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8 — Viburnum Lantana: wayfaring tree; twenty feet high; any 

 soil; small white flowers clustered in dense flat cymes; 

 blossoms in May and Jtine; scarlet berries follow. 



9 — Amygdalus communis (or Prunus Amygdalus), rosea plena: 

 double rose-flowered almond; peach-like tree, sometimes 

 ten to twenty-five feet high; any soil; flowers large, pink 

 and showy, before the leaves ; blossoms in April or May. 



lo^Hydrangea paniculata: hydrangea; ten to twenty feet high, 

 tree-like; any well drained soil, with plenty of moisture; 

 flowers white, in large loose panicles, less heavy and dense 

 than in Hydrangea p., grandiflora, but more pleasing in 

 many ways; blossoms in August and September. 



This border requires eighty-eight shrubs to plant it. These 

 are divided among the ten varieties as follows; of number i, 

 two are required; of number 2, eleven; of number 3, nine; of 

 number 4, fourteen; of number 5, nine; of number 6-a, eleven; 

 of number 6-6, eight; of number 7, fifteen; of number 8, seven; 

 of number 9, one; of number 10, one. 



A twenty-five foot comer planting of 

 perpetual fragrance 



Same size comer planted with three 

 of the commonest wayfarers 



SHRUBS IN SWEET-SCENTED BORDER 



I — Callicarpa purpurea: purple "beauty fruit"; four feet high; 

 any good soil; small pink flowers in abundance; blossoms 



