TREES AND SHRUBS 



Flowers pale blue : Inflorescence racemose : Fruit a drupe. 



Leaves alternate, oblong or oblong-ovate, rounded at base, obtuse or acute, 

 glabrous. 



An evergreen climber, 10 ft.; or small shrub, 3-4 ft.; Brandies spinose 

 and straggling. 



Native of California and Oregon ; introduced 1848. 



Cea not It us papiJIosus. 



Walls. Somewhat tender, but very beautiful, its numerous branchlets 

 being clothed with small deep green leaves, and its flowers, borne in dense 

 clusters, being of a pleasing shade of pale blue. May, June. 



Flowers pale blue, in a terminal panicle ; peduncles naked ; Fruit a drupe. 



Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse both ends, glandular-serrulate, 

 upper surface glandular, viscid, deep green. 



An evergreen climbing shrub, 12 ft.; or small shrub, 2-3 ft. 



Introduced from California, 1848. 



Ceanothus rigidus. 



Walls. Requires sunny aspect. Forms a freely-branched shrub, clothed 

 with small, deep green leaves. April — June. 



Flowers purplish-blue, in a terminal panicle ; Fruit a drupe. 



Leaves alternate, obovate, cuneate, often emarginate, slightly serrated, 

 rigid, deep green. 



A deciduous climber, 6-8 ft. 



Introduced from California, 1848. 



CALIFORNIAN LILAC, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus. 



Gardens, shrubberies. Best on wall, but will grow as a standard in favoured 



localities. Its foliage is glossy, and its blossoms intensely blue. June — 



September. 



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