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CORNUS: Dogwood 
Medium-sized shrubs and small trees with small, 
white flowers in numerous clusters. (C. florida 
has apparently large flowers.) Of very easy cul¬ 
ture and extremely hardy. 
C. alba sibirica.' SIBERIAN DOGWOOD. 10 ft. 
Growth erect. Branches bright red, particularly 
conspicuous in winter. Flowers creamy; berries 
light blue. 
C. alternifolia. RLl’E DOGWOOD. Eastern T r . S. 
25 ft. Large shrub or small tree. Branches glau¬ 
cous blue, in irregular whorls. Leaves large, alter¬ 
nate Flowers fragrant, cream colored, in large 
clusters. Berries dark blue on red stems. 
C. florida. FLOWERING DOGWOOD. N. Amer¬ 
ica. 15 ft. Large shrub or small tree. Differs 
from the others in having each dower cluster sur¬ 
rounded by four large, white bracts, the whole 
looking like a very large flower. Leaves large, 
dark green, turning bright red in fall. Native of 
Eastein States; tare in California. 
C. japonica alba. JAPAN WHITE QUINCE. 
White shaded pink. 
C. japonica grandiflora rosea. Has very large, 
rosy pink flowers. 
C. japonica sanguinea. Flowers very dark red. 
Often semi-double. 
CYTISUS: Broom 
Shrubs with clover-1 ike foliage and pea-shaped, 
yellow flowers. 
C. sessilifolius. S. Europe. Finely branched 
shrub. Leaves not downy. Flowers in short ra¬ 
cemes. 
C. triflorus. Europe; Africa. Flowers on long 
stalks and borne all along the branches. 
DEUTZIA 
Very beautiful, free-blooming, Asiatic shrubs 
with bell-shaped flowers produced during spring 
Edgczvorthia gardneri 
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C. sanguinea. Europe; Asia. 12 ft. Large shrub 
with blood-red branches. Leaves downy on both 
sides. Flowers greenish white, in dense clusters. 
Berries black. 
CORYLUS: Filbert 
C. maxima purpurea. PURPLE-LEAVED FIL¬ 
BERT. Large shrub with large, round leaves, in¬ 
tensely dark, bronzy purple in spring, becoming 
greenish toward fall. Very distinct even among 
other purple-leaved trees and shrubs. 
CYDONIA: Quince 
Handsome, well-known shrubs, flowering freely 
in early spring. Excellent for cutting, as shoots 
with unopened buds will keep for two or three 
weeks in water, the flowers gradually unfolding. 
Fruit is very aromatic. 
C. japonica. JAPAN SCARLET QUINCE. China; 
Japan. S ft. An old favorite. Flowers brilliant 
scarlet. Makes an impassable and beautiful flow¬ 
ering hedge. 
and early summer. Should certainly he more 
widely planted in California. All listed below 
arc garden hybrids or varieties. 
D. fortunei. 6 ft. Handsome hybrid of strong 
growth. Flowers are largo, single and pure white. 
D. gracilis rosea. 3 ft. One of our dantiest and 
most graceful flowering shrubs. Branches are ex¬ 
tremely slender and arching, covered with a pro¬ 
fusion of small, beautifully formed flowers, which 
are bright pink in the bud and pale flesh when 
fully opened. Altogether a most charming plant. 
D. lemoinei. 3 ft. Growth similar to preceding, 
but a little more vigorous. Flowers pure 'white. 
Very free flowering. 
D. “Pride of Rochester.” 'Pall growing. Flowers 
large and double; white, slightly tinged pink on 
back of petals. 
D. scabra candidissima. 6 ft. Growth vigorous 
and erect; leaves dark green. Flowers double and 
pure white. 
D. scabra plena (D. crenata rosea plena). G ft. 
Growth like preceding; leaves lighter green. Flow¬ 
ers double; white, tinged rose outside. 
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