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Book: Landscape Gardening in Japan, 1912
Chapter: Chapter 11. Garden Vegetation

Flowering bushes

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Under the head of flowering bushes may be also included many varieties of the Olea, mentioned among evergreens. The Wistaria chinensis (Murasaki-fuji), and Wistaria brachybotrys (Shira-fuji), play an important part in gardens, and, classed with them as a Yellow Wistaria, is the Stachyurus pr�cox (Ki-fuji). Other flowering shrubs are:�Daphne zenkwa (Fuji-modoki), Daphne jesoensis (Naniwazu), Daphne kiusiana (Kosho-no-ki), Daphne odora (Jinchoke), Hydrangea hirta (Yama-ajisai), Hydrangea hortensis, var. japonica (Beni-gaku), Hydrangea hortensis, var. ajisai (Ajisai), Hydrangea thunbergii (Amacha), Lespedeza bicolor (Hagi), Lespedeza bicolor, var. sieboldi (Natsu-hagi), Lespedeza buergeri (Ki-hagi), Lespedeza cyrtobotrya (Maruba-hagi), Lespedeza tomentosa (Shira-hagi), Lespedeza virgata (Makiye-hagi), Kerria japonica (Yamabuki), P�onia moutan (Ki-botan and Yamato-botan), Cytisus scoporius (Enishida), Acacia farnesiana (Kiugo-kwan), Spri�a cantoniensis (Kodemari), Spirc�a japonica (Shimotsuke), and Deutzia sieboldiana (Utsugi).