

WOODY PLANTS FOR NEW ENGLAND 33 



IBERIS SEMPERVIRENS EVERGREEN CANDYTUFT 



A familiar, white flowered, evergreen edging or rock-garden plant. "LITTLE 

 GEM" is a neat, dwarf form for rockeries. 



ILEX CRENATA VAR. CONVEXA 



A cup-leaved and apparently somewhat hardier form of a variable ever- 

 green species which needs protection over almost all of inland New England. 

 Where guarded against winter sun and wind, and not subjected to extremely 

 low temperature, it will usually get through the winter with but the loss of 

 some of its soft, late-summer shoots. It is capable of becoming a bush some 

 twenty feet in height, with shining, persistent foliage and a winter crop of 

 quarter-inch black berries on pistillate plants. It will react to winter nipping 

 or to shearing by becoming quite dense in aspect. 



ILEX GLABRA Inkberry 



A loose-branched, native, evergreen shrub which, under the protection of 

 cultivation, settles down to be a particularly satisfactory plant with upright 

 stems, interesting shining foliage, and black fruits. Like most evergreen shrubs, 

 its foliage will at times burn in winter if subjected to sun and wind, especially 

 if the soil becomes deficient in moisture. Its fruits are attractive to birds. 



ILEX OPACA American Holly 



A familiar coastal-plain plant which does not do well inland. Where hardy, 

 it responds well to feeding and other practices of high culture. Strains are 

 now being selected for hardiness, foliage quality, and fruiting properties. 



Ilex rugosa 



A low, spreading or prostrate, evergreen shrub which has smooth branches, 

 lustrous wrinkled leaves, and small red fruits. For the larger rock garden. 



ILEX VERTICILLATA COMMON WlNTERBERRY 



This is the tall, gaunt, Black Alder of swamps which is familiar to all New 

 Englanders because of its large, paired, red berries which are much used in 

 early winter decoration and interesting to birds. It will grow happily on 

 higher ground, but plants of both sexes must be present if fruiting is to be 

 expected. 



INDIGOFERA KIRILOWII KlRILOW INDIGO 



Somewhat of a "die-back" shrub which has the ability to come from the 

 ground each spring to carry its rose-colored racemes of pea-shaped flowers 

 against some three feet of soft, locust-like foliage in June or early July. It is 

 a somewhat spreading plant suitable for covering large banks. 



Inkberry — See Ilex glabra 



Ivy — See Hedera and Parthenocissus 



Japanese Quince — See Chaenomeles 



Jersey Tea — See Ceanothus 



Jetbead — See Rhodotypus 



Judas Tree — See Cercis 



Juglans nigra BLACK WaLNTJT 



A large, handsome, nut-bearing, timber-producing tree of the deeper soils 

 of sections farther west, which is finding its way into New England in culti- 



