CORN US. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CORYDALIS. 



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summer heat to thoroughly ripen the 

 wood, and so the flowering of this species 

 in Britain is a rare occurrence, although 

 it was one of the earliest amongst North 

 American shrubs to find its way to British 

 gardens. 



C. Kousa is a native of Japan, and a new 

 species, quite hardy, but needs to be 

 thoroughly well established and several 

 years old before it really shows to advan- 

 tage. The white flowers appear in May 

 and June. Syn. Benthamia japonica. 



C. Mas (Cornelian Cherry or Jew's 

 Cherry}. Although the individual flowers 

 of this species are small, they are borne so 

 freely by old trees that, perhaps with the 

 exception of the Witch Hazels, there are 

 no large shrubs flowering in February or 

 March which can vie with it, the 

 clusters of bright-yellow flowers being 

 very conspicuous on the leafless twigs. 

 Old trees fruit freely, and bear fruit half 

 an inch long or more, bright red and 

 individually as handsome as a Cherry. 

 On the Continent in many places selected 

 varieties are grown for the sake of the 

 fruit, which is excellent for preserving. 

 Amongst the forms are some with yellow, 

 bright blood-red, and violet-coloured 

 fruits, and another with fruit much 

 larger than that of the wild plant. 

 The Cornelian Cherry is a native of 

 Central and Southern Europe, and some- 

 times attains 20 ft. in height. There 

 are many fine-leaved varieties ; the best 

 are C. Mas variegata, a pretty shrub with 

 white variegated leaves, and C. Mas 

 elegantissima, with gold and green leaves 

 often suffused with red. 



C. Nuttalli is the western representa- 

 tive of the eastern C. florida, and is even 

 a more beautiful tree, in its native habitats 

 50 or 60 ft. high. Generally it has six 

 large, broad white bracts 2 in. or 3 in. long, 

 so that the so-called flower measures 4 

 in. or 6 in. across. It is one of the most 

 beautiful trees in the forests in many parts 

 of California and Oregon, and has 

 been recently introduced to European 

 gardens, and no difficulty is experienced 

 in its cultivation. 



C. stolonifera (Red Osier Dogwood] is 

 widely distributed throughout the North- 

 ern United States. It spreads and multi- 

 plies freely by prostrate or subterranean 

 shoots, and grows 6 or 8 ft. high ; the 

 leaves light green above and paler be- 

 neath ; fruit varying from white to lead 

 colour. In winter the growths, especially 

 those of the previous season, are of a bright 

 red-purple colour. In its native habi- 

 tats it affects wet places, but in Britain 

 I have seen it do well in dry ground. 



C. suecica is a native of Northern and 

 Arctic Europe, Asia, and America, in 

 Britain occurring on high moorlands from 

 Yorkshire northwards, and ascends to 

 3000 ft. It is a charming little plant, 

 flowering in July and August, with con- 

 spicuous, rather large white bracts, fol- 

 lowed by red drupes. It should be 

 grown in light soil or in peat in partial 

 shade in the bog garden. N. 



CORONILLA. Flowering shrubs of 

 the Pea family, consisting chiefly of shrubs, 

 but containing at least two really good 

 herbaceous plants, which are valuable 

 for the rock-garden and the mixed border. 

 They are C. iberica and C. varia. 



C. Emerus (Scorpion Senna). An 

 elegant loose bush, 3 to 6 ft. high, with 

 small pinnate leaves, which, in mild 

 seasons, remain green through the winter. 

 The flowers are reddish when first ex- 

 panded, but become quite yellow. It 

 blooms freely in early sum- 

 mer, and flowers again in 

 autumn. This is the only 

 bushy Coronilla that can 

 be well grown in the open 

 air generally, but in mild 

 districts C. glatica, a 

 beautiful shrub with glau- 

 cous foliage and yellow 

 flowers, usually grown in 

 greenhouses, may be 

 grown out-of-doors. S. 

 Europe. 



C. iberica is about i ft. high, and has 

 a dense tuft of slender stems that trail on 

 the ground or fall gracefully over the 

 ledge of a rock. It makes a pretty show 

 in early summer with its bright-yellow 

 blossoms, resting on deep-green foliage. 

 Its place is the rock-garden, where it 

 delights to send its roots down the side of 

 a big stone, to plenty of good soil, not less 

 than 1 8 in. deep. It also does well on 

 the margins of borders, but not so well as 

 on a bank or in the rock-garden. Cuttings, 

 inserted in early spring. Asia Minor. 



C. varia. A handsome plant, with 

 pretty rose-coloured flowers ; found in 

 stony places and on many railway banks 

 in France and Northern Italy, forming- 

 low dense tufts, sheeted with rosy pink, 

 their beauty marking them among the 

 weeds. Seeds. 



CORYDALIS (Fumitory}. A numer- 

 ous family, of the Poppy order, not many 

 of the species worth cultivation, though 

 some are important. 



C. bulbosa (Bulbous Fumitory}. A com- 

 pact tuberous-rooted kind, 4 in. to 6 or 

 7 in. high, with dull purplish flowers in 

 April, and a solid bulbous root, quite 

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