| | |species, however, except H.
| | |parviflora, can, by pruning
| | |away the lower branches, be
| | |made to form small trees.
| | |
Halesia corymbosa |Japan, in the |White, |Mr. Bean writes in _The
|province of Higo|tinted |Garden_, May 19, 1900, p.
|(Syn. |with pink |361, about this species as
|Pterostyrax |or yellow;|follows: "I do not know if
|corymbosum) |Spring |there is any authenticated
| | |instance of its having
| | |flourished in Britain or
| | |even in Europe, most plants
| | |so called being H. hispida.
| | |It was first found on the
| | |mountains of the most
| | |southern of the main
| | |islands of Japan, in the
| | |province of Higo, and may
| | |possibly not be quite so
| | |hardy as H. hispida.
| | |Judging by pictures and
| | |dried specimens, its
| | |racemes, whilst having much
| | |the same general character
| | |as that species, are
| | |shorter, broader, and more
| | |branched, and the flowers
| | |are not so numerous on the
| | |branches of the racemes,
| | |and the fruits are more
| | |downy than bristly. The
| | |flowers have the same
| | |one-sided arrangement on