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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS lespedeza 



H. Mackenzi. — A rather handsome 

 N. American perennial 2-3 ft. high, the 

 pinnate leaves of which are made up of 

 5-7 pairs of oval, blunt, or retuse leaflets. 

 The pretty rose-purple flowers appear in 

 early summer in long loose racemes. 



Culture dc. as above for H. corona- 

 rmm. Seeds are freely ripened. 



H. microcalyx. — A pretty half shrubby 

 perennial 2-5 ft. high, native of the N.W. 

 Himalayas. The pinnate leaves are 6-12 

 in. long, and composed of 17-21 oblong 

 blunt leaflets each f-l^ in. long. The 

 bright p'urple flowers appear in June in 

 racemes 6-12 in. long. 



Culture dc. as for B". mtdtijuguvi. 



H. multijugum. — A shrub 2-5 ft. high 

 native of S. Mongolia. The plant is 

 covered with soft silky hairs, and the 

 leaves are composed of 20-30 bluntly 

 obovate or oblong leaflets, silky beneath. 

 The pale pinky-red flowers appear in early 

 summer and are borne in racemes in the 

 axils of the leaves. 



Culture and Propagation. — This 

 species produces seeds freely in the open 

 air, and new plants may be obtained by 

 sowing them as soon as ripe or in spring 

 in cold frames, afterwards transplanting 

 the seedlings when large enough. Cut- 

 tings of the young flowerless shoots may 

 also be inserted in sandy soil in spring or 

 early summer under a glass. 



ONOBRYCHIS {Sainfoin).— K 

 genus with over 70 species of unarmed 

 herbs or undershrubs, rarely very spiny 

 shrubs. Leaves oddly pinnate, stipules 

 soarious. Flowers in stalked spikes or 

 racemes. Standard petal obovate or 

 obcordate, narrow at the base, scarcely 

 clawed ; wings short, or very short ; 

 keel obliquely truncate at the apex, blunt, 

 equal to or longer than the standard. 

 Pod flattened half-round or roundish- 

 circinate, unjointed. 



O. sativa {Common Sainfoin). — A 

 British and European species 2-3 ft. high, 

 with eUiptic-oblong, mucronate leaflets, 

 and bright rosy-red flowers with darker 

 veins in ovoid compact racemes in 

 summer. The variety montana is a 

 more desirable plant 6-12 in. high, from 

 the Alps. It is a pretty decumbent rock 

 plant, with ouneate lance-shaped, muoro- 

 nulate leaflets, and purplish-rose flowers. 



O. Laconica is a beautiful species dif- 

 fering from 0. sativa in its larger bright 



pirJi flowers, more glaucous foliage, and 

 a dwarfer and more compact habit. 



Culture and Propagation. — Very few 

 species are cultivated. They like deep 

 sandy, loamy soils, and are easily in- 

 creased from seeds sown in spring or 

 autumn in the open border where the 

 plants are to bloom. Open sunny situa- 

 tions suit them best. 



LESPEDEZA. — A genus containing 

 about 25-30 species of shrubs or under- 

 shrubs often covered with soft silky hairs. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules 

 free, often minute. Flowers purplish, 

 rose, or white, borne in axillary clusters or 

 racemes, or in panicles at the ends of the 

 branches. Calyx lobes or teeth nearly 

 equal, or the 2 upper ones slightly united. 

 Standard petal obovate or oblong, with a 

 narrow claw ; wings falcate-oblong, free 

 or slightly adhering to the incurved, blnnt 

 or beaked keel. Upper stamen free, or 

 rarely uniting with the others. Pod ovate 

 or roundish, flatly compressed. 



L. bicolor. — A handsome shrub 4-8 ft. 

 high, native of China and Japan. It has 

 dark brown minutely warty stems dis- 

 tinctly ribbed when young and covered 

 with greyish downy hairs. The leaves 

 are composed of 3 more or less oval- 

 eUiptic leaflets ^-1^ in. long, and much 

 broader than those of L. Sieholdi. The 

 large branching racemes of blossoms are 

 much less dense than those of i. SiehoMi, 

 and the individual flowers also are some- 

 what smaller and not so highly coloured 

 with rose-purple. 



Culture and Propagation. — This 

 species flourishes in ordinary good and 

 well-drained garden soil, and is hardy in 

 ordinary winters in the neighbourhood of 

 London. It should be grown in waim 

 and sheltered spots in order to secure the 

 best results. Seeds may be sown in cold 

 frames when ripe, and cuttings of the 

 more or less ripened shoots may also be 

 inserted in sandy soil under a. handlight 

 during the summer and autumn months. 



L. Sieboldi {Desinodiuvt pevdiili- 

 florum). — A handsome hardy shrub 5-6 ft. 

 high, native of N. China and Japan, with 

 drooping branches and Laburnum-like 

 leaves composed of 3 oblong lance-shaped 

 leaflets, the terminal one of which has a 

 much longer stalk than the others, but 

 they are all covered with white hairs on 

 the under surface. The pretty rose or 

 lilac-purple pea-like flowers are produced 



