FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 



351 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Naturat. Order. 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



C. hybrida 



C. Kaempferi 



A hybrid between 

 C. cordifolia 

 and C. Kagmp- 

 feri. Raised 

 nearly thirty 

 years ago by 

 Mr. John C. 

 Teas in Indiana, 

 U.S.A. 



China ; 



introduced by 



Siebold in 1849 



*Ceanothus ameri- 

 canus (New Jer- 

 sey Tea) 



Eastern United 



States ; 



Rhamnese 



*C. azureus 



Mexico 



White, with 

 yellow and 



purple 



markings 



on the 



throat 



Flowers 

 I inch 

 across ; 

 reddish- 

 brown and 



pturple 

 markings 



Whitish ; 

 July and 

 August 



Light blue 

 July and 

 August 



In the United States this 

 appears likely to prove the 

 finest of all the Catalpas, ex- 

 ceeding even C. cordifolia 

 in the vigour of its growth 

 and the size of its panicles. 

 Four hundred flowers have 

 been borne on a single panicle. 

 Generally, the plant is inter- 

 mediate between the two 

 species that share its parent- 

 age. 



Whilst this species — named in 

 honour of Engelbert Ksemp- 

 fer, who visited Japan in the 

 seventeenth century — bears 

 a strong resemblance to the 

 American C. bignonioides, 

 it is neither so fine nor so 

 ornamental a tree. It has 

 naturally the same rounded 

 habit, but is never so large. 

 The leaves differ in frequently 

 being more or less lobed. 

 Ksempfer noted this tree in 

 Japan, and until a recent 

 date it was regarded as in- 

 digenous to that country. 

 Recent travellers have, how- 

 ever, concluded it to be (like 

 many other popular trees in 

 Japan) of Chinese origin 

 solely. It is frequent in the 

 grounds surrounding Bud- 

 dhist temples in Japan. 



A deciduous shrub, 3 to 4 feet 

 high, that dies partially back 

 during the winter. The 

 flowers, which are borne in 

 good-sized racemes, are at 

 their best in July and August, 

 and on that account are very 

 valuable. It is one of the 

 hardiest of the Ceanothuses, 

 and in the South of England 

 it will flower as a shrub in 

 the open ground. 



This is not quite so hardy as 

 the preceding, and it cannot 

 be regarded as a shrub for 

 the open ground, except in 

 particularly favoured dis- 

 tricts. It is, however, a de- 

 lightful wall shrub. There 

 are many garden varieties of 

 this, mostly of Continental 

 origin, of which may be espe- 

 cially mentioned Glcire de 

 Versailles, blue ; Marie 

 Simon, pink ; and Indigo, 

 deep blue, very beautiful. 



