478 DECIDUOUS SMBUBS. 



with shrubs of dark and less delicate foliage. Height ten to eigh- 

 teen feet. 



The Caragana frutescens is a more shrubby species of the same, 

 growing six to ten feet high ; also noted for the yellowish hue of its 

 leaves. 



The Caragana grandiflora. — A pretty, quite low shrub, with the 

 same characteristics of foliage as the preceding. Height two to 

 four feet. Flowers yellow^ an inch long, in June and July. Pods, 

 brown, ripe in September. 



The Chinese Caragana, C chamlagu, is a low spreading shrub, 

 two to four feet high, with branches at first upright and then de- 

 cumbent. Grafted on the C. arborescens it forms, according to- 

 Loudon, " a singularly picturesque pendulous tree ; beautiful not 

 only when it is in leaf or in flower, but from the graceful lines 

 formed by its branches, even in the midst of winter, when they are 

 completely stripped of their leaves." Flowers yellow, or reddish- 

 yellow, in May and June. 



THE CALOPHACA. Calophaca. 



This is another species oi kguminacete, from Russia and. Siberia,, 

 with extremely small acacia-like leaves, composed of many leaflets, 

 and racemes of yellow blossoms, on long upright stalks. It bears 

 a reddish pod in August, which is ornamental. It is recommended 

 to graft this species on the laburnum, as it forms a shrub only two 

 to four feet high on its own roots. Flowers in June. 



THE CHIMONANTHUS, OR WINTER FLOWER. 

 Chimonanthus fragrans. 



A half-hardy shrub, from Japan, producing yellow and purple 

 flowers, an inch or more in diameter, of great fragrance, from No- 

 vember to March ; hence its name of winter flower. It flourishes 

 in the south of England, and will probably thrive on the Atlantic 

 and Gulf slopes south of Washington. It is considered one of the; 



