Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



at the end of the branches. It was brought to this 

 country from the south of France in 1756, and asks for 

 sun and shelter. 



There are also several other Coluteas that are known 

 here, but the only one at all generally found in our gar- 

 dens is the Oriental or Bloody Senna, C. cruenta, or 

 C. sanguinea, or C. orientalis. It gains the two former 

 names from the fact that its flowers are a peculiar 

 yellowish-red, the same hue also tinging the bladders. 

 It is not quite so large a shrub as the Bladder Senna, 

 and its foliage is rather paler and smoother, but it is a 

 more vivid shrub altogether. It came to us from the 

 East in the early part of the eighteenth century. 



Soil and Cultivation. Coronilla requires moderately 

 good soil and plenty of sunshine. Colutea is not so 

 particular, and will thrive in very indifferent soil and 

 without a great deal of sun. Both may be propagated 

 by seed, Colutea preferably so, or by cuttings grown in 

 a cold frame. Colutea should be cut well back every 

 winter. 





