TREES AND SHRUBS 



JAPANESE LILAC, Syringa japonka. 



Gardens. July. This is the most robust species, being almost indifferent as 

 to soil, but preferring a sunny position. In appearance and scent it somewhat 

 resembles the Privet. 



Floivers creamy- white, very small, i-J in. diam., in a large, dense-flowered 

 thyrsus, 12 ins. or more long; Coi'oUa tube included in calyx ; Stamens exserted ; 

 Fruit a capsule, oblong, obtuse, smooth. 



Leaves broad ovate, with a round or sub-cuneate base, obtuse or acuminate, 

 glabrous above, dark green, thick, coriaceous, 5-8 ins. long, 3-3^ ins. wide, 

 midrib and veins pubescent beneath. 



A deciduous shrub, 15-25 ft. ; Braiiches slender ; Bark light red, occasionally 

 scaly ; Trunk and Branches marked with raised, white, oblong dots (lenticels) ; 

 Buds very small. 



Synonymous with Ligustrina amurensis v. Japonica. Native of China, 

 Japan, Manchuria ; introduced 1885. 



LILAC, Syiinga vulgaris. 



Gardens. May. " No flowering shrub, eitlier native or foreign, except the 

 Rose, has become more closely identified with English gardens and English 

 country scenes." — The Garden. 



Flowers lilac or white, very fragrant, in a terminal thyrsoid panicle ; Calyx 

 campanulate, irregularly 4-toothed, persistent ; Corolla regular, 4-partite, limb 

 slightly concave ; Stamens 2, inserted near apex of tube ; Ovary superior, 2-celled, 

 stigma bifid ; Fruit a woody capsule, ovate-oblong, much compressed, 2-valved ; 

 seeds about 4, with membranous wing. 



Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-cordate, petiolate, exstipulate, entire, acute, 

 glabrous, thin, paler beneath, 2-4 ins. by 2-3 ins. Autumn tint brown. 



A deciduous shrub, 8-20 ft. or more ; Branches grey to brown ; Tzcigs 



smooth, round, yellowish-grey to olive or brown ; Baric scaly ; Buds ovoid, 



quadrangular, glabrous ; IFood used for small turnery. 



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