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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



B. variabilis 



Csesalpinia japonica 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



China 



Japan ; 

 Leguminosas 



^Calycanthus flori- 

 dus (American 

 Allspice) 



C. occidentals (Cali- 

 fornian Allspice) 



Cassandra calycu- 

 lata (Syn Andro- 

 meda calyculata) 



Cassiope fastigiata 



C. hypnoides 

 C. tetragona 



North America ; 

 Calycanthacese 



California 



North America 



Himalaya ; 

 Ericaceae 



Siberia 



North America 



and 



Northern Europe 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



Rosy- 

 purple, 

 Yellowish 

 throat ; 

 Midsummer 



Canary 

 yellow ; 

 Summer 



Purplish 

 red; 

 July 



Crimson 



White ; 



April and 



May 



Pink; 

 Summer 



White 

 White 



General Remarks. 



A free-growing shrub, 6 to 8 

 feet high, with large pan- 

 icles of flowers borne about 

 midsummer. As in the 

 case of B. globosa and B. 

 japonica, a warm soil in 

 the South of England is 

 necessary. 

 A very interesting shrub, ram- 

 bling, and with long flexible 

 shoots with red prickles. 

 The leaves are a foot long, 

 and of a pleasing green ; the 

 flowers, which are in partially 

 erect racemes, are about i 

 inch across, and bright canary 

 yellow in colour, against 

 which the reddish anthers 

 are conspicuous. It must not 

 be planted where it is likely 

 to get smothered. It has 

 stood out unharmed for 

 many years in the Coorabe- 

 svood Nursery (Kingston). 

 A deciduous, much-branched 

 shrub from 5 to 6 feet high, 

 well worth growing for its 

 highly fragrant flowers, about 

 a couple of inches in dia- 

 meter. It needs a fairly cool, 

 moist soil. 

 Much like the preceding, but of 

 more vigorous growth with 

 larger flowers. 

 An evergreen imder - shrub, 

 growing from i to 2 feet high. 

 The shoots are arching, and 

 the waxy Lily-of-the-Valley- 

 like flowers are suspended 

 from the undersides in con- 

 siderable numbers. It is a 

 pretty but by no means showy 

 shrub, and needs moist, peaty 

 soil. 

 A pretty little erect growing 

 shrub about a foot high, 

 suggesting a Club Moss 

 or a small Conifer, with 

 tiny bell-shaped blossoms. 

 It is suitable only as a rock- 

 work shrub in moist, peaty 

 soil. 

 Even smaller than the preced- 

 ing, and needs the same treat- 

 ment. 

 The tiny scale-like leaves of this 

 are arranged in fourrows, thus 

 giving the branches a curious 

 square appearance. Succeeds 

 under the same conditions as 

 the others. 



