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SEPTEMBER . FLO, WERING TREES AND SHRUBS 
Nearly every tree has fulfilled its 
work of flowering by the time the 
month of September comes. It is 
not a month of flowers with trees but 
one of fruit. Still, many of the Au- 
gust ones are still with us, notably 
the Aralia and the Dimorphanthus. 
But there are two elms presenting 
the unusual sight of their flowers 
now, the Ulmus crassifolia and Lb 
parvifolia. True, the flowers of an 
elm make no display, but the. fact that 
they flower now, when other elms 
bloom in the earliest days of spring, 
is surprising to many and interesting 
to all. The Ulmus crassifolia is a 
native of Texas and adjoining states, 
and becomes a beautiful small tree, 
so, too, does the parvifolia, which 
comes from Japan. 
There are two other trees, or small 
trees, to better describe them, flow- 
ering in September, the Gordonia pu- 
bescens and Clerodendron trichoto- 
mum. The Gordonia is a rare and 
beautiful tree. It has long ceased to 
exist where originally found wild, in 
Georgia, and has never been found 
elsewhere. The first plants of it com- 
ing to Philadelphia through the ef- 
forts of the Bartrams — among the 
first of the original botani'sts of the 
country — it is natural that there 
should be found some of the plants 
today, a very large specimen only; 
but nurserymen there are propagating 
it of late years, and young plants of 
it can again be had. The flowers are 
cream white, with a large cluster of 
yellow stamens in their center, look- 
ing like a large single white camellia, 
and possessing a delightful fragrance. 
It commences to flower in late Au- 
gust and continues until late October. 
I regret to add that this lovely small 
tree is not reliably hardy much fur- 
ther north than New York City. 
Clerodendren trichotomum is a 
Japanese species, often seen as a 
slirub, but it can be grown as a tree 
if kept to one stem from the start. 
The flowers are produced freely, in 
September. They are cream white 
with rose colored calyxes, and are 
gratefully fragrant. This small tree 
is fairly hardy in the middle states, 
and deserves extensive planting. 
The Mt. Ash should be admitted to 
the September list because of its beau- 
tiful clusters of red berries at this 
season of the year. There is really 
but little difiference between the na- 
tive one. Pyrus Americana, and the 
European species, P. Aucuparia. 
Among shrubs, Spiraea Anthony 
VVaterer is again a charming sight, its 
second crop of flowers clustering its 
shoots; in fact it h.as never been with- 
out flowers all summer, but those of 
today are from the young shoots that 
started in early spring. 
Buddleias are good shrubs to plant. 
They continue flowering for a long 
time. B. curviflora is in its prime 
now. Its .flowers are of lilac color 
CLEMATIS PANICLLATA. 
VIBURNUM DILITATUM. 
Br-is-ht Reel Berries, . 
