| |descending roots, and holds
| | |its own in sandy soils
| | |better than most shrubs.
| | |
*C. tinctoria |North America |White |A tree, 30 feet high,
(Virginian Yellow | | |clothed with large
Wood. Syn. Virgilia| | |ornamental pinnate leaves,
lutea) | | |which die off a rich
| | |yellow. The flowers are
| | |white, and in dense
| | |drooping racemes. A fairly
| | |moist soil is necessary for
| | |this.
| | |
Clethra alnifolia |United States of|White; |In the United States of
|America; |August and|America the White Alder or
|Ericaceae |early |Pepper Bush, as Clethra
| |September |alnifolia is called, occurs
| | |as a native over a
| | |considerable area; hence
| | |several forms exist, but do
| | |not possess any strongly
| | |marked features, unless it
| | |be the variety tomentosa,
| | |which is certainly the most
| | |widely removed of all from
| | |the typical kind. As a rule
| | |the flowering period of the
| | |common White Alder extends
| | |throughout August and a
| | |little way into September,
| | |at which last-named period
| | |the variety tomentosa is
| | |just unfolding its earliest
| | |blossoms. As the