50 WOOD AND GARDEN 



Many flowering shrubs are in beauty. Andromeda 

 jloribunda still holds its persistent bloom that has 

 endured for nearly two months. The thick, drooping, 

 tassel-like bunches of bloom of Andromeda japonica are 

 just going over. Magnolia stellata, a conapact bush 

 some five feet high and wide, is wMte with the multi- 

 tude of its starry flowers ; individually they look half 

 double, having fourteen to sixteen petals. Forsythia 

 suspensa, with its graceful habit and tender yellow 

 flower, is a much better shrub than F. viridissima, 

 though, strangely enough, that is the one most com- 

 monly planted. Kerria, with its bright-yellow balls, 

 the fine old rosy Ribes, the Japan Quinces and 

 their salmon-coloured relative Pyrus Mauleii, Spiraea 

 Thunhergi, with its neat habit and myriads of tiny 

 flowers, these make frequent points of beauty and 

 interest. 



In the rock - garden, Cardamine trifoliata and 

 Hutchinsia alpina are conspicuous from their pure 

 white flowers and neat habit ; both have leaves of 

 darkest green, as if the better to show off the bloom. 

 Banwnculus montanus fringes the cool base of a large 

 stone ; its whole height not over three inches, though 

 its bright-yellow flowers are larger than field butter- 

 cups. The surface of the petals is curiously brilliant, 

 glistening and flashing like glass. Corydalis capnoides 

 is a charming rock-plant, with flowers of palest sulphur 

 colour, one of the neatest and most graceful of its 

 family. 



