TREES AND SHRUBS. 25 



honeysuckle. The effect of these seen against the 

 large dark green heart-shaped leaves is lovely. Good 

 plants are to be got either from inserting cuttings or 

 ripened seed in the Spring in a bed with a little bottom 

 heat. 



Clethra alnifolia 



(Pepper Bush] is just the sort of thing to have in 

 front of a shrubbery. It does not grow more than 4 ft. 

 high, and is a very neat little deciduous shrub, which 

 from July to September will be a mass of white waving 

 plumes of sweet-scented blossom. It is most happy 

 when in a cool moist loam and sandy peat ; and if it is 

 layered, or cuttings are inserted under a hand-glass in 

 the Autumn, one will easily obtain young plants. 



C let bra barbinervis 



(Pepper J3ush\ also known as C. canescens, likes 

 the same sort of soil as the C. alnifolia, and can be 

 increased in a similar way, but it is much larger, and 

 will grow into a lovely tree 30 ft. high, and bear up- 

 right racemes of white flowers in August and September 

 sometimes a foot long. 



Clethra canescens 



Syn. for Clethra barbinervis, q.v. 



