TREES AND SHRUBS 



A deciduous shrub, <i 10 ft.; very straggling; Stems glabrous or slightly 

 villous ; suckers abundant. 



Native of N. America; discovered in Carolina, 1724. Generic name from 

 Gr. a, not ; morphe, form, referring to the incomplete formation of the 

 flowers. Known in gardens by sixteen synonyms. 



GERARD'S INDIGO, Indigofera gerardiana. 



Shrubberies, walls. July, August. Requires loamy soil ; best in equal 

 parts of loam, leaf-mould and peat. An elegant, slender, much branched 

 shrub, suitable for planting against a south wall. In the open it is usually 

 cut back to the ground in winter. It is propagated by cuttings of firm 

 shoots 2-3 ins. long in pots of sandy peat under bell-glass in heat in summer ; 

 seeds are sown in well-drained pots of sandy soil in heat, February-March. 



Flowers rosy-purple, papilionaceous, in an axillary raceme of 12-20 flowers ; 

 Calyx oblique, teeth lanceolate, as long as tube ; Stamens diadclphous, anthers 

 apiculate ; Ovary superior, sessile, style short, stigma capitate ; Fruit a legume, 

 cylindric, straight, slightly hairy. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets elliptic-oblong, obtuse, pale grey- 

 green, glaucous and hoary beneath ; stipels setaceous, persistent. 



A deciduous shrub, 2-3 ft. ; much branched. 



Native of Himalayas; introduced 1842. 



CHINESE KIDNEY-BEAN TREE, Wistaria chinerms. 



Walls, arbours, sometimes climbing over trees. One of the most beautiful 

 of climbing shrubs, doing well in any good garden soil. Propagated by 

 layers of young shoots in summer, detached in following year. May, June ; 

 sometimes again in August. 



Flowers bluish-lilac, large, inodorous, in a pendant terminal raceme; bracts 



very caducous ; Calyx 5-toothed, 2 upper teeth short and sub-connate, lower 



ones usually longer ; Corolla papilionaceous, standard large, 2 parallel ridges 



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