COENUS 



DOGWOOD OBDEB 



AUCUBA 475 



smooth, hoary beneath. Flowers in July 

 and August in loose cymes. Fruit white. 

 Culture do. as above. 



C. pubescens. — This shrubby Dogwood 

 grows 4-12 ft. high, and is a native of 

 Western N. America. It has smooth pur- 

 plish branches more or less covered with 

 hairs, and oval or ovate-acute leaves, 

 green above, silky white beneath. The 

 white flowers appear in summer, and are 

 succeeded by white fruits. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. sang^uinea {Common Dogwood; 

 Dogberry; PricTcwood). — A native of 

 Britain and north temperate regions, 6-8 

 ft. high, with dark red branches. Leaves 

 2-3 in. long, ovate, or ovate oblong, acute, 

 downy. Flowers in June and July, 

 creamy white, in dense terminal cymes, 

 succeeded by small black berries. The 

 variety ccmdidissima has pale yellowish- 

 green bark ; latifolia has much broader 

 leaves than the type ; and variegata is an 

 undesirable form with variegated foUage. 



CvMu/re do. as above. 



C. sericea. — A native of the United 

 States 5-8 ft. high, with wooUy branchlets, 

 having a dull purple-coloured bark and 

 ovate pointed leaves, clothed with rusty 

 down beneath. Flowers in summer, 

 white, in woolly depressed corymbs. 

 Berries pale blue, roundish. 



Culture dc. as above. This species 

 prefers rather moist and boggy situations 

 and may be grown on the banks of streams, 

 ponds &c. 



C. stolonifera (Bed Osier Dogwood). 

 A North American species 4-10 ft. high, 

 spreading and increasing freely by 

 prostrate or underground stems. Young 

 shoots bright reddish-purple. Leaves 

 ovate acute, downy, whitish beneath. 

 Flowers in May, white, in small flat 

 cymes. Berries white. C. Baileyi, a 

 recently introduced Dogwood, native of S. 

 Canada, is closely related but may be dis- 

 tinguished from this species by its erect 

 habit, by the absence of creeping under- 

 ground stems, by the duller brownish bark, 

 the pearly-white fruits, and the white 

 woolliness of the under surface of the 

 leaves. 



Culture dc. as above for C. sericea. 



C. stricta. — A straight-growing spe- 

 cies 8-15 ft. high, native of the United 

 States, with reddish-brown branches. 

 Leaves ovate, pointed, smooth, green on 



both sides. Flowers in June, white, in 

 loose, flattish cymes. There is a form 

 with white and yellow variegated leaves. 

 The type is also known as 0. ccmdidissima. 

 Culture dc. as above. 



C. suecica. — A native of Britain and 

 Northern Europe, about 6 in. high, with 

 opposite, sessile, ovate leaves. Flowers 

 in June, dark purple, with 4 white 

 bracts, which finally change to green^ 

 Berries red. 



Culture and Propagation. — Like C. 

 canadensis this herbaceous species may 

 be grown in swampy or cool moist places 

 and may be increased by clividing the roots 

 in early autumn. It wUl also flourish in 

 ordinary garden soil which is not particu- 

 larly moist. 



AUCUBA.— A genus of beautiful 

 evergreen shrubs with opposite leaves, and 

 small dioecious flowers in axillary panicles. 

 In the male flowers the calyx is small, 4- 

 toothed. Petals 4, ovate or lance-shaped- 

 Stamens 4. Disc 4:-angled, fleshy. Ovary 

 none. Female flowers : — Caljrx tube ovoid, 

 or nearly cylindrical, 4-toothed. Fruit a 

 1-seeded drupe about the size of the Sloe.. 



A. japonica. — A native of Japan 6-10' 

 ft. high, with broadly ovate-lance-shaped 

 leaves, pointed, toothed, leathery in 

 texture, smooth and shining, pale green, 

 spotted and mottled with yellow. There 

 are mmaerous more or less distinct forms 

 of both the male and female kinds, aU 

 worth growing. A. himalouica, from th& 

 Himalayas, is probably a geographical 

 form of A. japonica. A large-leaved form 

 of it called macrophylla has orange- 

 coloured berries. The distinct features of 

 the following varieties are sufficiently 

 indicated by the names : alho-va/riegata, 

 a/wrea, dentata, latimaculata, latifoUa, 

 cmgustifoUa, pygmcea, salicifolia, sul- 

 phurea, and viridis. 



Culture and Propagation. — Aucubas 

 are excellent shrubs for growing where 

 others will not, as under trees. The 

 pollen-bearing plants (i.e. those having 

 stamens) should be planted near the 

 others so that a good crop of bright red 

 berries may be always rehed upon. 

 One male or poUen-bearing plant in the 

 vicinity of several female or pistillate ones 

 will be sufficient to ensure fertilisation by 

 natural means. Where this is not the 

 case, the crop of berries may be improved 

 by collecting the pollen, and dusting it with 



