152 THE GRBENING PICTORIAL SYSTEM OP LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



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Cotinus (Purple Fringe or Smoke Tree) — A 

 unique spreading treelike shrub with large 

 leaves. These are overhung in midsummer by 

 cloud-like masses of very light, mistlike flowers, 

 having the appearance of smoke. Foliage 

 changes to brilliant shades of yellow and red 

 in autumn. 



Glabra (Smooth Sumac) — Growth of treelike na- 

 ture with open crown. Flowers in July followed 

 by crimson or brown fruit clusters. Foliage 

 colors beautifully in autumn. Fine for massing. 



Laciniata — Also of treelike form with deeply cut 

 leaflets producing a fern-like effect, which turns 

 to rich crimson in fall. 



RIBES (Currant) 

 Aureum (Golden Currant) — Fragrant yellow flow- 

 ers in early spring, followed by dark brown 

 fruits. 



Sanguineum (Red Flowering Currant) — A large, 

 upright shrub with red bark and twigs, reddish 

 purple flowers borne in long racemes in early 

 spring. 



ROBINIA (Acacia Locust) 

 Hispida — An elegant shrub with light green pin- 

 nate leaves and long, graceful clusters of pea- 

 shaped, rose-colored flowers in June, often 

 tliroughout the summer. 



Neo-Mexicana — A similar shrub of more vigorous 

 growth with bright red flowers and longer com- 

 pound leaves with IS to 21 leaflets. 



SAMBUCUS (Elder) 



Nigra, aurea (Golden Elder) — Contrasted with 

 other shrubs, the golden yellow leaves of this 

 Elder give heightened effects in tone and color. 

 Flowers white, in flat-topped cymes in early 

 summer. It can be pruned into a neat, compact 

 little bush, or grows naturally to 10 or IS feet. 



Variegata (Variegated Elder) — Leaves are quaint- 

 ly mottled with white and yellow. Flowers and 

 growth like the type. 



Laciniata (Cut-leaved Elder) — The leaves of this 

 variety are fernlike in formation, and the shrub 

 is of half-drooping habit. One of the finest in 

 cultivation, being especially efi^ective in masses. 

 Grows 8 to 10 feet. 



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Arguta (Snow Garland) — A slender dwarf, 3 to 5 

 feet high, with branches a snowy mass of clear 

 white flowers in early May. 



Bumalda — A spreading, low bush, but 2 feet high 

 with dark leaves brightened by corymbs of 

 pretty, light pink flowers in May, and at inter- 

 vals all summer. 



Anthony Waterer — A new form of better habit 

 than the type, with larger corymbs of rosy 

 crimson. 



Billardi — A narrow, dense shrub, 6 feet high, with 

 dense panicles of rich pink flowers in July and 

 August, also in fall. 



Callosa alba (S. Japonica, of some) — Of compact 

 growth, 4 feet high, with upright branches and 

 bluish green foliage; crowded with large, flat 

 clusters of white flowers nearly all summer. 



Atrosanguinea — Dark red or rose flowers in June 

 and July. 



Reevesiana (Reeves' Double Spiraja) — Tall and 

 graceful, S to 8 feet high, with dark, bluish 

 green lance-like foliage, and large, pure white 

 double flowers in May and June. 



Douglasi — Upright in growth to S or 7 feet, with 

 reddish brown branches and narrow, oblong- 

 leaves. Bears spikes of beautiful, deep rose- 

 colored flowers in July and August. 



Opulifolia — This and the next are sometimes 

 classed under Physocarpus or Ninebark. They 

 make a much stronger growth than most sorts, 

 growing rapidly upright to 10 feet, although 

 their branches droop vyhen laden with their 

 great weight of white flowers. 



Aurea — Tall-growing shrub. The leaves are bright 

 yellow in spring, gradually changing to golden 

 brown in fall. Flowers double white. 



Prunifolia, flora pleno (Bridal Wreath) — Among 

 the earliest of the double spiraeas to bloom, very 

 graceful and plume-like in effect, branches be- 

 ing covered thickly almost their whole length 

 with small, double white flowers, and sweeping 

 outward in gentle curves. 



SPIRAEA PRUNIFOLIA (Bridal Wreath) 



Thunbergii (Thunberg's Spiraea — Distinct and 

 most attractive at all seasons, with feathery 

 masses of pure white flowers in early spring; in 

 autumn its narrow leaves change to bright red 

 and orange. Forms a dense, feathery bush. 



Van Houttei (Van Houtte's Spira?a) — One of the 

 most charming and beautiful of the Spiraeas, 

 having pure white flowers in clusters or pani- 

 cles about an inch in diameter. Astonishingly 

 profuse in bloom and plants remarkably vigor- 

 ous and hardy. A grand shrub for planting 

 singly or in groups, or as a banking against 

 buildings. 



SYMPHORICARPOS 

 Racemosus (White Snowberry) — A well-known 

 shrub with small pink flowers and large white 

 berries that will remain on the plant through 

 part of the winter. The white berries are the 

 most attractive characteristic of the shrub. 



