TREES AND SHRUBS 



BOX- LEAVED COTONE ASTER, Cotoneaste?- buxifoUa. 



Gardens, walls. April, May. This is a vigorous and free-growing species, 

 doing well in any garden soil, useful for the rock garden or for covering 

 walls. Seeds may be sown as soon as ripe in gentle heat, or outdoors in 

 the following spring. 



Flowers white ; in a compact, short, terminal cyme, at ends of short lateral 

 shoots, 2-G flowered, usually 5 ; tomentose ; Calyx tomentose ; F?-ui.t a 

 drupe, usually in fives, globular, smooth, deep crimson, ripe in September. 



Leaves alternate, ovate or elliptical, entire, ciliated, acute, tapering towards 

 base, downy on underside when young, glabrous when mature, 1^ in. long, 

 f in. broad, petioles long. 



An evergreen shrtib, 4-12 ft. ; twiggy, straggling. 



Native of Neilgherry Mountains; introduced 1824. Also called Box-leaved 

 Rose-box. 



ALPINE COTONE ASTER, Cotoneaster frigida. 



Gardens. April, May. A very ornamental hardy shrub of robust 

 growth. 



Floxvcrs snow-white, in a small, terminal, corymbose cyme, woolly ; Calyx 

 woolly; Friiit a drupe, small, spherical, bright red, borne in great profusion, 

 ripe in September, persisting through great part of winter. 



Leaves alternate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, tapering towards base, 

 slightly crenulated, mucronate, coriaceous, glabrous above when mature, silvery 

 tomentose beneath, 4-5 ins. long, l.V in. broad, dark shining green above, 

 lighter below. 



A sub-evergi-een sin-ub or tree 15-20 ft., or more ; Branchlcts woolly when 

 young, smooth later. 



Native of Nepaul ; introduced 1824. 



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