72 TREES AND SHRUBS 



CoTONEASTERS. — Not enough use is made of 

 Cotoneasters in gardens. They grow well in almost 

 any soil, and are all marked by elegant or neat habit. 

 They are very pretty when in flower, but it is in 

 autumn, when laden with fruits, that they attain 

 their greatest beauty. One of the tallest of them is 

 C. frigida, and this bears a great abundance of rich 

 scarlet-red berries in flat clusters. In the nearly 

 allied C. bacillaris they are almost black. C. rotun- 

 difolia is a dwarfer shrub, but the finest of all the 

 Cotoneasters for its fruit ; it grows about 4 feet 

 high, and has small, very dark green, persistent 

 leaves ; the fruits are about the size and shape of 

 the haws of the Common Hawthorn, and are bril- 

 liant scarlet red; they are ripe in October, and 

 from then till March make one of the most beautiful 

 of winter pictures. In C. buxifoUa the fruit is very 

 abundant, but the red colour is not so bright as in 

 the preceding. C horizontalis, now getting to be a 

 well-known shrub, has very pretty, globose, bright- 

 red fruits, small but freely borne. C. Simonsii, of 

 medium height, has brilliant red berries, as has 

 C. acuminata, a near ally, but taller. The dwarfest 

 section of Cotoneaster, viz., thymifolia, microphylla and 

 its variety glacialis (or congesta), which are so useful 

 for rockeries, have all scarlet berries. 



Celastrus articulatus is a vigorous climber 

 from Eastern Asia, remarkable for the great beauty 

 of its fruits, which are golden yellow within, and 

 when ripe split open and reveal the shining scarlet- 

 coated seeds. C. scandens has orange-coloured seeds. 



