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SHRUBS, Continued 
BRUNFELSIA [10] americana. Lady of the Night. 
Tropical. West Indies. Rather slender shrub 
with dark green foliage and a quantity of large 
flowers on long slender tubes, that open yellowish 
and turn white before fading and are intensely 
fragrant, especially at night. These flowers are 
followed by small apple-shaped fruits of a creamy 
yellow color. This is a splendid subject for the 
moonlight garden. 
CAESALPINIA [11] pulcherrima. Dwarf Poinci- 
ana. Sub-tropical. Tropics. A rather hardy shrub 
with pinnate leaves and thorny stems that usu¬ 
ally die back to the ground in colder sections 
but comes again very quickly. The heads of bril¬ 
liant orange-red and yellow flowers with long 
stamens, in the spring and summer, resemble a 
miniature bloom of the Royal Poinciana. A splen¬ 
did mass of color, they should be planted in with 
other subjects that retain the leaves throughout 
the year for best effect. 
C. pulcherrima flava. A brilliant yellow flowered 
form of the above. The flava, however, is a lit¬ 
tle more upright and not so spreading in habit 
of growth. 
CALLISTEMON [12] citrinus. Weeping Bottle 
Brush. Hardy. Australia. A hardy, tall growing 
shrub that sometimes reaches the dimensions of a 
small tree, with narrow grey green foliage, red 
tipped on the end of the branches when young. 
The branches are very slender and weeping in 
habit and the small but very showy crimson flow¬ 
erets arranged around the stem closely resemble 
a bottle brush, hence the common name. A splen¬ 
did background or pool subject, this type of Bot¬ 
tle Brush is better suited to the southern area 
than any of the other of the group. 
C. rigidus. Bottle Brush. Hardy. Australia. A com¬ 
pact growing type of the Callistemon, with dark 
green, rather narrow sharp pointed leaves, form¬ 
ing a dense mass of dark green. The brilliant 
red bloom like large stiff bottle brushes are borne 
in profusion in the early spring. 
CAMELLIA [13] japonica. Camellia. Hardy. China 
and Japan. A rather large but slow growing 
shrub with handsome dark green and shining 
foliage, the Camellia is one of the most prized 
of the flowering shrubs. More suited to the north¬ 
ern and central parts of the state it will thrive 
in the more southern part if given a cool shaded 
situation, deep rich soil and a thorough mulching 
of cow manure and compost early each spring. 
Not all varieties are suited to cultivation in 
Florida and we list only those we have tested out. 
Pink Varieties 
Pink Perfection. The most popular of the pink sorts, 
this has small very double and very regular 
flowers of a delicate sea-shell pink. 
Otome. Large double pink, outer petals sea-shell 
with darker center. 
Beali Rosea. Rich pink. 
Red Varieties 
Gloire de Nantes. Very strong grower, especially 
large green foliage. Blossoms semi-double with 
curling petals and showing yellow stamens. 
Prof. Sargent. Double dark crimson, peony-form, 
very free flowering. 
Variegated Varieties 
Abby Wilder. Large, very double, white with faint 
pink lines. 
Countess of Orkney. Cream white, striped pink. 
Chandler! Elegans. Fine peony-form, rich pink with 
white spots and cluster of bright yellow stamens 
in center. Dwarf grower. 
White Varieties 
Alba Plena. The best of the large double white 
sorts, blooming very early and quite freely. 
Nobilissima. A semi-double white that shows some 
yellow stamens, but is a good grower and a fine 
bloomer. 
Elizabeth. A variable white, sometimes showing a 
faint pink stripe and an occasional solid pink 
bloom. Very double and fine, mid-season bloomer. 
Lily. A fine double white with a few pink markings. 
CARISSA [14] acuminata (C. Arduina). Hedge 
Thorn. Tropical. A small leaved and very dense 
form of the Carissa that makes a splendid pro¬ 
tective hedge because of the thorns. Flowers in 
early spring in dense clusters of intensely fra¬ 
grant white bloom. 
C. grandiflora. Amatungula. Tropical. One of our 
finest seashore plants the Carissa will also thrive 
inland in well protected places. Foliage medium 
to large, dark green and shining, flowers waxy 
white, very fragrant and resembling an orange 
blossom though somewhat larger. The brilliant 
red fruits ripening in summer are useful for 
making jelly. While it is not so dense or thorny 
as the acuminata, it makes a splendid subject for 
mass planting. 
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