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THE BEST HARDY SHRUBS. 



little dwarf native shrub is so pretty and 

 delicate in its white blossoms that it is well 

 worthy of a place in the shrubbery border. 

 Flowers in June. 



Persian Lilacs, {Syringa persica.) Far 

 more delicate and pretty than the common 

 lilacs, both in leaf and blossom. The 

 bunches of flowers are frequently a foot 

 long, and weigh down the terminal slender 

 shoots so as to give the plant a very grace- 

 ful appearance. The white and the fur- 

 ple — both beautiful. The cut-leaned lilac 

 has interesting and delicate foliage. May. 



Feagkant Clethra, {Clethra almifolia.) 

 Numerous spikes of rich spicy-scented, 

 white blossoms, produced in midsummer, 

 give this shrub its principal charm — next 

 to that of being easily cultivated. 



Missouri Currant, {Ribes aureuni.) One 

 of the most popular of sweet scented shrubs. 

 Its golden yellow flowers have a charming 

 fragrance, and it grows freely in every soil. 



Crimson Currant, {Ribes sanguineum.) 

 With foliage somewhat like that of the 

 black currant, and pretty racemes of large 

 crimson blossoms j this is a very neat spring 

 flowering shrub. Unfortunately, it is not 

 entirely hardy in northern gardens, but re- 

 quires protection in winter. There is a 

 double crimson and a lahite variety — both 

 beautiful. May. 



Garland Deutzia, {Deutzia scabra.) Un- 

 questionably one of the best of all the new 

 shrubs. Its numerous white flowers are 

 not unlike those of the orange, though the 

 general habit of the plant is that of the 

 syringo, to which it is related. Everybody 

 should cultivate it ; and it grows so freely 

 from cuttings that they may easily do so. 

 May and June. 



Swamp Buttonwood, {Cephalanthus oc- 

 cidentalis.) Though, to our taste, one of 

 the richest native shTubs, this is very sel- 

 dom seen in our gardens. It is easily trans- 



planted from its native sites, and grows 

 well in the shrubbery. Its foliage is ex- 

 cellent ; in form and colour, and its white 

 flowers, agreeable. August. 



Double Dwarf Almond. So well known 

 as to need no description, and universally 

 admired. May. 



St. Peter's Wreath, {Spirea hyperici- 

 folia.) This most delicate and pretty 

 wreath-like spirea is one of the hardiest of 

 shrubs ; and though its branches are slen- 

 der, and its foliage too small to produce 

 much effect in the shrubbery, yet its nu- 

 merous white flowers render it attractive 

 while in bloom. May. 



Siberian Pea Tree, {Carragana cham- 

 lagre.) A shrub with large, yellow, pea- 

 shaped flowers, quite ornamental at the lat- 

 ter end of May or the beginning of June. 



Upright or Shrub Honeysuckles, {Lo- 

 nicera tartarica.) There are few shrubs 

 indeed, where foliage, habit, and flower are 

 counted, so entirely satisfactory as these. 

 They grow into neat, close, well shaped 

 bushes, with full foliage, and of a good 

 colour, all through the season. In spring, 

 their neat little blossoms are sprinkled pro- 

 fusely over the whole shrub, and from mid- 

 summer to autumn they are ornamented by 

 numerous crimson berries. There are two 

 colours with white and with pink blossoms, 

 both equally pretty and desirable, even in 

 the smallest collection of shrubs. May. 



Tree P^ony, {Pceony TnouLan.) Magni- 

 ficent, truly, in their flowers, are the Chi- 

 nese tree Pasonias, (often as large as a 

 man's head;) easily cuhivated, quite hardy, 

 and among the noblest low shrubs of the 

 whole catalogue. There are now a number 

 of fine sorts, — double white, double rose, 

 &c. &c.; the old double Banksii, perhaps, 

 the finest of all still. Even the single pop- 

 py-jiowered one, (P. papaveracea,) is a most 

 interesting and beautiful shrub. A good 



