TREES AND SHRUBS 



LINDLEY'S SPIRAEA, Spircea Undleyana. 



Gardens. July — September. One of the largest and most handsome 

 species, thriving best in a deep, moist soil, but also doing well on warm 

 chalky soils, especially near water. It produces suckers freely, and may be 

 easily propagated from seed. 



Flowers white, small, in a large terminal vanicle, very feathery, 2-3 ft. 

 long, overhanging ; Calyx white, campanulate, 5-toothed, recurved ; Stamens 

 numerous, filaments white ; Styles 5, capitate, spreading ; Fruit an etaerio 

 of follicles ; carpels coriaceous, cohering at base, completely splitting into two 

 halves, prominent smooth keel down back. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, 1 ft. or more in length, leaflets 11-23, 

 3 5 ins. long, 1±- in. wide, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely ser- 

 rated, glaucous beneath, membranous, petioles stout, purplish-red. 



A deciduous shrub, 4-15 ft., pyramidal; Branches ascending; Twigs green; 

 Bark rough ; Lenticels conspicuous ; Buds ovoid, scales green. 



Native of Nepaul ; introduced 1840. 



INTERMEDIATE SPIRiEA, Spircea media. 



Gardens. This forms a somewhat erect, freely-branched shrub, clothed 

 with rather pale glaucous green leaves, and studded with corymbs of white 

 blossoms. May, June. 



Floivers white, in a terminal corymb, 12 ins. or more long ; Stamens longer 

 than petals ; Fruit an etajrio of follicles. 



Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, slightly serrated, rarely entire, 

 hairy beneath, leaves on flowering and sterile branches similar. 



A deciduous shrub, 5-8 ft. dense ; Branches terete, sub-erect. 



Native of Europe and Northern Asia. Syn. S. confusa. 



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