FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 355 



Name. 



Clethra alnifolia 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order. 



United States 

 of America 



C. canascens 



Colutea arborescens 

 (Bladder Senna). 



^C. CTuenta, Syn C. 

 orientalis, Syn C. 

 sanguinea. 



Coronilla Emerus 

 (the Scorpion 

 Senna Coronilla) 



Japan 



Mediterranean 



region ; 

 LeguminosEe 



Colour 



and 

 Season. 



White; 



August 

 and early 

 September 



Orient 



Southern Europe; 

 Leguminosas 



Milky 

 white ; 

 Summer 



Yellow ; 



May and 



June 



General Remarks. 



Reddish 



Yellow- 

 tinged red ; 

 May and 

 June 



removed of all from the typi- 

 calkind. Asarule the flower- 

 ing period of the common 

 TOiite Alder extends through- 

 out August and a little way 

 into September, at which 

 last-named period the variety 

 tomentosa is just unfolding 

 its earliest blossoms. As the 

 number of flowering shrubs 

 that are at their best during 

 the latter part of September 

 is very limited, the blooming 

 of this variety of the Clethra 

 at that time makes it valu- 

 able. The varietal name of 

 tomentosa is derived from 

 the whitish down on the 

 undersides of the leaves, 

 which serves to readily dis- 

 tingiush it from the other 

 forms. The flower-spikes, 

 too, are rather larger, while 

 the blossoms are as in the 

 others — white. The Clethras 

 all form rather loose-growing 

 bushes from 3 feet to s feet 

 high, and delight in a moist 

 soil of a peaty nature, such 

 as that in which Rhododen- 

 drons, Azaleas, and others of 

 that class flourish. 



A very handsome species 

 vrith dark-green leaves and 

 panicles of blossom. Well 

 worth attention, but is yet 

 rare. 



A perfectly hardy, free grow- 

 ing, deciduous shrub, reach- 

 ing a height of 8 to 12 feet, 

 clothed with pretty divided 

 leaves, and with a profusion 

 of pea-shaped flowers, suc- 

 ceeded by large inflated seed- 

 pods, which form a very 

 noticeable feature. These 

 pods are green, tinged with 

 red. The Coluteas are very 

 useful, as they will thrive in 

 dry sandy soils where many 

 shrubs would perish. 



After the manner of the last, 

 from which it differs in 

 its glaucous leaves, reddish 

 flowers, and deeper - tinted 

 seed-pods. It is also some- 

 what dwarfer. 



A free-growing bush 6 feet 

 high, with a profusion of pea- 

 shaped blossoms. It needs 

 a well-drained, warm soil. 



