Tassel Tree

Tassel Tree (Acacia) - Beautiful shrubs and trees, thriving in warmer countries, but a few grown out of doors do well in parts of England. A. Julibrissin.—By reducing this to a single stem and using young plants, or those cut down every year, one gets an erect stem covered with leaves as graceful as a Fern, and pretty amidst low-growing flowers. A. lophantha, though not hardy, grows freely in the open air in summer, and gives graceful verdure among flowers. It may easily be raised from seed sown early in the year to give plants fit for putting out in early summer. In Cornish and South Devon gardens various kinds thrive in the open air. A. affinis is the most common. In many cases A. affinis is grown as A. dealbata. A. verticillata flowers later in the spring. It reaches a height of 15 feet in a few years, growing in the form of a broad based cone, with its lower branches but a foot or so from the ground.