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lemon-coloured racemes of flower before the leaves appear. But 
it does not get on with me, and ought, by this time, to be more 
important than it is. CC. spicata is a much finer thing in my 
opinion. They come from Japan, and like half shade. 
Colletia cruciata, a Chilian, which reminds us of Philibert 
Collet, the famous French botanist, hails from Rio de la Plata, and 
is a hardy and spiny foreigner unlike anything else in any garden. 
The cruciform growth resembles rows of miniature anchors ; the 
leaves are minute, few and far between; the flowers are innumer- 
able upon a successful specimen, and make the plant white in 
October. They are sweet ; but smell colletia with care, or he will 
stab you in a tender place. C. ferox and C. horrida live up to 
their names ; but C’. horrida in flower is dainty and pleasing. 
The dwarf Cryptomeria, is good for your rockery, and C. 
elegans, in its miniature form, makes a really fascinating subject. 
It appreciates half shade and abundant moisture. C. japonica 
nana should keep it company. 
Cyrilla racemiflora, from North America, goes its quiet way in 
peat and shade ; but its lauded spikes of white blossom have yet 
to appear. 
Cytisus in a myriad forms I should welcome, but there is no 
room for many of these beautiful stragglers. C. precox, however, 
is here, and C. purpureus incarnatus, with pink flowers, succeeds as 
a standard. C’. racemosus, the fragrant, attains to great size, and 
appears to be perfectly hardy in our Western gardens, and C. 
Ardoini, the smallest that I know, will prosper on a moraine with 
the least saxifrages. C. schipkaensis is a little white beauty from 
the Schipka Pass. This I have loved and lost, for the snails loved 
it even better than I. 
