Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



berries in the genus. The rounded, shining leaves are 

 in two rows and, though deciduous, often hang on over 

 the winter into March days. 



Another excellent species is C. frigida, which, like 

 C. rotundifolia, comes from the Himalayan regions. It 

 bears with great lavishness flat clusters of milk-white 

 flowers, which later are succeeded by brilliant clumps 

 of scarlet fruit. The leaves are very large for a Cotone- 

 aster, and may be as much as five inches long, narrow 

 and dull green. The seed was first received into Eng- 

 land in 1824 by the Directors of the East India Com- 

 pany, from Dr. Wallich, a collector who did much to 

 make known the mountain flora of the northern region 

 of Nepal. This shrub is very hardy, obtaining its 

 name from the cold of its native climes, and forms 

 almost a tree if left free to grow. For a town garden 

 it is invaluable one of the best delicately gay in 

 summer, brilliant in winter, and shedding the dust and 

 soot of a town every autumn with its leaves. 



Most distinctive of all Cotoneasters is C. horizon- 

 talis, a low-lying shrub, whose branches grow with such 

 precision in pairs at right angles from the main stem 

 that, looking down upon the quaint outline, one is irre- 

 sistibly reminded of a fish's backbone. The leaves are 

 small and form a close-fitting vesture for the branches, 

 and the flower-buds are rosy ; so that from spring when 

 they stud the dark green branches, through summer 



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