470 CATANANCHE. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN, 



CEANOTHUS. 



C. speciosa (Catawba Tree). This is 

 a forest tree in its own country in America, 

 rather westwards in Illinois and Missouri, 

 and is little known in our country yet, 

 though promising to be a handsome tree as 

 it reaches 1 20 ft. high in its own country. 

 It deserves a very good position among 

 the best flowering trees for lawn or for a 

 group. Syn. C. cordifolia. 



C. Bungei and C. Kaempferi are two 

 other kinds known in gardens, both much 



so pretty that they are often planted by 

 those who are fond of flowering shrubs. 

 Some, however, are hardy enough on 

 light soils in sunny places to withstand 

 our climate, even if fully exposed as 

 bush plants. The majority form beautiful 

 wall shrubs. In all the species the 

 flowers are small, but this is compensated 

 for by their abundance, as they come out 

 in succession during the greater part of 

 the summer. As wall shrubs it is neces- 



Catalpa bignonioides. 



inferior in size to the foregoing trees, and 

 less attractive unless where collections 

 are desired. 



CATANANCHE (Blue Cupidone).C. 

 scerulea is an old border plant, about 2 ft. 

 high, flowering in summer ; fine blue, and 

 growing freely in borders and margins 

 of shrubberies. There is a white variety 

 as common as the blue and a bicolor 

 one. It is easily grown in any soil, and 

 quickly raised from seed. Compositae. 

 Italy and S. France. 



CEANOTHUS (Mountain Sweet}. 

 Though these beautiful shrubs of the Buck- 

 thorn Family are not quite hardy, they are 



sary to prune them in April, or as soon as 

 danger from frost is over ; and as all the 

 sorts flower on the shoots of the current 

 year's growth, from one to three eyes of 

 the preceding year's wood should be left, 

 reserving, or at most only topping, such 

 shoots as are required for filling up the 

 open spaces on the wall. All the species 

 are of free growth in warm garden soil, if 

 it is dry, and they will ripen their 

 wood best and flower most freely in 

 sunny exposures. As they are often 

 natives of a charming climate the 

 Pacific slope of N. America no one 

 should attempt their culture except in 



