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nr.sriMPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



than the last ami apt to be tinged with red outside, summer to 

 fall. IMHVN nr Uovu, JASMINE (470) (called by many names) 

 Jasminum grandiflbrum. 



* Flowers yellow ; leaves alternate and compound. (B.) 



B. Leaves glossy with 3-5 blunt blades; branches nearly round and 

 stil'f; llowers in small terminal clusters, summer. COMMON 

 S\VI:I:T YI.I.MAV JASMINE (471) Jasminum odoratissimum. 



B. Leaves thick, evergreen with 3-7 acute blades (rarely 1 blade), 

 MLfS more or less rolled; flowers bright in open clusters, sum- 

 mer and fall. ITALIAN YELLOW JASMiNE(472) Jasminum 

 hiiinile. 



* Flowers yellow ; leaves opposite, deciduous, of 3 rounded blades ; 



branches green, 4-angled, stiff, twiggy. Where hardy, Washing- 

 ton and South, it blooms well through most of the winter. 

 NAKED-FLOWERED JASMINE Jasminum nudifl6rum. 



Forsythia. The FORSYTHIAS or GOLDEN BELLS are very ornamental 

 early-flowering hardy deciduous shrubs which burst into bloom as the 

 winter is leaving, the bright yellow 

 bell- or star-shaped flowers fairly 

 cover the naked branches before the 

 hard frosts are over. The corolla ^ 

 has four long slender lobes. 



The tallest and most erect grow- 

 ing species, ERECT FORSYTHIA (473) 

 Forsythia viridfssima, to 10 feet, 

 has always simple, narrow, dark green leaves with 

 sharp notches from the center to the tip and some- 

 what 4-sided green branches with the pith in 

 plaits. 



The other species in common cultivation, 

 WKEI-IXG FORSYTHIA (474) Forsythia sus- 

 pe"nsa, has broader and shorter leaves which are 

 frequently 3-lobed and occasionally 3-bladed, and 

 weak almost trailing branches hollow in the center, 

 instead of with the plaited pith of the other 

 species. This has two well-marked varieties : the 

 trailing variety is called SIEKOLH'S FORSYTHIA 

 Forsythia SielmMi; the more erect and vigorous 

 growing variety with many 3-bladed leaves is 

 I',,i:n HE'S FI:-YTIIIA Forsythia Fortune!. The first, Forsythia Sie- 

 In, Mi, is well fitted to trail over arbors or fences, as its slender branches 

 grow 1'J feet or more in length. 



FIG. 473. Erect 

 Forsythia. 



