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SOPHORA JAPONICA Chinese Scholar-Tree (Pagoda-Tree) 



Though capable of attaining greater stature, this green-twigged, deciduous 

 plant with compound, long-persistent leaves and summer-borne, pea-like, 

 white flowers is usually seen in cultivation as a small tree or large shrub of 

 not much over twenty feet in height. Its somewhat exotic aspect does not 

 detract from its value for use in home grounds. A form of columnar habit is 

 listed. 



Sorbaria sorbifolia URAL, FaLSE-SpiREA 



A coarse, spreading, deciduous, six-foot shrub which has become naturalized 

 in New England. Hardier than other species of its genus, its long, com- 

 pound leaves and large, white flower panicles in June or July make it useful 

 for planting in certain half-wild areas. Its white flower-masses have been 

 known to detract rose bugs from more valuable plants. 



SORBUS ALNIFOLIA 



An upright-branched, round-headed, sixty-foot, deciduous tree having sim- 

 ple, Alder-like leaves which turn orange or scarlet in autumn. The white blooms 

 of May are borne in few-flowered clusters, thus making the September display 

 of fruit less showy than that of S. Aucuparia. 



SORBUS AUCUPARIA European Mountain Ash 



This commonly planted relative of the Pear, Apple, and Chokeberry may 

 be looked upon as superior, in gardens, to the American Mountain Ash because 

 of its larger and more showy autumn fruits. In addition, its ultimate height 

 is somewhat greater and the leaflets of its compound foliage are more rounded. 

 Having been in cultivation for many years, numerous garden forms based on 

 habit or fruit and foliage characters are listed. 



Sourwood — See Oxydendrum 



Spicebush — ■ See Lindera 



Spindlewood — See Evonymus 



SPIRAEA BULLATA 



A dwarf Spirea having upright branches which reach to an ultimate height 

 of but eighteen inches. A rock-garden shrub with small, rounded leaves and 

 clusters of rosy-pink flowers in late summer or, occasionally, at other times. 



X SPIRAEA BUMALDA, "ANTHONY WATERER" 



This is the commonest and somewhat over-planted form of a hybrid group. 

 It develops into a two- to three-foot bush with flat, erect clusters of crimson 

 flowers in midsummer. Shearing off of fading flowers will induce a second 

 blooming later in the same season. 



spiraea decumbens 



A rock-garden Spirea which has few-inch, decumbent stems, small, toothed 

 leaves, and white flower clusters in June. 



Spiraea latifolia PlNK MEADOW SpiREA 



A brown-twigged, coarse-leaved, deciduous native shrub of rocky pastures. 

 With its two to five feet of growth surmounted in summer by open spikes of 

 white flowers, it can find a use in roadside development. 



SPIRAEA NIPPONICA var. ROTUNDIFOLIA BlG NlPPON SpIREA 



An eight-foot, vigorous, spreading but somewhat stiff-habited, deciduous 

 shrub with smooth, dark-green, rounded, late-persistent leaves. The showy 



