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A LIST OF SELECT SHRUBS. 



their grounds — laying out gardens for the first 

 time, or extending their pleasure grounds. 

 There are, in commercial gardens, some 

 hundred species of shrubs, most of which 

 possess points of interest, in foliage, flower 

 or fruit, and nearly all deserve a place in a 

 large shrubbery. Only a few of them, 

 however, are needed for small gardens, and 

 among such, requiring only good common 

 soil, and no protection in winter, in this 

 latitude, we give the following list, as com- 

 prising the most desirable 25 hardy deciduous 

 shrubs : 



Pink Mezereon, Daphne viczereum; Japan 

 Quince, two sorts, white and scarlet, Cy- 

 donia japonica; Double Almond, Amydalus 

 pumila pL; Double Purple Tree Pa;ony, 

 PfBonia moutan Banksii; White Persian 

 Lilac, Syringa persica alba; Chinese White 

 Magnolia, Magnolia conspicua; Soulange's 

 Magnolia, M. soulangiana; Sweet-scented 

 Magnolia, M. glauca; White Fringe Tree, 

 Chio7ianth2is Virginica; Garland Deutzia, 

 Deutzia scabra; Carolina Syringo, Philadel- 

 phus grandijlorus ; Broad-leaved Laburnum, 

 Lytissus laburnum latifolia; Rose Acacia, 

 Rohinia hispida; White Tartarian Tree Ho- 

 neysuckle, Lonicera tartarica; Red Tartarian 

 Tree Honeysuckle; Double White Haw- 

 thorn, Crategus oxycantha, alba pi.; Double 

 Pink Hawthorn; Sweet-scented Shrub, Ca- 

 lycanlhus florida; Dwarf White Horse Chest- 

 nut, Pav'ia macrostachya; Fragrant Clethra, 

 Clethra alnifolia; Oak-leavod Hydrangea 

 Hydrangea qiurcifolia; Venetian Sumac, 

 Rhuscotinus; Purple Burning-bush, Euony- 

 mus atropurpureus; Buffalo Berry, male and 

 female, Shepherdia argcntia. 



The foregoing will furnish a succession 

 of flowers or ornamental fruit from March 

 to November. 



A selection of hardy deciduous shrubs oj 

 rapid and bulky groicth, suited for masses or 



screens, for immediate cfTect, is the follow- 

 ing: Common Privet, Ligustrum vulgare; 

 Carolina Syringo, P hi/ adclphus gran di/l 0771s; 

 English Fly Honeysuckle, Lfmicera xylos- 

 teu7n; Cornelian Cherry, Co7nus mascula; 

 Common White Lilac, Sijringa vulgaris, 

 alb.; English Filberts, Coryhis avellana; 

 Common Buckthorn, RJianmus cathartica; 

 Sea Buckthorn, Hippophea rhamTvoides. 



A feiv of the fi7iest hardy viiies, or cli7nb- 

 i?ig shrubs, are the following: Large Flower- 

 ing Trumpet Creeper, Bignonia grandiflora; 

 Queen of the Prairies Rose, Rosa ratiafolia; 

 Chinese Wistaria, Wistaria sinejisis; Sweet- 

 scented Clematis, Clematis jiam7nul a; Dou- 

 ble Purple Clematis, C verticella, pi.; 

 Monthly Fragrant Honeysuckle, Lonicera 

 bclgica; Chinese Twining Honeysuckle, L. 

 flexuosa; Yellow Monthly Trumpet Honey- 

 suckle, Lonicera fiazerii. 



The following is a list of hai dy shrubs, 

 re7narkablejor thefragra7ice of their flowers : 

 Mezereum, Daphne mezereum; Fragrant 

 Clethra, Clethra alnifolia; Missouri Cur- 

 rant, Ribes aureum; Sweet-scented Magno- 

 lia, Magnolia glauca; Chinese AVhite do., 

 M. conspicua; Chinese Purple do., M. pur- 

 purea; Soulange's do., M. so7ilangia7ia; 

 Common Syringo, Philadelphus corona7ius; 

 Sweet-scented Shrub, Calycanthus florida. 

 Fragra7it vines or climbiiig shrubs: Persian 

 and other Lilacs ; Sweet-scented Clematis, 

 C. fla7nmula; Chinese Wistaria, Wistaria 

 sine7isis; Chinese Twining Honeysuckle, 

 Lo7iicera flexuosa; Monthly Fragrant do., 

 L. Belgica; White Jasmine, Jasmi7ium offi- 

 cinale. 



A list of hardy shrubs that loill groTv in 

 wet places: Willow-leaved Sporia, Spo7'ia 

 salicifolia; Tomentosa do., S. tomentosa; 

 Swamp Globe Flower, Aphalanthus occiden- 

 talis; Leatherwood, Dirca pahiatris; Sweet 

 Willow, Salex lucida, and all other willows ; 



