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DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 
with shrubs of dark and less delicate foliage. Height ten to eigh¬ 
teen feet. 
The Caragana frutescens is a more shrubby species of the same, 
growing six to ten feet high • also noted for the yellowish hue of its 
leaves. 
The Caragana grandifiora. —A pretty, quite low shrub, with the 
same characteristics of foliage as the preceding. Height two to 
four feet. Flowers yellow, an inch long, in June and July. Pods 
brown, ripe in September. 
The Chinese Caragana, C. chamlagn , is a low spreading shrub, 
two to four feet high, with branches at first upright and then de¬ 
cumbent. Grafted on the C. arborescens it forms, according to 
Loudon, “a singularly picturesque pendulous tree; beautiful not 
only when it is in leaf or in flower, but from the graceful lines 
formed by its branches, even in the midst of winter, when they are 
completely stripped of their leaves.” Flowers yellow, or reddish- 
yellow, in May and June. 
THE CALOPHACA. Calophaca. 
This is another species of leguminacece , from Russia and Siberia, 
with extremely small acacia-like leaves, composed of many leaflets, 
and racemes of yellow blossoms, on long upright stalks. It bears 
a reddish pod in August, which is ornamental. It is recommended 
to graft this species on the laburnum, as it forms a shrub only two 
to four feet high on its own roots. Flowers in June. 
THE CHIMONANTHUS, OR WINTER FLOWER. 
Chimonanthus fragrans. 
A half-hardy shrub, from Japan, producing yellow and purple 
flowers, an inch or more in diameter, of great fragrance, from No¬ 
vember to March; hence its name of winter flower. It flourishes 
in the south of England, and will probably thrive on the Atlantic 
and Gulf slopes south of Washington. It is considered one of the 
