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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order. 



Colour 



and 

 Season. 



General Remarks. 



Coronilla j uncea (the 

 Rush-like Coron- 

 illa) 



^Corylopsis pauci- 

 flora 



South of France 



Japan ; 

 Hamamelideas 



C. spicata 



'Cytisus albus (White 

 Spanish or Portu- 

 guese Broom) 



Japan 



Spain and 

 Portugal ; 



introduced in 

 1752; 



Leguminosse 



Bright 

 yellow 



Primrose ; 



Spring, 

 before the 



leaves 



Also 

 cowslip- 

 coloured 



and 



scented. 



Before the 



leaves in 



Spring 



White ; 



May 



An erect shrub less than a yard 

 high, with rush-like shoots, 

 suggesting those of the 

 Spanish Broom, and also 

 almost devoid of leaves. 

 When in full bloom it is 

 decidedly pretty. 



This delightful little shrub, 

 when fully grown, makes a 

 dense bush, with branches 

 6 feet high. The leaves 

 are small, thin in texture, 

 prettily tinted when young, 

 and again in autumn. The 

 flowers are primrose-yellow 

 in colour and fragrant. They 

 are arranged from two to 

 four together in drooping 

 catkins from every node 

 on the previous season's 

 wood. Though it is quite 

 hardy in other respects the 

 flowers are easily damaged 

 by frost. 

 A shrub between 3 and 4 feet 

 high, and better known than 

 C. pauciflora. 



Abeautiful and popular Broom. 

 It grows with great rapidity, 

 and flowers bountifully and 

 regularly. A bush 6 or 7 

 feet high, in full flower is a 

 delightful picture, and one 

 never seems to tire of it. 

 Group it with the common 

 Broom. It is very cheap 

 and easily raised from seed. 

 Loudon says : "In good 

 soil it is of very rapid growth, 

 attaining the height of 5 feet 

 or 6 feet in three or four 

 years, and in six or eight 

 years growing as high as 15 

 feet or even 20 feet if in a 

 sheltered situation. Placed 

 by itself on a lawn it forms a 

 singularly ornamental plant, 

 even when not in flower, by 

 the varied disposition and 

 tufting of its twiggy thread- 

 like branches. When in 

 flower it is one of the 

 finest ornaments of the 

 garden." Loudon also says 

 that bees are fond of the 

 flowers. 



