44 FLOWER-GARDENING. 



CATALOGUE, Etc. 



Amorphafi-utkosa, Indigo shrub, produces handsome bunches 

 of purple flowers in June and July. 



Amygdalus nana^ Dwarf double-flowering Almond ; a very 

 beautiful slirub, about three feet high ; blossoms early in April. 



Aralia spinosa, or x^ngelica tree, about ten feet high ; flowers 

 in very large bunches, and continues a long while in bloom. 



Cytisus Laburnum^ or Golden Chain ; a most elegant shrub, 

 producing long racemes or bunches of yellow flowers in June 

 and July; there are two kinds, the English and the Scotch 

 Laburnum. The Scotch is the largest, forming a pretty large 

 shrub ; the English kind is greener, more compact, and by 

 some thought to be the handsomest ; they ought to be in every 

 garden. 



Calycanthus Floridus^ Allspice, or sweet-scented shrub, a 

 native of the Southern States ; the flowers are of a very dark 

 chocolate color, and the fragrance very much resembles ripe 

 strawberries ; easily kept when once introduced. This slirub 

 generally grows about five feet high in gardens, and blossoms 

 from May to August. 



Ceanothus Americanus, Red Root, or Jersey Tea tree ; a 

 plant or two in the collection, as it flowers in profusion, is 

 Avorth having. 



Cercis siliquastrum, or Judas tree. The flowers appear very 

 early in the spring, before the leaves come out, and make a 

 fine appearance ; as it grows rather tall, it is calculated for the 

 back row of tlie shrubbery. 



Colutea arhorescens, or Bladder Senna, having bunches of 

 yellow flowers in June and July, which are succeeded by seed 

 in a kind of bladder ; calculated for the back or centre row of 

 shrubberies. 



Cratcegus oxyacantha, the Hawthorn. It makes a pretty 

 appearance planted out singly in the back or centre row ; the 

 ilowers are very fragra::t ; it is sometimes called the I^ride of 



