FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 15 



path in wood, shrubbery, or garden, will delight one 

 with its thousands of small yellow flowers, neatly tucked 

 in clusters along the leafless branches. An early 

 impression of a walk completely arched over by this 

 Cornus is vividly recalled, and not less so the palatable 

 red berries, from which the plant receives its name of 

 Cornelian "Cherry." The fruit is thought little of 

 in Britain, but is esteemed here and there on the 

 Continent. 



CORYLOPSIS 



although so closely related to the witch-hazels, are very 

 different in appearance, and are much more tender, and 

 with less enduring but fragrant flowers, produced in 

 hop-like catkins. There are four species : C. himalayana 

 (too tender for general use, better in greenhouse), the 

 Chinese C. multifloray and the Japanese C pauciflora and 

 C. spicata, the last being most fragrant and most gene- 

 rally grown. The pendulous flowers are produced in 

 February, but are easily injured. In foliage these 

 shrubs resemble the witch-hazels. 



The Winter Sweet or Sweet Shrub 



are names applied to Chimonanthus fragrans {Calycanthus 

 praecox), and suggest the wonderful fragrance of the 

 yellowish flowers, often open at the beginning of the 

 year. As these are quickly destroyed by frost, this 

 Japanese plant is usually met with on a sunny wall, in 

 which case all the flower-bearing shoots should be cut 

 within an inch of the older wood in early spring. 

 Young shoots will break, and sufficient of these should 

 be tied back to form the next winter's flowering wood. 

 Shoots of bush plants should be only half shortened. 

 Propagated by seed and layers. 



The Chinese variety grandiflorus has larger flowers, 

 but in some gardens is less freely flowered. Its perfume 



