FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 



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NAME. 



COUNTRY OR i COLOUR 

 ORIGIN AND AND 



NATURAL ORDER.! SEASON. 



j 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



h Hibiscus syriacus 

 ( Tree Mallow, Syn 

 Althaea frutex) 



China ; 

 Malvaceae 



White ; 



blotched 



red 



'Hippophae rham- j A British shrub, 

 noides (Sea Buck- ! chiefly in the 

 thorn) southandsouth- 



east coasts ; 



Eleagnaceae 



Flowers 

 inconspi- 

 cuous ; 

 yellowish 



* Hydrangea Hor- 

 tensia (the Hy- 

 drangea, Syn H. 

 hortensis) 



China and Japan ; | Deep pink 



Saxifrageae 



Summer 



and 

 Autumn 



so few hardy shrubs are in 

 bloom. It needs a well- 

 drained, loamy soil, that is, 

 however, not parched up at 

 any time, and a spot fully 

 exposed to the sun. There 

 are many varieties of this, 

 ranging in colour from 

 white to purple, both single 

 and double flowered forms 

 being represented. Totus 

 albus, white, is the best. 



A beautiful somewhat spiny 

 tree, or rather shrub, to plant 

 by the side of a lake, pond, 

 stream, moat, or anywhere a 

 free spreading shrubby growth 

 is desired. But it will suc- 

 ceed as well inland as by 

 water. A splendid group 

 may be seen near the pond 

 at Kew, and for many years 

 has made a beautiful winter 

 picture in the gardens. Every 

 winter the wood made the 

 previous year is thickly cased 

 with the bright orange- 

 coloured berries, which re- 

 main on the branches all the 

 winter, but later on, if hard 

 frosts are experienced, they 

 lose most of their brightness. 

 It must not be forgotten that 

 the flowers are unisexual, i.e. 

 those of one sex only are 

 borne on a tree. Male trees 

 therefore do not produce 

 berries, and to get fruit a 

 female and male must be near. 

 In each group, say of about 

 half-a-dozen plants, one plant 

 should be male and the rest 

 female. This is of the ut- 

 most importance, and see to 

 it before the plants leave the 

 nursery. The Sea Buck- 

 thorn is a large shrub or 

 small tree. A very pretty 

 standard tree results from 

 keeping it to a single stem 

 and removing the lower 

 branches. The leaves are 

 very charming in colour, a 

 silvery grey. The male 

 plant is of more upright 

 growth than the female. 



Better known throughout the 

 greater part of England as 

 a greenhouse plant than as 

 an outdoor shrub, but in 

 the extreme south and west 



