falls. 

 P. '^ John Downie,* too, is a most splendid object in spring and 

 autumn. None fruits more handsomely than this. P. salicijolia 

 argentea pendula must be a fine thing when successful, but my 

 standard of this beautiful shrub sulked and never took kindly to 

 its new home. I must try again. 



Of tiny sub-shrubs, Pyxidanthera barhulata^ from New Jersey, 

 succeeded with me on a sunny rockery for a season. The Pine- 

 barren Beauty has a prostrate habit, and might easily be mistaken 

 for a saxifrage. Some dire disaster overtook my plant, and it died 

 suddenly from causes beyond my power to diagnose. I now have 

 it again in peat in a pan, which is plunged in a shady corner for 

 the greater part of the year, and blossoms under a cold frame during 

 April. It is then covered with buds like pink pearls, that break 

 presently into little white, fairy, five-petalled flowers. But Pyxi- 

 danthera does not derive from pixy. 



