|tomentosum as plicatum is a
|Fortune in 1844 | |variety of that species. V.
| | |tomentosum itself is a
| | |handsome shrub with big,
| | |flattish cymes and
| | |creamy-white sterile
| | |flowers round the margin of
| | |the truss. That known as V.
| | |plicatum, a sterile form of
| | |V. tomentosum, is a
| | |beautiful shrub; the most
| | |precious perhaps of the
| | |whole family. It makes a
| | |glorious group on the lawn,
| | |and in early June the
| | |spreading shoots are so
| | |thickly covered with flower
| | |clusters that scarcely a
| | |vestige of the dark-green,
| | |wrinkled leafage is
| | |visible. It is quite hardy,
| | |but in the north it will be
| | |wise to choose a sheltered
| | |position for it. As a wall
| | |shrub too it is valuable,
| | |and a specimen on a wall in
| | |the Royal Horticultural
| | |Society's gardens at
| | |Chiswick is quite a mass of
| | |bloom every year. Passers
| | |by who know not the shrub
| | |wonder what it is making so
| | |thick a mantle of white. It
| | |grows 4 to 5 feet high in