Coloured Laburnums.
A Garden Corner.
TN a very old garden in InverA cargill I ►saw, many years ago, one of those natural curiosities that are reared to delight and mystify, and so far as I know the tree is still alive, although now over sixty years old. It was a yellow laburnum on which had been grafted both the pink and rosy purple forms, so that the unique effect was obtained of all three colours being visible on the tree at one time. Of course the yellow predominated, with its fcink counterpart, L. Adamsi, also much in evidence and making quite a pretty show bv contrast. The other form, L. pu; purea, was cf a much stockier habit with smaller racemes. Where one s taste is for freak show, similar effects are easily possible, as for instance in growing several kinds’ of apples and pears on the one tree. L. Adamsi is a very showy tree, but seldom seen about Christchurch. L. purpurea I have not seen here at all. T. D. LENNIE. J -
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 14
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174Coloured Laburnums. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 14
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