MY SHRUBS 65 
comes. KGelreuteria is a shy flowerer, but, hearing doubtless 
of my booklet, it performed this year, and I photograph a spray 
accordingly. K. p. japonica is a variety said to be less hardy than 
our plant. 
Laburnum is a small but popular genus, though some people 
have the greatest objection to its chill, yellow tresses. L. Vossii 
on a standard is very handsome, and the bloom trusses the largest 
that I know. Waterer’s laburnum is also a famous variant on 
the familiar form. 
Lagerstreemia indica is no good out of doors to me, and not 
very useful anywhere. This sub-tropical Chinese shrub must be 
very beautiful with adequate culture. It lingers under shelter of 
a wall with peat to live in; but the leaf falls early in autumn, 
and no flower has ever appeared. I may have had an invalid, 
and must try again. 
Lantana is frankly an indoor shrub, and has never greatly 
attracted me at that; but Lapageria, named after Josephine 
Lapagerie, Empress of the French, who solaced many an un- 
quiet hour with growing things, will smile on a sheltered wall. 
I have L. rosea, perhaps the hardiest, in a snug corner facing 
west, and, though no great grower out of doors, it fails not to 
brighten late autumn with its wax-like bells. Two perfect 
blossoms hung there on Christmas Day. At times of lengthened 
frost an ‘‘ Archangel ”’ protects the plant. 
Lardizabala biternata, which resembles a climbing berberis, 
is another admirable Chilian for a west wall, and also a winter 
flowerer. Like Lapageria it requires a cold house for perfection ; 
but will do its duty in the open air. The blossom is purple, 
and not particularly effective. 
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