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ovate-oblong, and pubescent on the undersides. It is a 

 valuable as well as ornamental little tree, and is worthy 

 of a great amount of coddling and coaxing to get it 

 established. There is a red-flowered variety, C. florida 

 rubra. 



C. KOUSA (syn Benthamia japonica). Japan, 1847. This 

 is a very distinct and beautiful flowering shrub. Flowers 

 very small individually, but borne in large clusters, and 

 yellow, the showy part being the four large, pure-white bracts 

 which subtend each cluster of blossoms, much like those in 

 Cornus florida, only the bracts are more pointed than 

 those of the latter species. Being quite hardy, and a 

 plant of great interest and beauty, this little-known Cornus 

 is sure to be widely planted when better known. 



C. MACBOPHYLLA (syn C. bracliypoda). Himalayas, China, 

 and Japan, 1827. This is an exceedingly handsome species, 

 of tabulated appearance, occasioned by the branches being 

 arranged almost horizontally. The leaves are of large 

 size, elliptic-ovate, and are remarkable for their autumnal 

 tints. The elder-like flowers appear in June. They are 

 pure white and arranged in large cymes. C. macrophylla 

 variegata is a distinct and very ornamental form of the 

 above, in which the leaf margins are bordered with white. 



C. MAS. Cornelian Cherry. Austria, 1596. One of 

 our earliest flowering trees, the clusters of yellow blooms 

 being produced in mild seasons, by the middle of February. 

 It is not at all fastidious about soil, thriving well in those 

 of very opposite description. It deserves to be extensively 

 cultivated, if only for the profusion of brightly-tinted 

 flowers, which completely cover the shoots before the 

 leaves have appeared. C. Mas aurea-elegantissima, the 

 tricolour-leaved Dogwood, is a strikingly ornamental shrub, 

 with green leaves encircled with a golden band, the whole 

 being suffused with a faint pinky tinge. It is of more 

 slender growth than the species, and a very desirable 

 acquisition to any collection of hardy ornamental shrubs. 



