180 THE BLOSSOM CIRCLE OF THE YEAR 



Another evergreen tree that is very beautiful and hardy all 

 along the Gulf Coast is Cinnamomum camphora. While it cannot 

 be called a flowering tree, the dainty coloring in the young leaves 

 makes it worthy of a prominent place in the plantings wherever 

 it can be grown. All of the above trees are classed as broad- 

 leaved evergreens and are valuable, therefore, for their Winter 

 foliage as well as for their blossoms. 



The golden yellow balls of the Opoponax, Acacia Jam esiana^ 

 with their delicate fragrance, bring to the gardens of the far South 

 and Florida the aroma of the gardens of the Orient. With dainty 

 foliage, finely cut and sensitive to the touch, and an outline of 

 characteristic grace, this tree should be planted in the sub-tropical 

 sections much more often than it is, for its blossoms also project 

 their haunting odor on the Midwinter air. 



The early Spring-flowering trees that have small white flowers 

 are the White Fringe, Chionanthus virginica^ that we know in 

 the woodland roamings of childhood as Grand-Daddy's Grey- 

 beard; the Silver Bell and Snowdrop Trees, Mohrodendron caro- 

 linum and M. dipterum^ which tell by their common names the 

 nature of the blossoms; the characteristic and fragrant clusters 

 of the hardy Black Locust, Robinia pseudacacia; the Hillside 

 Thorn, Crataegus collina, the English and evergreen Hawthorns, 

 Cratxgus monogyna and Crataegus coccinea Lalandii; the Service 

 Berry and Shadbush, Ajnelanchier botryapium and Amelanchier 

 canadensis^ known to all plant lovers; with the later blooms of 

 the Yellow Wood, Virgilia lutea, and the most lovely of all, the 

 Sourwood, Oxydendron arboreum, which bears clusters of flowers 

 like Lilies of the Valley, all add daintiness to the landscape and 

 most of them fragrance as well. 



For the broader-petaled white blooms of early Spring the most 

 popular (and deservedly so) is the Dogwood in its various forms. 

 Cornus florida alba is most used in the South. The Hardy Oranges, 

 and the Citrange, grafted on the stock of Citrus trifoiiata^ are 

 most attractive, and the Starry Magnolia, M. stellata, the creamy- 

 white Horse Chestnut, ^s cuius parvi flora ^ and JEsculus Hip- 

 pocastanum^ with the Mountain Ash, Sorbus americana^ for the 

 colder sections, will round out the Hst. 



