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PBAGTICAL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS 



COENUS 



C. californica. — A Californian species 

 about 10 ft. high with smooth branches, 

 hairy branchlets, and cymes of pretty 

 white flowers, succeeded by white berries. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. canadensis (Btmch Berry ; Dwarf 

 Cornel). — A small N. American herbace- 

 ous plant 4-8 in. high, with upper leaves 

 in whorls, ovate pointed, veined, on short 

 stalks. Flowers in May, purplish- white, 

 umbeUate, shorter than the 4 white, ovate, 

 pointed bracts. Berries red, conspicuous, 

 sweet and palatable. 



Culture cmd Propagation. — This is 

 a suitable plant for the bog garden, or 

 cool parts of the rockery. It may be 

 easily increased by dividing the roots in 

 early autumn. 



C. capitata (Benthanda fragifera). — 

 Strawberry Tree. — A beautiful tree 

 native of N. India and China, often 

 reaching a height of 40 ft. in Devonshire 

 and Cornwall, and the S. of Ireland, the 

 only parts where it appears to be hardy. 

 Leaves 3-4 in. long, lanoe-shaped, pointed 

 at each end, shortly stalked, roughish, 

 with small adpressed down. Flowers 

 from June to October, large, white, ses- 

 sile, densely clustered in a round head. 

 Fruit about the size of a very large 

 Strawberry, clear red, compdteed of many 

 more or less hexagonal fleshy drupes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. circinata {Bound-Lea/ved Bog- 

 wood). — A native of the United States, 

 3-10 ft. high, with purple-greenish, warty 

 branches, and large, roundish, oval, 

 abruptly pointed leaves, 4-5 in. long, 

 covered with hoary down beneath. 

 Flowers in June, white, in flat cymes. 

 Berries bright blue, about the size of a 

 Pea. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. florida (Flowering Dogwood). — A 

 beautiful tree, 20-30 ft. lugh in the 

 United States, with a very bitter bark. 

 Leaves ovate pointed, with adpressed 

 hairs on both surfaces, changing to 

 shades of green, brown, buff, and yellow 

 in autumn. Flowers in April and May, 

 greenish-yeUow, with 4 large white 

 obcordate bracts. There is a form (flore 

 rubra) in which the flowers are tinted 

 with bright red. 



Culture fie. as above. Only in the 

 hottest parts of the country does C. florida 

 grow to the best advantage, as the pro- 



duction of its fine flowers depends upon 

 the thorough ripening of the wood. 



C. Kousa [Bentharma japonica). — A 

 beautiful Japanese species 3-8 ft. high, 

 with ovate lance-shaped leaves, and 

 clusters of small yellowish flowers, which, 

 however, are surrounded by 4 large white 

 ovate pointed bracts much more attractive 

 in appearance and each about IJ in. long. 

 They appear in May and June. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. macrophylla (C. brachypoda). — A 

 Japanese species of moderate size, with 

 crimson-stalked, elliptic ovate, green- 

 leaves, which change to brown tinted 

 with rose in autumn. Flowers in early 

 summer, white, in clusters. There is a 

 variegated form, with white-edged leaves, 

 but it is not particularly striking. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. Mas {C. mascula). — Cornelian 

 Cherry. — A beautiful free - growing 

 Austrian species 10-16 ft. high, with oval- 

 pointed leaves, rather downy on both 

 surfaces. Flowers from February to 

 April, yellow, appearing before the leaves, 

 in umbels about equal in length to the 

 4-leaved involucre. The variety varie- 

 gata has leaves variegated with silvery 

 white ; and elega/ntissima has the foliage 

 beautifully marked with creamy white 

 and tinged with red. Other forms are 

 aurea, fructu violaceo, lanceolata, nana 

 (or pumila), and xanthoca/rpa. Old trees 

 flower and fruit freely, the fruit being an 

 inch or more long, Cherry-like, bright red, 

 yellow or violet. G. officinalis from Japan 

 and Corea resembles the Cornelian Cherry 

 in appearance, but may be easily distin- 

 guished by the tufts of rusty-coloured 

 hairs in the axils of the main veins of the 

 leaves. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. Nuttalli. — A native of the forests 

 of CaUfornia and Oregon, where it attains 

 a height of 50-60 ft., vidth leaves like 

 those of 0. florida. The flowers are 

 surrounded usually by 6 large broad 

 white bracts, each 2-3 in. long. 



Culture dc. as above. Seedlings of 

 this species are best grown on under the 

 protection of cold frames for a year or two 

 until comparatively large and sturdy, 

 before planting in the open border. 



C. paniculata. — A native of the 

 United States 4-8 ft. high, with pale 

 purple branches. Leaves ovate, pointed, 



