40 THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



Even many old favourites have be'en allowed to 

 become unfamiliar. The white and yellow broom, 

 the Ghent azaleas (excepting perhaps the yellow 

 one), the barberry with its bunches of golden 

 blossom and coral fruit, the Buddleia with it s 

 glaucous leaves and honeyed balls like tiny oranges, 

 the Gueldres rose covered with its large white 

 tufts of snow, the scarlet ribes with its brisk scent 

 of black currant, are not to be seen as often as 

 they once were. The Judas-tree (Cercis), whose 

 little clusters of pink pea-blossom come out so 

 early in the year, and the bladder-senna, whose 

 curious paper-like bags of seed, hanging late on 

 in autumn, burst as you press them with a sharp 

 report, are still more rarely to be found. Of later 

 introductions the Weigelia alone seems to hold its 

 own, but the Desfontainea spinosa, looking like a 

 holly, but throwing out scarlet and yellow tubes of 

 blossom, or the diplopappus, with its leaves like a 

 variegated thyme, and its flowers like a minute 

 aster, are hardly ever seen. But there are many 

 more as good as these. 



For covering a house the large magnolia is 



