JANUARY 



IRISH GARDENING. 



in a comparatively Nouny condition, and is 

 really better as a shrub than as a tree. There 

 is neither time nor space to deal individuall}' 

 with the merits of each individual shrub, so they 

 must be t.-dcen in groups, and a list of all cH 



ing- oversevent}- species in llower in April, which 

 is remarkable. The seventy include some of our 

 most valuable garden plants ; although many of 

 them are not at their best until May they will be 

 dealt with under that month. The double and 



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marked and slead 

 increase in the nimiber of shrubs in ilower, an( 

 before that month has passed over eighty specie 

 will have opened their flowers since New Year' 

 Dav. Of these, eleven have ceased to flower, leav 



single peach, the llowcring currant (Ribes san- 

 guineum), also Ribes aureum, snowv mespilus, 

 almond, pears, chenies, plums, skimmias are 

 all open and gay. r.crbcrls Mahonia aquifolium, 

 in man\ nice v.irieties. with sweetly-scented 

 (lowers, brightens the shrubberies, and B. 

 Darwinii is jusl commencing. The .\melan- 



