| |soon disappears before the
| | |birds. The tree grows
| | |rapidly and generally
| | |attains a height of about
| | |12 or 15 feet; the leaves
| | |are large and downy. The
| | |wayfaring tree should be
| | |more planted in English
| | |gardens. It will grow
| | |almost anywhere. There are
| | |two variegated-leaved
| | |varieties, but these we
| | |know little about, and we
| | |care more for the type than
| | |any golden variegation.
| | |
V. macrocephalum |China and Japan.|Pure white|This must be included, but
|Introduced from | |it is not very hardy. Mr.
|China in 1844 by| |Bean, writing of it in _The
|Fortune | |Garden_, November 17, 1900,
| | |p. 361, says: "The shrub
| | |known under this name is a
| | |cultivated form of a
| | |Chinese species, in which
| | |all the flowers have, under
| | |artificial influences,
| | |become sterile. The wild
| | |plant to which it belongs
| | |is also in cultivation, and
| | |is known as V. Keteleeri.
| | |In this type plant the
| | |middle of the truss is
| | |filled with perfect
| | |flowers, the edges only
| |