362 List of Shrubs 



//. prolificum Linn. (175) and H. densiflorum Pursh. (176), with 

 smaller flowers, are larger in stature (four to six feet), and usually 

 earlier bloomers. 



Ilex, sec Holly. 



Laburnum, sec Trees [List B]. 



Lagerstroemia. L. Indica Linn. (177), Crape Myrtle or Fringed 

 Myrtle, from China, a shrub (twenty to twenty-five feet), and L. flos- 

 regincB, from India, a tree (up to sixty feet), are hardy only in the South, 

 half hardy in the Middle States; with large, beautiful panicles of 

 unique bright pink and rose-color flowers, blooming from spring to mid- 

 summer, found planted in every doorj'ard in the South, and may be 

 used in protected places as far north as Baltimore. 



Maple, see Trees [List Bj (under Acer). 



Magnolia, see Trees [List C]. 



Myrica. Wax Myrtle. A large genus, of many species, three of which 

 from America are most useful, especially where infertile, barren, and 

 exposed, hopeless spots are to be quickly and permanently covered 

 with low shrubbery, for they are indifferent to the soil and to the sun, 

 hardy from north to south, especially in the ocean breezes, and have 

 a most tenacious root system. Although of small ornamental value, 

 their rich, dark green foliage and rounded form is pleasing, and their 

 bluish, waxy berries interesting. 



M. Carolinensis Mill. (178), Wax Myrtle, the most common, from 

 Nova Scotia to Alabama, is also the best for the purposes stated; grow- 

 ing from one to four feet, and on favorable sites to ten feet high, with 

 dark green, lustrous, fragrant foliage, and very waxy, bluish-white 

 berries hanging into winter. 



M. iComptonia) asplenifolia Linn. (179), the Sweet Fern, of even 

 wider distribution and of lower stature, excels the former by reason 

 of its fern-like foliage, and beautiful, delicate flowers, which render it 

 attractive. It is at the same time singularly adaptive. 



M. Gale Linn. (180), Sweet Gale, of northern range, also has a pleas- 

 ing, partly toothed foliage, and fragrant flowers, appearing before the 

 leaves; an interesting plant in the foreground of taller shrubs. 



Osage Orange, see Trees [List C] (under Toxylon). 



Ostrya, see Trees [List C]. 



Paulownia, see Trees [List C]. 



Rhus, see Trees [List B]. 



Ribes. Flowering Currants. Of the si.xty or seventy species, indige- 



