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it. The Moonseed {Metiispermum canadense) has large hand- 

 some leaves and small yellowish flowers, succeeded by black 

 berries. It grows well in poor soils and bleak situations. 

 M. dauricum is of quick growth and very ornamental. Cory- 

 lopsis spicata produces its spikes of greenish-yellow fragrant 

 flowers in advance of its hazel-like leaves, and on account of 

 its hardiness and floriferousness it should be planted freely. 

 Exochorda (Spircea) grandiflora and its more beautiful congener 

 E. Alberti, are useful free-flowering ornamental white-flowered 

 shrubs. Both are quite hardy and of easy culture. 



Room should be found in every garden for a plant or two of 

 Chimonanthus rragrans, as the fragrant flowers are very welcome 



Fig. 296. — Clematis Montana. 



during the winter. When planted in rich moist soil, and pruned 

 at the proper time, it flowers with delightful freedom, and 

 occasionally ripens seeds. Indigofera Gerardiana is an orna- 

 mental shrub, well suited for this mode of culture. Its neat 

 soft green leaves and racemes of lovely pink pea-like flowers are 

 borne in great abundance. It flowers freely in dry soil. I. G. alba 

 is a lovely white counterpart of the type, and deserving of 

 extended culture. 



Two early-flowering Honeysuckles {Loniccra fragrantissima and 

 L. Standishii) produce small white and cream-white flowers in 

 January and February; but what they lack in size is fully com- 

 pensated for by their fragrance. Primus triloba is one of the 



