102 FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE OF SUMMER. 



foliage of tlie Chinese cypress. No member of tlie Taxo- 

 dium family attains its full panoply of foliage in this 



climate before July. Cypress- 

 es should be employed above 

 all things for their summer 

 effect. Very graceful and 

 impressive are Southern cy- 

 presses, with their picturesque 

 masses of feathery foliage, but 

 unique and beautiful, almost 

 above all other trees on the 

 summer lawn, is a good speci- 

 men of the strange, foreign- 

 looking Chinese cypress. 



Most' spireas flower in 

 May or June, but there are 

 several that bloom during mid 

 and late summer, and have 

 therefore an important place 

 in such assemblages as we 

 are discussing. Spinea callosa 

 Wi^i^^y alba is perhaps the most note- 

 worthy, for, although it com- 

 mences to flower in June, it 

 has an abundant second bloom in July, which, added to the 

 flower's beauty and its rounded, low-growing form, make it 

 useful in different combinations of shrubs. S. Billardii, 

 Douglasii, salicifolia, and tomentosa are other varieties of 

 spireas that bloom late in summer. 



Weigelias generally are valuable June-flowering shrubs, 



CHINESE CYPRESS. 

 (glyptostrobus sinensis.) 



