FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 



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Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Colour 



and 

 Season. 



General Remarks. 



Laburnum (Cytisus) 

 vulgare (Golden 

 Rain or Chain) 



'Ledum latifolium 

 (Labrador Tea) 



L. palustre (Marsh 

 Ledum) 



Leiophyllum buxi- 

 toliimi (Sand 



Myrtle), (Syn L. 

 thymifolium) 



Lespedeza bicolor 



'L. Sieboldi (Syn 

 Desmodium pen- 

 duliflorum) 



Leycesteria tormosa 



Northern portion 

 ofNorth Ameri- 

 ca ; Ericaceae 



Northern part of 

 Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere 



New Jersey and 

 Virginia ; Eri- 

 caceae 



Japan ; 

 Leguminosae 



China and Japan 



White; 

 late April 



White, 

 tinged 



pink 

 White; 



May 



Rosy red ; 

 July 



Reddish 



purple ; 



September 



CaprifoliaceEe ; 

 Temperate 

 Himalaya 



Purplish 



white, and 



purple 



bracts 



pureus, in which the flowers 

 are of a reddish purple, slight- 

 ly tinged with buff, and are 

 produced in pendent spikes 

 eight inches or more long. 

 It was originated in Paris, in 

 the nursery of M. Adam in 

 1828 ; it was introduced into 

 England about 1829, and has 

 been a good deal cultivated." 

 We noticed a tree of it in a 

 hedgerow near Burnham 

 Common, Slough. It is a 

 strange tree. Some branches 

 will perhaps bear entirely yel- 

 low flowers, like those of the 

 common laburnum and others 

 like Cytisus purpureus, varied 

 by a flower that shows the 

 characters of both parents. It 

 is more curious than beautiful. 



A much-branched shrub 2 to 3 

 feet high, and when in bloom 

 covered with its rounded clus- 

 ters of white blossoms. It 

 needs a cool moist peaty soil, 

 and given this it is very attrac- 

 tive when in bloom. 



Much like the last, except that 

 it is rather smaller, and the 

 blossoms tinged with pink. 



A compact little evergreen shrub 

 about a foot high. Every 

 twig, however small, bears a 

 cluster of pretty blossoms, in 

 colour white tinged with pink. 

 It is a good rockwork shrub 

 in a cool moist position. 



Sends up stiff annual shoots to 

 a height of 4 feet. The leaves 

 are trifoliate. It needs a 

 warm soil, and is not particu- 

 larly attractive. 



A deciduous sub-shrub that 

 dies nearly to the ground in 

 the winter. From the base 

 are pushed up long wand-like 

 arching shoots to a height of 

 5 feet, clothed with trifoliate 

 leaves, and bearing large ter- 

 minal panicles of pea-shaped 

 blossoms. Should it escape the 

 autumn frosts it is delightful. 



A very interesting shrub, 6 feet 

 high in the milder parts of 

 these isles, but hardy almost 

 everywhere. These flowers 

 are succeeded by purple 

 berries which are relished by 

 pheasants, hence it is planted 

 for covert in some places, 



