30 MY SHRUBS 
lack, by the way, is a very handsome wall plant; and among 
the best of the many splendid Japanese cherries may be named 
a shrub of upright growth, with lax clusters 
C’. “‘ ama-no-gawa,” 
of large and palest pink blossoms. For this good thing, and C. 
solfatara, too, I have to thank that mandarin of the garden, Mr. 
Reginald Farrer, from whom also came to me notable Japanese 
tree pzonies—deep scarlet and crimson, rose and white. Cerasus 
pseudocerasus—“‘ James H. Veitch ’”—you cannot omit, and C. 
sinensis pendula rosea is another great treasure among these shrubs. 
Cestrum or Habrothamus will flourish here in some of its species 
and the friend whose cherry-coloured Buddleta has been named 
with praise, has given me a C’. auruntiacum from Mexico which 
thrives in the open. Its crimson clusters of bloom are strikingly 
handsome during May, and should be oftener seen. 
Ceratonia siliqua, the familiar Carob or Locust tree, does well 
on a wall, and appears hardier than might be supposed ; but my 
plant, grown from seed, is only a few feet high, and whether its 
small flower will ever appear I know not. I remember masses of 
its dusky, evil-smelling pods in Cyprus, and the sickly taste of the 
pulp. It makes a handsome tree in the East, and its fruit, of course, 
is of commercial value. 
Cercidiphyllum japonicum is a good, little, neat, deciduous 
shrub without any special charm, and of Cercocarpus parviflorus, 
from Mexico—a Fothergilla-like shrub—I can only report that it 
languishes and wants to go indoors; but Cercis siliquastrum, the 
Judas tree, flowering as it does while still of shrubby size, must 
be held a treasure. The bright rosy inflorescence hides every 
naked bough sometimes, and, not content with that, my piece, 
now grown to twenty feet, thrusts out clusters and tufts of flowers 
