TREES AND SHRUBS 



RED OSIER DOGWOOD, Comns stolonifera. 



Shrubberies. May. Likes damp spots, and makes a good cover plant for 

 game. 



Flowers white, inconspicuous, in a small flat cyme, pubescent, 1-2 ins. diam. ; 

 Petals ovate-oblong ; Fruit a drupe, white, globose. 



Leaves ovate, acute, pubescent, light green above, hoary beneath, 1-5 ins. 

 long, petioles slender. 



A deciduous shrub, 5-10 ft. ; usually stoloniferous ; Bi-anchlets glabrous, 

 bright red-purple, youngest pubescent ; Bark red-purple. 



Introduced from N. America, 1741. Syn. C. alba (Wangenh). 



VARIEGATED LAUREL, Aucuba japonka. 



Slu'ubberies. JMay. To develop the full beauty of its variegated foliage, 

 this attractive shrub should be planted in an open space where it may obtain 

 plenty of liglit and air. In order to ensure a plentiful supply of the scarlet 

 berries it is necessary to have the male plants in close proximity to the females, 

 or artificial pollination may be resorted to, placing among the pistillate flowers 

 some branches bearing staminate blossoms. If left to Nature, it will be 

 sufficient to have one male plant in tlie vicinity of several females. Propagated 

 by cuttings in sandy soil in sheltered border or cold frame, September to 

 November ; layering in autumn ; seeds in cold frame in October. 



Floivers white, small, inconspicuous, di(£cious, visited by pollen-eating flies ; 

 Inflorescence a branched dichasial cyme, terminal and axillary ; 3Ialcs, Calyx 

 gamosepalous, 4 minute teeth ; Corolla of 4 petals, epigynous, ovate to lanceo- 

 late, valvate ; Stamens 4, alternate with petals, filaments subulate ; Disk 

 4-angled and fleshy ; Females, Calya: with 4 minute teeth, tube ovoid or nearly 

 cylindrical; Petals A^; Ovary inferior, 1-celled, style short, stigma slightly 

 bifid; Fruit an oblong, scarlet drupe, \ in. long, 1-seeded. 



Leaves decussate, ovate lanceolate or elliptical, petiolate, exstipulate, entire 



or slightly toothed, acuminate or obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, green mottled 



with yellow, midrib prominent ; dead leaves brown. 



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