n 4 MY SHRUBS 



peat should satisfy the plant with us, though elsewhere a cold house 

 might serve it better. 



Styrax is a handsome and fairly hardy deciduous shrub of 

 many species. I have but two, both of flowering size. S. Obassia 

 is a Japanese treasure, and grows to a small tree in Cornwall. Its 

 fragrant flowers are like snowdrops, and hang with grace among 

 the large leaves. S.japonicum has made a little bush on my sunny 

 rockery. The blossoms are like those of the larger plant in form, 

 but of smaller size. This prospers well enough and flowers freely. 

 *S. Benzoin, from Sumatra, yields the gum resin of that name. 



Sutherlandia frutescens, the Cape Bladder Senna, is a splendid 

 wall plant among us, but still rare in my experience. I only 

 possess strong and promising seedlings from a friend. They have 

 already flowered and fruited in their youthful state my picture 

 represents one not three years old but an established plant 

 familiar to me covers a wall with the fine grey-green foliage and 

 splendid scarlet racemes of pea-shaped flowers. The inflated pods 

 are like little Rugby footballs. Under the name of Colutea frutes- 

 cens, this Bladder Senna is well figured in the " Botanical Magazine " 

 (No. 181), where I find the shrub first came to England in 1683. 

 Worth is indeed but tardily recognised. 



Sycopsis sinensis is a very graceful dark evergreen with delightful 

 habit a most pleasing novelty. The rosy gold inflorescence adorns 

 the shrub in April. Half shade would seem desirable, for I had 

 a good specimen that perished in full sun. It may be a lime-hater, 

 but I do not know as to that. 



Symplocos cratcegoides, from Japan, is a deciduous climber for 

 a south wall. The neat foliage and very beautiful white flower 

 trusses feathery and light as swansdown make this a welcome 



