TREES AND SHRUBS 



SATIN FLOWER, Hedysarum mubyugum. 



Gardens. May — August. Requires a sunny position. Seeds ure sown 

 outdoors in April, and seedlings transplanted in June. 



Flowers rosy-purple or pale vermilion pink, in an elongated axillary, 

 erect raceme of 8-10 flowers ; Fruit a lomentum. 



Leaves alternate, iniparipinnate, leaflets 20-40, obovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 underside and petioles silky pilose. 



A deciduous shrub, 2-5 ft. ; loose-growing ; Bra?iches silky pilose, tortuous ; 

 Bark scaly; Twigs reddish-brown. 



Introduced from S. Mongolia, 1883. Generic name from the Greek, used 

 by Dioscorides ; specific name = consisting of many pairs of leaflets — L. multus, 

 many; jugum, a yoke, a pair; jugo, -are, I join. 



AMUR YELLOW WOOD, Cladrastis amurensis. 



Gardens. July. Does well in sandy soil in open shrubberies or against 

 walls. Propagated by cuttings of roots outdoors in spring ; seeds in ordinary 

 soil outdoors in March. 



Flowers greenish-white, papilionaceous, small, in a long, dense, erect 

 raceme ; pedicels short ; Fruit a legume ; seeds ripen only in hot seasons. 



Leaves alternate, iniparipinnate, leaflets 7-9, ovate-oblong, greyish-green, 

 silky pubescent when young. 



A deciduous shrub, 8 ft., or small tree; Bark olive-green, peeling in 

 old trees. 



Introduced from Amur Valley, 1878. 



VIRGINIAN YELLOW WOOD, Cladrastis tinctoria. 



Gardens. Does well in warm moist soil, in open shrubberies or singly on 



lawns. May. 



Floivers white, papilionaceous, in a dense drooping panicled raceme, 12-14 



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