FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 13 



Of the seven genera that contain winter flowering 

 garden shrubs having yellow flowers on naked branches 

 (the leaves appearing after the flowers), Jasminum is 

 the earliest and best known. The others, Hamamelisy 

 CornuSy Chimonanthus y Corylopsisy Lonicera, and Forsythiay 

 are shortly noticed further on. 



Winter Jasmine 



The beautiful Chinese Jasminum nudiflorumy of which 

 there are probably more plants in cultivation than in a 

 wild state, is valuable for walls, for planting as drooping 

 bushes in beds, and near old tree stumps and rocks, 

 over which its gilded branches will droop. Even if 

 frosted, the smaller buds usually escape, so that with 

 milder weather the branches are again decorated with 

 large yellow flowers that 



" Twinkle to the wintry moon, 

 And cheer the ungenial day." 



Owing to the stems being dark green the winter 

 absence of foliage is not very noticeable, although a 

 very fine effect is had by training the shoots loosely 

 over an ivy-covered wall. In March tie in, at 4 

 inches apart, all the strongest shoots that have last 

 flowered, and cut out the rest. From the shoots tied 

 close to the wall there will issue during summer a 

 quantity of spray shoots which are next winter's 

 flowering wood, and should be allowed to grow out, 

 without tying or restraint. Shoots of the jasmine, 

 layered down, soon root. 



The Fantastic Witch-Hazels 



are slower growing shrubs. Unlike the preceding, they 

 have almost scentless flowers. The oldest introduced 

 species, Hamamelis virginicay is most frequently met with. 

 It is, however, the least showy of these shrubs. Thoreau 



