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lemon-coloured racemes of flower before the leaves appear. But 

 it does not get on with me, and ought, by this time, to be more 

 important than it is. C. spicata is a much finer thing in my 

 opinion. They come from Japan, and like half shade. 



Colletia cruciata, a Chilian, which reminds us of Philibert 

 Collet, the famous French botanist, hails from Rio de la Plata, and 

 is a hardy and spiny foreigner unlike anything else in any garden. 

 The cruciform growth resembles rows of miniature anchors ; the 

 leaves are minute, few and far between ; the flowers are innumer- 

 able upon a successful specimen, and make the plant white in 

 October. They are sweet ; but smell colletia with care, or he will 

 stab you in a tender place. C. ferox and C. horrida live up to 

 their names ; but C. horrida in flower is dainty and pleasing. 



The dwarf Cryptomeria, is good for your rockery, and C. 

 elegans, in its miniature form, makes a really fascinating subject. 

 It appreciates half shade and abundant moisture. C. japonica 

 nana should keep it company. 



Cyrilla racemiflora, from North America, goes its quiet way in 

 peat and shade ; but its lauded spikes of white blossom have yet 

 to appear. 



Cytisus in a myriad forms I should welcome, but there is no 

 room for many of these beautiful stragglers. C. prcecox, however, 

 is here, and C. purpureus incarnattis, with pink flowers, succeeds as 

 a standard. C. racemosus, the fragrant, attains to great size, and 

 appears to be perfectly hardy in our Western gardens, and C. 

 Ardoini, the smallest that I know, will prosper on a moraine with 

 the least saxifrages. C. schipkaensis is a little white beauty from 

 the Schipka Pass. This I have loved and lost, for the snails loved 

 it even better than I. 



