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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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me red-brown, j)ccling character. The leavesarc on the whole larger, much softer, more slender, more spreading and 440 CRYPTO:\rKRIA—CUDRANIA wider apart on the branchlct, than those of the tyjie ; they and the younjj^shoots beinjj a glaucous green in the summer, changing in autumn andwinter to a lironzy red, very distinct, and remarkable among evergreens atthat season. The leaves are reflexed at the tip, rather than incurved as inordinary C. japonica. The whole tree is more bushy and dense than thetype, and often falls over by its own weight ; the trunks are very supple, andallow the crowns of trees 20 ft. high to reach the ground without breaking.This fomi produces cones (rarely) which do not differ from those of the type.It bears pruning very well, and is often improved by it ; if trees become top-heavy, they may be headed down far enough to become self-supporting.Introduced from Japan in 1861 by Mr J. Gould Veitch. There is a dwarfdense-habited variety of it called elegans nana.
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CUDRANIA TRILOBA. CUDRANIA TRILOBA, Hance. SILKWORM Thorn. URTICACE^. A deciduous shrub or small tree, 20 ft. high, with a dense, roundedhead of thorny branches; young shoots quite smooth. Leaves alternate,oval, obovate, or ovate; either entire or with three shallow rounded lobesat the apex; \\ to 4 ins. long, ; to 2 ins. wide; dark green, smooth;stalk ?. to % in. long, slightly downy. Flowers green, crowded in a littleball about .?, in. diameter, the sexes on different plants. The balls areproduced during July, either singly or (usually) in pairs, from the leaf-axilsof the current years growth, each on a downy stalk \ in. long. Themale tree only appears to be in cultivation, and a head of fruit has notyet been produced in this country; but it is an elliptical, hard, shiningmass ij ins. broad and i in. long, as seen in wild specimens. Native of China, where it is widely spread; introduced to Britain in1872. This tree, which is nearly allied to the Osage orange, but differsin flowering

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