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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



LIST OF THE BEST ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING 



TO SEASONS OF BLOOM. 



Most of the following shrubs will look best when planted in positions where several 

 of the same kind help to form part of a shrubbeiy border, or a mass of shrubbery. 

 Many of them, however, will form just as fine individual specimen-; when planted 

 singly, as will those recommended in one of the following lists for individual plant- 

 ing : — 



SHRUBS BLOOMIXG IX EARLY SPRING. 



Common Mezereum or Daphne {Daphne Mezereum). 

 Flowering Quince (Pyras {cydonia) japonica). 

 Garland Flower (Daphne Cneontm). 

 Golden Bell (Forsythia intermedia) . 

 Lilacs (Syringa vulgaris, named sorts). 

 Snow Garland or Spiraea (Spiraea arguta). 

 Missouri or Sweet-scented Currant (Rihes aureum). 



SHRUBS BLOUMIX<: IX SPRIXC; AXI) EARLY SUMMER. 



Broom, in several colours (Cytisus, in variety). 



Caragana or Siberian Pea-shrub (Caragana frutcscens). 



Honeysuckles, bush varieties (Lonicera tatarica). 



Honeysuckle, dwarf (Lonicera Alhertii). 



Japanese rose (Rosa rugosa). 



Mock orange (Philadelphus , in variety). 



Meadow Sweet or Van Houtte's spir^a (Spiraea Van Houttei). 



Snowball shrub (Viburnum Opulus sterile). 



Weigela (Diervilla hyhrida Eva EathJce). 



SHRUBS BLOOMING IN SUMMER AND EARLY AUTUMN. 



Ash-leaved spiraea (Spiro'a sorhifolia). 



Dwarf spiraea (Spircpa japonica, Anthony Waterer). 



Bladder-Senna {Colutea arhorescens). 



Rose Acacia (Rohinia hispida). 



Shrubby Cinqe-foil (Potentilla fruticosa). 



Shrubby St. John's Wort (Hypericum Kalmianum). 



Sweet Pepper bush (Clethera alnifolia). 



Summer-flowering hydrangea (Hydrangea arhorescens g7-andi flora). 



Hydrangea (Hydrangea panicxilata grandi^ora). 



Smoke tree (Rhus Cotinus). 



Bush clover (Lespedeza hicolor). 



BEST SHRUBS WITH COLOURED FOLIAGE. 



Golden-leaved mock orange (PJiiladelphus coronai ins anreis). 

 Golden-leaved elder (Satnlmctis nigra aureis). 

 Golden-leaved ninebark (Neillia opulifolia aurea). 

 Golden-leaved wafer ash (Ptelea trifoliala aurea). 

 Purple-leaved barberry (Berheris vulgaris purpurea). 

 Variegated-leaved dogwood (Coruus alha variegata). 

 Variegated-leaved weigrlii (Diervilla rosea variegata). 



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