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List of Shrubs 



Three other species, C. glaucus Willd. (153), C. Icevigatus Willd. 

 (154), and C. occidentalis Hook and Arn. (155), are scarcely as hardy and 

 have few superior points, except perhaps difference in color intensity. 



Caragana, see Trees [List B]. 



Carpinus, see Trees [List C]. 



Chionanthus, see Trees [List C]. 



Comptonia, see Mjnrica. 



Celastrus. Bitter-sweet. This genus of some twenty-five species, 

 native from Asia and Australia, furnishes several low shrubs of a trail- 

 ing or climbing habit which makes them invaluable for effective cover- 

 ing of rocks, trellis, or posts. Their bright varicolored fruit, hanging 

 on through the winter, makes them even attractive at that monotone 

 season. They are most adaptive, filling any soil and situation, sun or 

 shade. Suckering freely, they can be readily propagated or renovated. 



C. scandens Linn. (155 bis) is our native species, common from 

 Canada to New Mexico, climbing to twenty feet, the crimson seeds 

 in the opening orange-yellow capsules continuing through the winter. 



C. orhiculatus Thunb. {articulatus) (155 tres), from Japan and China, 

 does not differ much from the former, but appears more prolific in foli- 

 age and fruit, which latter, however, is hidden under the foliage until 

 the fall. 



Corylus. Hazelnut. C. Americana Walt. (156), the American species, 

 has but little ornamental value, yet is picturesque and is useful for 

 planting along watercourses and other wet or moist, but also in drj' 

 places. 



C. Avellana Linn, purpurea (157), a variety of the European species, 

 four to six feet high, fit for dry as well as moist situations, excels by its 

 large, round, dark purple, almost black foliage, preser\-ing its color 

 even better than the blood beech, changing to lighter hues in the fall. 

 There is also a very ornamental variety, laciniata (i^ja), with deeply 

 cut leaves. Neither of them are more than half hardy at Ottawa. 



Crape M3ntle, see Lagerstroemia. 



Currant, see Ribes. 



Daphne. Of the forty or more species and varieties, widely dis- 

 tributed throughout the south temperate zone, at least three deserve 

 notice as being among the finest low shrubs for use in borders, massing 

 for color effect by foliage, flower, and fruit, and especially in rock work 

 and for refined planting. They are adaptive and shade-enduring. 



* D. Mezereum Linn. (158) Lady Laurel, Paradise Plant, from 



