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CEANOTHUS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



C. AZUREUS. From the temperate regions 

 of Mexico, where it grows as a straggling bush 

 about 10 ft. high. It is one of our prettiest 

 wall shrubs, flowering abundantly in dry sunny 

 situations, the flowers bright blue, from June 

 till September. C. pallidus is a handsome 

 variety, with pale-blue flowers. The result 

 of crossing with this species may be seen in 

 such lovely shrubs as C. Gloire des Versailles, 

 Arnoldii, Lucie Simon, Theodore Froebel, 

 Bertinii, President Reveil, Lucie Moser, and 

 others, all of which have flowers in large plumy 



foot-stalks from the sides of the young shoots. 

 Like the other kinds, it loves the protection of 

 a wall, on which it blooms in summer. 



C. RIGIDUS is a sub-evergreen, or in 

 sheltered places an evergreen, rarely exceeding 

 6 ft. in height, the branches stiff and wiry ; 

 the flowers, in clusters on the sides of the 

 young shoots, are deep purple, in April and 

 May. 



C. VEITCHIANUS is one of the best kinds, 

 the flowers of a rich deep blue, in dense 

 clusters at the ends of leafy branches. G. 



Catalpa bignonoides. 



clusters, some white, others rose, but mostly 

 of some shade of blue. 



C. DENTATUS is an elegant little evergreen 

 shrub, rarely higher than about 3 ft. The 

 flowers, which appear in May or June, are 

 deep blue, and continue the greater part of the 

 season. 



C. DIVARICATUS grows as a dense broad 

 evergreen bush of about 10 ft. high. It is a 

 free-growing handsome wall plant, flowering 

 from May to autumn, the flowers a bright 

 blue. 



C. PAPILLOSUS is a pretty species from the 

 mountains of California, where it is a densely 

 branched straggling bush 6 to 10 ft. high. The 

 panicles of pale-blue flowers are borne on long 



C. VERRUCOSUS forms a thickly branched 

 evergreen bush about 6 ft. high. As a wall 

 plant it is of free growth, and has a good effect, 

 the flowers coming in May and during the 

 summer months, borne in corymbs along the 

 whole length of the young branches, often so 

 profusely as to hide the foliage. 



CEDRELA. C. sinensis is somewhat 

 similar to the "Tree of Heaven" (Ailan- 

 thus glandulosa\ but this Chinese tree is 

 much more uncommon in gardens. In 

 some places, however, it might be a more 

 suitable tree, for whilst it has much the 

 same character of foliage and habit, it is 

 not so rampant a grower. The largest 



