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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



like a mass of white or pinkish stamens, a quarter inch long. The fruit 

 is a hard, two-seeded seed vessel, or capsule, half an inch long. 



[Seeds (2 years to grow) ; layers (2 years to root).] 



Coryl6psis. Low shrubs with alternate oblique deciduous notched 

 leaves of a peculiar bluish green color. Flowers yellow, fragrant, in 

 nodding clusters before the leaves expand, in early spring. Hardy from 

 New York south and very attractive when in bloom. There are two 



Fig. 323. — Spiked Corylopsis. 



species in cultivation from Japan, neither growing over 4 feet high. 

 Fruit a two-celled capsule with two shining black seeds. 



[Seeds, in spring ; twig cuttings,] 



* Clusters numerous, less than 1 inch long of 2-3 flowers ; leaves ob- 



liquely heart-shaped (1-2 inches long). Few-flowered Corylop- 

 sis (322) — Corylopsis pauciflora. 



* Clusters 1-2 inches long of 7-10 bright yellow flowers ; leaves 2-3J- 



inches long. Spiked Corylopsis (323) — Corylopsis spicMa. 



Myrtus communis. The Classic Myrtle (324) is a handsome evergreen 

 outdoor shrub in the South, 3 to 10 feet high, with opposite simple feather- 

 veined entire-edged aromatic shining leaves. The flowers are 5-petaled, 

 solitary, axillary, white or pinkish (sometimes double), in July. The 

 stamens are numerous, in several rows ; the fruit are black berries with 



