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Similar to the purple. Rowen, much like the Persian, except the foliage 

 Is rather large and the flowers are reddish purple. It is a free bloomer. 

 White Rowen, not a very good white, almost pink, but is a good free 

 bloomer. Siberian White I like, as far as I have seen it. It is not a 

 very good white, but is a free bloomer. The only other I will mention 

 is the Japan tree. This is perfectly hardy, and makes a gi-and display 

 toward the middle of June, with its grayish white blooms, making a very 

 pleasing white mass. This should be planted more freely. 



The Philadelphus, more generally known as syringse, are so desirable 

 that they are, and should be, used freely in either large or small plant- 

 ings, grouped or singly. They always make a pleasing picture, will 

 stand lots of neglect and come out smiling with a grand display of pure 

 white flowers. French Mammoth, one of the best, I think, grows five 

 or six feet tall. Grandiflora is very similar, with large flowers and sweet 

 perfume. Gordons is much later, is very fine and vigorous. Lemoines 

 erecta is very sweet, with white clusters of flowers. This should be 

 planted freely. 



I will just mention the Lonicera, or bush honeysuckle. Marrowi, like 

 some other early grown shrubs, are somewhat neglected. Manchurian and 

 Tartarica Grandiflora are splendid, planted and trimmed for hedges, mak- 

 ing a very pleasing effect, or planted back of dwarf shrubs and allowed to 

 grow in their own sweet way to hide any unsightly objects, are a decided 

 success. 



The Privet, or Ligustrum. Go slow on Ovalifolium (generally known 

 as California privet), unless you are prepared to take a setback every 

 hard winter. Ligustrum Ibota is better, but last winter proved a hard 

 trial for it. It killed back badly, but recovered so that now you would 

 hardly know that it almost lost caste as a hardy shrub. The Swedish 

 privet did still better and in ordinary winters does not kill back at all. 

 But the thing that surprised me most was the little Golden, quite dwarf, 

 rarely exceeding thirty inches in height, stood the winter almost perfect. 

 Merely the very tips being touched and is now in all its golden glory, 

 the best yellow, dwarf shrub we have. 



Of the Viburnums, our old-fashioned snowball (Viburnum Sterilis) is 

 a favorite everywhere. Viburnum Opulus, or high bush cranberry, is a 

 very strong grower, with dark green foliage, large clusters of white 

 flowers in flat heads, followed in the fall with masses of bright red 

 berries, which are edible somewhat like our common cranberries. Vib. 

 dentatum is a very pretty bush variety, with clusters of white flowert 

 early in June, followed In the fall with bluish blackberries. Vib. Lantana 

 has a rich, green foliage, which hangs on well into the winter. White 

 flowers and berries, which change to pink, red, and black as they ripen, 

 make it very desirable and useful both for groups or single specimen. 

 Vib. Tomentosum, a single Japan variety, with white flowers in flat heads 

 in May, followed with small, scarlet berries turning to black. I have 

 no doubt that some of the other varieties will do well here, but will only 

 recommend those of which 1 am sure. ... 



