Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



blossomer, for when quite in its infancy, even when 

 but a foot high, it will hang out gay pendants. It is 

 indeed an asset to any garden. A relative, Tricuspi- 

 daria dependens, also hailing from Chile, has white 

 blossoms instead of red, and is reported as fairly hardy. 

 They are close relatives of the lime, all belonging to 

 the family Tiliacece, and are propagated by layers. 

 Sandy loam with fibrous peat is the soil preferable. 



PIPTANTHUS NEPALENSIS is sometimes known as 

 the Nepal or Evergreen Laburnum, and is a handsome, 

 not really tender shrub of the Laburnum family, the 

 Leguminosece, blossoming at the same time as that tree. 

 Its value is, however, somewhat discounted by the fact 

 that its lemon-coloured flowers are apt to fall quickly, 

 as its very name implies Pipto, to fall ; anthos, a flower. 

 Its foliage is a bright light green, each leaf being cut 

 up into three rather large and plain leaflets. Both leaves 

 and flowers are of much stouter texture than the ordinary 

 Laburnum, and the pale-yellow, pea-shaped petals emerge 

 from a whitish woolly calyx of rather large sepals. The 

 ten stamens have thick filaments, while the pod is sub- 

 stantial and set on a short stalk inside the calyx. The 

 stalks of the flower clusters are also thick and unyielding, 

 and hence there is nothing of the graceful drooping that 

 characterises its more familiar namesake. The pod ripens 



in ordinary warm seasons here, and the shrub can be 



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