362 List of Shrubs 
H. prolificum Linn. (175) and H. densiflorum Pursh. (176), with 
smaller flowers, are larger in stature (four to six feet), and usually 
earlier bloomers. 
Tlex, see Holly. 
Laburnum, see Trees [List B]. 
Lagerstreemia. ZL. Indica Linn. (177), Crape Myrile or Fringed 
Myrtle, from China, a shrub (twenty to twenty-five feet), and L. flos- 
regine, from India, a tree (up to sixty feet), are hardy only in the South, 
half hardy in the Middle States; with large, beautiful panicles of 
unique bright pink and rose-color flowers, blooming from spring to mid- 
summer, found planted in every dooryard in the South, and may be 
used in protected places as far north as Baltimore. 
Maple, see Trees [List B] (under Acer). 
Magnolia, see Trees [List C]. 
Myrica. Wax Myrile. A large genus, of many species, three of which 
from America are most useful, especially where infertile, barren, and 
exposed, hopeless spots are to be quickly and permanently covered 
with low shrubbery, for they are indifferent to the soil and to the sun, 
hardy from north to south, especially in the ocean breezes, and have 
a most tenacious root system. Although of small ornamental value, 
their rich, dark green foliage and rounded form is pleasing, and their 
bluish, waxy berries interesting. 
M. Carolinensis Mill. (178), Wax Myrtle, the most common, from 
Nova Scotia to Alabama, is also the best for the purposes stated; grow- 
ing from one to four feet, and on favorable sites to ten feet high, with 
dark green, lustrous, fragrant foliage, and very waxy, bluish-white 
berries hanging into winter. 
M. (Comptonia) asplenifolia Linn. (179), the Sweet Fern, of even 
wider distribution and of lower stature, excels the former by reason 
of its fern-like foliage, and beautiful, delicate flowers, which render it 
attractive. It is at the same time singularly adaptive. 
M. Gale Linn. (180), Sweet Gale, of northern range, also has a pleas- 
ing, partly toothed foliage, and fragrant flowers, appearing before the 
leaves; an interesting plant in the foreground of taller shrubs. 
Osage Orange, sce Trees [List C] (under Toxylon). 
Ostrya, see Trees [List C]. 
Paulownia, see Trees [List C]. 
Rhus, see Trees (List B]. 
Ribes, Flowering Currants. Of the sixty or seventy species, indige- 
