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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



than the last and apt to he tinged ■with red outside, summer to 

 fall. Indian or Royal Jasmine (470) (called hy many names) 

 — Jasminum grandifl6rum. 



* Mowers yellow ; leaves alternate and compound. (B.) 



B. Leaves glossy with 3-5 blunt blades; branches nearly round and 

 stifi; flowers in small terminal clusters, summer. Common 

 Sweet Yellow Jasmine (471) — Jasminum odoratlssimum. 



B. Leaves thick, evergreen with 3-7 acute blades (rarely I blade), 

 edges more or less rolled ; flowers bright in open clusters, sum- 

 mer and fall. Italian Yellow JASMrNE(472) — Jasminum 

 htunile. 



* Mowers yellow ; leaves opposite, deciduous, of 3 rounded blades ; 



branches green, 4-angled, stiff, twiggy. Where hardy, Washing- 

 ton and South, it blooms well through most of the winter. 

 Naked-flowered Jasmine — Jasminum nudiflbrum. 



Forsythia. The Fokstthias or Golden Bells are very ornamental 

 early-flowering hardy deciduous shrubs which burst into bloom as the 

 winter is leaving, the bright yellow 

 bell- or star-shaped flowers fairly 

 cover the naked branches before the 

 hard frosts are over. The corolla 

 has four long slender lobes. 



The tallest and most erect grow- 

 ing species. Erect Forsythia (473) 

 — Forsythia viridissima, — to 10 feet, 

 has always simple, narrow, dark green leaves with 

 sharp notches from the center to the tip and some- 

 what 4-sided green branches with the pith in 

 plaits. 



The other species in common cultivation. 

 Weeping Forsythia (474) — Forsythia sus- 

 p^nsa, — has broader and shorter leaves which are 

 frequently 3-lobed and occasionally 3-bladed, and 

 weak almost trailing branches hollow in the center, 

 instead of with the plaited pith of the other 

 species. This has two well-marked varfeties : the 

 trailing variety is called Siebold's Forsythia — 

 Forsythia Sifeboldi ; the more erect and vigorous 

 growing variety with many 3-bladed leaves is 

 Fortune's F6rsythia — Forsythia Forttinei. The first, Forsythia Sife- 

 boldi, is well fitted to trail over arbors or fences, as its slender branches 

 grow 12 feet or more in length. 



Fig. 473. — Erect 

 Forsythia. 



