ring out its
| | |finest qualities. One can
| | |scarcely say too much in
| | |its praise, especially as
| | |it blooms at a time few
| | |trees and shrubs are in
| | |flower.
| | |
*C. praecox |Hybrid between |Sulphur |One of the most fascinating
|C. purgans and |yellow; |of all flowering shrubs.
|C. albus |April to |It makes clouds of soft
| |May |colouring, every shoot
| | |hidden with the wealth of
| | |bloom; whilst when out of
| | |flower there is beauty in
| | |the brilliant green
| | |colouring of the long
| | |slender shoots. It is a
| | |shrub to make groups of in
| | |the flower garden, grows
| | |quickly, does not soon get
| | |"leggy," and is very dense.
| | |The big groups of it on the
| | |grass in the Royal Gardens,
| | |Kew, are one of the
| | |delights of the spring
| | |season there. The ordinary
| | |shrubbery is the worst
| | |place for it, all its
| | |gracefulness is lost, there
| | |is no fountain of flowers
| | |from the slender shoots. It
| | |is best raised from
| | |cuttings, as seedlings are
| | |apt to reproduce C. albus