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Lonicera, Tartarian or tree honeysuckle. — This is a fine shrub, 

 very hardy, blooms freely, followed by red or yellow berries which 

 remain until fall. In color of bloom we have pink, red with white 

 stripes, white and cream color, according to variety. It should be 

 planted much more than it is. Sedebouri, a variety from California, 

 may be tender. Syringa. lilacs, all I have tried, are hardy. What 

 the newer varieties from China and Japan will do, requires time for 

 trial. We are having a variety of forms of this old choice plant, 

 but none too many, and not too much can be said in its praise. The 

 only fault is its tendency to sprout from the root. The Persian and 

 Josekea are free from this fault. Among the new forms is a 

 weeper somewhat the character of the lilmarnock willow, having a 

 white bloom and has to be grafted standard height, and one, the 

 tree or giant lilac, making a tree with a single smooth trunk 

 twenty or more feet high, blooming in July. We have reason to 

 believe they will be hardy here. 



Viburnums are, as far as tried, all hardy with one exception; 

 most of them are natives and of various characteristics, making 

 them desirable and are a class of shrubs with good leaves. The 

 snow-ball, viburnum sterilis, belongs to this class. The variety, 

 santonoides, is deserving a place in every yard; blooms well and has 

 a fine leaf; blossom-bud very conspicuous in the fall. Viburnum 

 plicatum from China, often call Japan snow-ball, is tender, even the 

 roots are destroyed by frost. The little flowering almond we must 

 have, although not fully hardy; about three years out of five, we get 

 an abundance of bloom ; the roots always survive. 



Hydrangea {paniculafa grandiflora). — This is perfectly hardy; 

 grows with me five feet high, with a fine spreading top ; is a fine, 

 if not the finest, late-blooming shrub we have, with its large heads 

 of white bloom in August and September. It is very attractive. I 

 have had it in bloom for the last sixteen years, and only once has it 

 failed in that time. It did not grow enough in the summer of 1887, 

 on account of drouth. It is well to keep it well-trimmed and in a 

 growing condition. The flowers are on the new wood. 



Rosea Pugosa. — I wish to call attention to this new variety of 

 rose from Africa. It can, and. no doubt, will, be used as a shrub, and 

 will give good satisfaction. There are three colors, — alba (white), 

 rose and red. The flowers are large, often three or more inches in 

 diameter, and fine in color, followed by bright berries, foliage dense 

 and good, remaining until late, often changing to crimson in the 

 fall. Already have plants been produced with double roses by 

 hybridizing. These, with its complete hardiness, can not fail to 

 make it a favorite. 



Chionanthus (white fringe), one of the best of shrubs, with 

 leaves like the laurel, shining all summer, as if varnished, a delicate 



