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Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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her these characters are not merely due to inferior vigour. CELASTRUS. celastrace^. Vigorous climbers, or shrubs of a loose, spreading habit, with alternate,deciduous leaves. Flowers small, greenish yellow or white, of little beauty ;in terminal or axillary clusters, with the sexes sometimes on separateplants. Fruit very handsome; usually a three-lobed capsule, which whenripe splits open, revealing its highly coloured inner surface and thefleshy covering of the seeds, also highly coloured and known as thearil. The climbing species are admirable for covering rough oakbranches 10 to 15 ft. high set in the ground, old trees, or for plantinganywhere where the twining shoots may firmly attach themselves andsecure the plant, yet at the same time allow many of the long, slendershoots to hang unrestrained in free air. No systematic pruning is recjuiredexcept such as is necessary out of considerations of space, and this shouldbe done as soon as the fruits have fallen in winter. Seeds afford an
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Cedar of Lebanon, Ceifrus Lif>anu >.l \¥act p. 8S4. CET.ASTRUS 325 abundant means of propagation, and the plants also layer very freely.All of them are gross feeders, and like a deep, loamy soil. C. ARTICULATUS, Thutiberg. (Garden and Forest, 1890, fig. 73 ; C. orbiculatus, Thutiherg.) A Strong, vigorous climber, growing 30 to 40 ft. high, young stems twining,armed with a pair of spines at each bud in a young state, which become almostobsolete later. Leaves shallow-toothed, 2 to 5 ins. long, variable in shape,but usually either obovate or nearly orbicular ; with a long, slender apex, or ashort, abrupt one, narrowing at the base to stalks 4- to i in. long. Flowerstwo to four together in small axillary cymes i in. long, each flower /; in. across,green. The fruit is at first a green, pea-shaped, three-valved capsule; but whenmature the valves open and turn back, revealing their golden yellow innersurface, and the shining scarlet-coated seeds within. This beautiful climber is widel

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