158 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



up. Cercis canadensis is an excellent, medium-sized 

 flowering tree, completely covered in early spring with 

 wreaths of deep pink buds. The dogwoods are de- 

 lightful trees for the purpose and all of the flowering 

 peaches, crabs, cherries and plums, especially the 

 double-flowered ornamental sorts. AraUa spinosa is 

 an enormously effective thing when, in mid-summer, 

 its gigantic leaves are crowned with great masses of 

 greenish white flowers and always the tamarix' 

 feathery foliage and dainty bloom is a joy and delight. 

 Cataipa iignonioides is a strong claimant for popular 

 favor wherever a conspicuous, showy tree is needed 

 and is especially good when seen above a mass of lower 

 foliage. 



For massing under banks, at the base of high build- 

 ings or in front of tall evergreens try the dwarf horse 

 chestnut, Aescvlus parviflora, with its long racemes 

 of creamy-white flowers. Equally desirable in this 

 position are the dwarf evergreens. The dwarf moun- 

 tain pine is an admirable little tree, rarely growing 

 over six feet in height, but frequently spreading over 

 the ground to twice that distance; trailing junipers 

 are also excellent and the yews, especially the Ameri- 

 can variety, which rarely exceeds five feet with a 

 diameter of twice that measure, and which, in season, 

 is completely covered with its bright red berries are 

 excellent things to plant in front of taller evergreens 



