THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



artistic taste among the other shrubs of the gar- 

 den. Few small gardens can make good use of 

 purple foliage. 



''Deutzia gracilis. The gracilis is one of the 

 most beautiful of all the deutzias. Its delicate 

 foliage of rather light green, its snowy flowers 

 and its somewhat bending form, make it one of 

 the fairest ornaments of the home grounds. Its 

 height is three feet, its breadth from two to four 

 feet. It blooms in May and June. Its soil may 

 be any well-drained sort, and its position any 

 slightly sheltered aspect." 



So we hurry down the alphabet. The list is 

 short for several good reasons, one being that 

 it is well to give other Hsts from season to sea- 

 son. No doubt our inaccuracies would distress a 

 botanist or scientific gardener, but we convey 

 the information, such as it is, to our fellow 

 citizens, and they use it. In the last ten years 

 we have furnished to our amateurs thousands of 

 shrubs and plants, at the same reduced rates for 

 a few specimens each which we pay for them by 

 the hundred. 



But of the really good sorts are there shrubs 



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