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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1918 



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rj ALIMODENDRON argenteum is a shrub 

 A *■ apparently little known in gardens and 

 deserving of a much wider cultivation. It is 

 a wide spreading shrub and grows about six 

 feet tall, bearing a number of sharp spines on 

 the older branches; is perfectly hardy and 

 flowers profusely every year toward the end 

 of June and lasts in flower for about three 

 weeks, being very attractive the whole of the 

 time. The flowers, which are of a pale purple 

 color, are borne on lateral racemes of two or 

 three together and are pea-shaped, the plant 

 being a member of the Leguminosae. The 

 foliage is compound, and of a silvery appear- 

 ance, being covered with pale, silky hairs, 

 and is deciduous. Standing both heat and 

 drought with no ill effects is much in its 

 favor, and as a native of the dry, naked salt 

 fields of Siberia suggests it as a valuable plant 

 to succeed in the neighborhood of the sea- 

 shore. The easiest way of propagation is to 

 graft on Caragana arborescens in January, 

 but a few will also root from cuttings put in 

 sand at the same time of the year. Seedlings 

 also come up fairly readily especially if left 

 on the shrub till one or two good frosts have 

 occurred before being planted. 



1~~\IRCA palustris is one of our earliest 

 *~* spring flowering shrubs. The flowers 

 which appear before the leaves early in April 

 are borne in clusters of two or three together 

 and though small are usually very abundant. 

 These are pendulous and of a yellow color and 

 are made more attractive by the yellow 

 stamens that protrude below the corolla. The 

 flowers are followed by numerous small berry- 

 like fruits of a greenish-yellow color and 

 ripen early in the summer when they very 

 quickly fall off. Dirca palustris is wide 

 spreading and densely branched and the 

 branches and bark are very tough in character 

 which gives to the plant its common name of 

 "Leather-wood;" it is so tough in fact that 

 knots may be tied in the shoots without fear 

 of injury to the plant, and snow often lays 

 the bushes down flat from which no harm 

 usually results. It is found growing wild on 

 the borders of woods in damp, wet situations, 

 and consequently requires a fairly moist 

 location to be successful in its cultivation. 

 One interesting point about the Dirca is that 

 it has subpetiolar buds — that means that the 

 buds are formed under the base of the leaf 

 stalk, as is common with the Plane tree. The 

 bud is consequently concealed until the leaf 

 falls off in the autumn. Dirca palustris is 

 closely related to the Daphnes and like them 

 is difficult to root from cuttings, but it comes 

 very readily from seed, and for this reason 

 more of it should be found in our gardens, 

 especially by those people who love the early 

 flowering shrubs. 

 Jamaica Plain Wm. H. Judd. 



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