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Webster, A. D.

"Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs"

Individually the flowers
are larger than those of the species.


_ADDENDA_.

EXOCHORDA.
EXOCHORDA GRANDIFLORA (_syn Spiraea grandiflora_).--North China. This
handsome shrub forms a much branched, spreading bush, about 4 feet to 6
feet high, and flowers abundantly in May. The habit is similar to that
of a shrubby Spiraea, but the pure white flowers are as large as those
of some of the species of Cherry, and quite unlike those of any known
species of Spiraea. The flowers are liable to injury sometimes from late
spring frosts, but the plant itself is quite hardy. As a bush on the
lawn it is nevertheless highly ornamental and desirable.

MYRICARIA.
MYRICARIA GERMANICA.--Europe, Asia, 1582. A tall, somewhat straggling
shrub, very similar to the Tamarisk, with terminal spikes of pink or
rosy flowers, produced freely nearly all the summer. It succeeds well in
this country in sea-side situations, and is often described as a
Tamarisk by gardeners.

TREES SUITABLE FOR PLANTING IN TOWNS.
Acer macrophylla
saccharinum
Aesculus Hippocastanum
rubicunda
Ailanthus glandulosa
Crataegus Oxyacantha
flore-plena
tenacetifolia
Catalpa bignonioides
Cerasus (Prunus), nearly all
Gleditschia triacanthos
Liriodendron tulipiiera
Magnolia acuminata
glauca
Pyrus of sorts
Robinia Pseud-acacia and its varieties
viscosa
Sophora japonica
Tilia, in variet.


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