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glauca, Azalea viscosa, and Itea Virginica. The 

 Magnolia blooms for a long while, one bud suc- 

 ceeding the other, until a month or more has 

 passed. Much more might be said for this fra- 

 grant shrub, but that recent writers in the 

 Monthly have so fully described it. The Azalea 

 is our native one of the woods, and its waxy- 

 white flowers must have been gathered by many 

 of the young folks in their rambles. But the 

 Itea is not near so well known as it should be, 

 for when covered with its spikes of white flowers 

 it is so beautiful and uncommon as to at once 

 attract the eye. 



But to come to those which may be called 

 strictly July flowering shrubs, it will be found 

 the list, though not extensive, is ample. There 

 are quite a lot of Spiraeas, the best of the older 

 ones being Billardii with pink flowers in panicles; 

 callosa, pink, and callosa, white, with flowers in a 

 flat head ; salicifolia, white, with pink tint, and 

 flowers in long panicles; and paniculata, pink, 

 with flowers in a more bunchy head than Billar- 

 dii. Then there is the tomentosa, with its ligjfit 

 purple flowers, which does not flower until the 

 end of the month or August. We have, too, for 

 July display, the Colutea arborescens, Weigela 

 hortensis nivea, Yucca filamentosa, Hydrangea 

 quercifolia and paniculata grandiflora, Eubus 

 ordoratus, Cornus sericea, Potentilla fruticosa 

 and Vitex agnus castis. The Colutea has nearly 

 done flowering by July, but its bladder-like seed, 

 pods, with their claret- colored tint, make as 

 much display as do its preceding flowers. It is 

 not generally known that the Weigela above 

 named, flowers through the Summer; but they 

 may be cut from it all the season, and very beau- 

 tiful they are too. The Yucca or Adam's Needle 

 is so common that it seems known to every one. 

 Its long scape, thickly set with white lily-like 

 flowers, makes it a conspicuous object wherever 

 planted. The Hydrangea quercifolia and pani- 

 culata grandiflora are both white, the former not 

 so clear as the latter. The quercifolia, flowers in 

 the early part of the month, the paniculata 

 grandiflora not until the latter part. The last 

 named, though but a few years since much 

 known here, has taken a front place in gardens, 

 its beautiful flowers, together with the immense 

 size of the panicles, entitling it to the place it has 

 received. And then it is so hardy and such a 

 strong grower that it cannot be done without. 

 The Rubus odoratus, with its pur})lish pink blos- 

 soms, is very showy. Like other Rubus, it will 

 throw up suckers, and in some places this would 



be objectionable. Cornus sericea has large flat 

 heads of white flowers, and contrasting with the 

 other shrubs is very nice. The Potentilla fruti- 

 cosa is yellow, and flowering when this color is 

 scarce in shrubbery, would make it valuable 

 even though it were not the pretty thing it is. 

 It flowers very abundantly, and forms a bushy 

 shrub. The last on the list is the Vitex. This 

 flowers at the latter part of July aud through 

 August. Its prettily divided leaves and panicles 

 of pale lilac flowers claim for it a good position 

 amongst the others. This list is meant as giving 

 some of our July flowering shrubs such as are to 

 be obtained at most nurseries. 



EVENING PRIMROSES. 



BY WILLIAM FALCONER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



These are amongst the most gaudy floriferous 

 and thrifty of late Summer blooming plants, and 

 surely about the easiest grown. I admit that 

 from June onwards they are in their glory, but 

 many sioecies and varieties in late Summer, from 

 increased growth, of necessity become more glori- 

 ous. Amongst them we have tall growing sorts 

 like b. Lamarckiana and fragrans, and decum- 

 bent carpets as in trichocalyx and csespitosa; 

 white flowers as in the last named two, corono- 

 pifolia and speciosa, often changing with age to 

 pink or rose ; and few plants have more bril- 

 liant yellow blooms than those of Missouriensia 

 and Lamarckiana, besides they are so big— 4 to 

 6 inches across. Nearly all are more or less 

 fragrant, fragrans, csespitosa, marginata, and 

 eximia, being particulaxly odoriferous. As a 

 truly hardy and neat perennial, fruticosa var. line- 

 aris is one of the best, as little bright yellow 

 flowers being profusely borne all Summer, most 

 lavishly in June and July. All are not equally 

 fond of the night as their name might suggest, 

 for many species are open by day, as, for in- 

 stance, f. linearis, speciosa, taraxicifolia, and tri- 

 chocalyx. 



Many of our finest Evening Primroses are na- 

 tives of west of the Mississippi States, as Califor- 

 nia, Utah, Missouri, and Texas, and consequently 

 several are not reliably hardy. It is advisable to 

 winter the more tender sorts — biennials or per- 

 ennials in frames, and where practicable, save 

 seeds and raise seedlings annually. So far as I am 

 acquainted they all bloom the first season from 

 early seedlings. Some of the true perennials, 

 and particularly the prostrate-growing ones, are 

 shy seeding in our garden, but the tall growers 



