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show to the best advantage. It will grow in any moder- 

 ately good garden soil, but should not be planted in too 

 moist or exposed positions. For covering fences it has few 

 equals. 



Golden Bells, Forsythia suspense/,. — A very beautiful 

 shrub covered with bright yellow, bell-shaped, four-petaled 

 flowers on the bare branches in spring. Flowers on very 

 slender peduncles. Branches long, recurving, or hanging 

 with simple and trifoliate leaves. Forms broad, graceful 

 masses five or six feet high and often considerably broader. 

 Also cultivated under the name of F. Fortunei. 



F. viridissima is a shrub of stouter habit with recurv- 

 ing branches and comparatively large, dark-green, broadly 

 lanceolate leaves and numerous golden-yellow flowers late 

 in spring. These are fine in groups of three or more or as 

 single specimen plants on the lawn. All are excellent for 

 planting in rocky places. 



Lilac, Syringa. — The lilacs are the most popular of all 

 ■flowering shrubs. None are more useful in ornamental 

 gardening. 



The common lilac (8. vulgaris) had originally lilac 

 or pale violet flowers, but is now found in innumer- 

 able varieties both single and double. The pure white 

 variety is oue of the best of these. Next come : the large- 

 flowered white, alba grand i flora ; Charles X., with reddish 

 purple flowers; cceridea, of a bright bluish color; violaeea, 

 deep violet, a fine form ; and gramdiflora, with bright pur- 

 plish-red flowers in large panicles. They flower in spring. 



The Chinese lilac (S. Chinensis) is a much lower shrub, 

 about four feet high, with small ovate-lanceolate leaves and 



