110 HARDY ORNAMENTAL 



This is a very variable species, in so far at least as the 

 colour of flowers is concerned, and has given rise to 

 several handsome varieties. The typical plant has rosy 

 flowers, but the variety L. tatarica albiflora has pure-white 

 flowers ; and another, L. tatarica rubiflora has freely- 

 produced purplish-red flowers. 



L. TBAGOPHYLLA (China) is a rare species in cultivation, 

 but one of the most ornamental of the genus. It has 

 large entire leaves, fully 3 inches long, with golden-yellow 

 flowers, which turn reddish with advance of age. So far 

 it has proved hardy. 



L. XYLOSTEUM (syn Xylosteum dumetorum). Fly Honey- 

 suckle. Europe (England) to the Caucasus. The small, 

 creamy-white flowers of this plant are not particularly 

 showy, but the scarlet berries are more conspicuous in 

 September and October. The grey bark of the branches 

 has also a distinct effect in winter when grown in contrast 

 to the red-barked species of Cornus, Viburnum, and 

 yellow-barked Osier. It is one of the oldest occupants of 

 British shrubberies. L. Xylosteum leucocarpum has 

 white berries ; those of L. Xylosteum melanocarpum are 

 black ; and in L. Xylosteum xanthocarpum they are 

 yellow. 



The Honeysuckles are all of the readiest culture, and 

 succeed well in very poor soils, and in that of opposite 

 qualities. Propagated from cuttings or by layering. 



Loropetalum (Hamamelideae), 



LOROPETALUM CHiNENSE. Khasia Mountains and China^ 

 1880. This is a pretty and interesting shrub belonging to 

 the more familiar Witch Hazel family. Flowers clustered 

 in small heads, the calyx pale green, and the long linear 

 petals almost pure white. Being quite hardy and interest- 

 ing as well as ornamental, should insure this Chinese 

 shrub a place in every good collection. 



