Description of Foreign Shrubs 
5. Cornelian Cherry. (Cornus mas.) 
LEAF : 2’-3', simple, opposite, entire, ovate or long-ovate, 
pointed. FLOWER: yellow, small (4 petals and stamens, single 
style), clustered, profuse, before leaves; often in full bloom April 
Ist in Park; fruit oblong, cherry-red; tall shrub or low tree. 
Europe. 
6. Forsythia. Golden Bell. (F. viridissima.) 
LEAF: 3'-5', simple, opposite, serrate, lance-shaped, deep 
green. FLOWER: m. golden-yellow, showy (corolla bell-shaped), 
deeply 4-lobed, lobes spreading, 2 stamens, profuse in small 
clusters along last year’s growth, March and April, before leaves ; 
branches spreading but not drooping. China. (Pl. IV.) 
7. Forsythia. (F. suspensa.) 
LEAF: 2’, simple, opposite, serrate, ovate, smaller, duller, and 
thinner than in last; branches slender, long and drooping. 
FLOWER : as in last, but earlier and less profuse, before leaves. 
China. (Pl. IT.) 
8. Forsythia. (F. Fortunei.) 
LEAF: 2’, simple, opposite, entire or obscurely serrate, oblong, 
lance-shaped, dull green above, glossy beneath. FLOWER: 
essentially as in last ; March, April. China. 
9. Azalea. (A. pontica.) 
LEAF : 2'-4', simple, alternate, entire, obovate or oblong, apex 
mucronate, thin, not evergreen. FLOWER: m. orange-yellow, 
slightly fragrant, 2’ across or more (corolla tubular-bell-shaped, 
5-lobed, tube sticky, 5 Jong stamens, 1 long style), in terminal 
clusters ; before leaves in spring. Native of the Caucasus. 
Io, Early-flowering Jessamine. (Jasminum nudiflorum.) 
LEAF: pinnate, opposite ; leaflets, 3 or 5, %’—3{/’, entire, ob- 
long, pointed. FLOWER: m. yellow (corolla salver-shaped, 6- 
lobed, 2 stamens, I style), single ; March, before leaves; droop- 
ing shrub, or trained asa vine. China. (PI. I.) 
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