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Flowering Trees 
The winter-blooming trees avail¬ 
able for planting along the Gulf 
Coast and in the lower sections of 
the South are all beautiful, and many 
of them are unusual. The Tea 
Olive, Olea frqgrans, is usually 
classed as a shrub, but, if well cul¬ 
tivated, soon attains the proportions 
of a tree. It is the most fragrant 
of all our trees and shrubs, the blos¬ 
soms making up in sweetness what 
they lack in size. 
The Japanese Loquat or Medlar, 
Eriobotrya japonica, is another tree 
with flowers of cloying fragrance 
that comes into bloom in November 
and lasts almost until Christmas. 
This tree also has a bright yellow 
fruit from February until May that 
adds much to its attractiveness. The 
ever beautiful Photinia scrrulata, 
with its leaf-buds of brilliant red 
in midwinter, becomes a sight to 
delight the gods when February’s 
chilling rains make life a burden and 
cheer much needed. It is then cov¬ 
ered with corymbs of creamy-white 
flowers that remind one of the sum¬ 
mer-flowering elders. With the 
Photinias, the native Wild Olive, 
Olea americana, blooms. The blos¬ 
soms of this tree are individually 
insignificant, but when the multitu¬ 
dinous clusters show among the al¬ 
ways glistening green leaves it is 
one of the most charming of ever¬ 
green trees. Defoliation is neces¬ 
sary in transplanting this tree, and 
as the nurserymen do not handle 
them it is well to remember this in 
digging them in the woods to trans¬ 
port to the lawns and gardens which 
they so worthily adorn. All of the 
above trees are classed as broad¬ 
leaved evergreens and are valuable, 
therefore, for the winter foliage as 
well as for the blossoms. 
The golden yellow balls of the 
Opoponax, Acacia farnesiana, with 
their delicate fragrance, bring to the 
gardens of the far South and Flor¬ 
ida the aroma of the gardens of the 
Orient. .With dainty foliage, finely 
cut and sensitive to the touch and 
outlines of characteristic grace, this 
I tree should be planted in the tropi¬ 
cal sections much more often than it 
is, for its blossoms also project their 
haunting odor on the midwinter air. 
The early spring-flowering trees 
that have small white flowers are the 
White Fringe, Chionanthus virgini- 
ca, that we knew in the woodland 
roamings of childhood as Grand- 
daddy’s Greybeard; the Silver Bell 
and Snowdrop Trees, Mohrodendron 
carolinum and M. dipterum, which 
tell by their common names the 
nature of the blossoms; the charac¬ 
teristic and fragrant clusters of the 
hardy Black Locust, Robinia pseu- 
dacacia; the Hillside Thorn, Craeta- 
gits collina, the English and ever¬ 
green Hawthorns, Craetagus mono- 
gyna and C. coccinea Lalandii; the 
Service Berry and Shadbush, Amel- 
anchier botryapium and A. canaden¬ 
sis, known to all; with the late blooms 
of the Yellow Wood, Virgilia lutea, 
and the Sourwood, Oxydendron ar- 
boreum, which bears clusters of 
flowers like Lilies of the Valley, all 
add daintiness to the landscape and 
most of them fragrance as well. 
For the broader-petaled white 
blooms of early spring the most 
popular, and deservedly so, is the 
Dogwood in its various forms. Cor- 
nus Florida alba is most used in the 
South. The Hardy Oranges, and the 
Citrange, grafted on the stock of 
Citrus trifoliata, are most attractive 
and the Starry Magnolia, Magnolia 
stellata, the creamy white Horse 
Chestnuts, Aesculus parviflora, and 
Aes. hippocastanum, the Chinese 
Flowering Chestnut, Xanthoceras 
sorbifolia, and the Mountain Ash, 
Sorbus americana, will round out 
the list. 
To these trees we may add, for 
the white blossoms, the fruit trees, 
cherry, plum, pear and the Flower¬ 
ing Peach, Persica Chrysanthemum 
alba or Persica vulgaris. In mid¬ 
summer the white Crepe Myrtles are 
very beautiful, but this form, Lager- 
stroemia indica alba, is not a strong 
grower or as hardy as the pink 
kinds, and is not advisable for gen¬ 
eral use. 
If anything can be more beautiful 
than the snowy charm of the white- 
blossomed trees of the springtime it 
is when the roseate hues of peach 
