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or lawn. The illustrations used have been engraved from photographs of speci- 

 mens growing on the Central Experimental Farm. 



I. Lilac Chas. X. Syringa vulgaris Chas. X. — Lilacs are among the 

 best known and most beautiful of the spring flowering shrubs and are univer- 

 sally admired. They are easily grown and flower freely. Some varieties, how- 

 ever, produce flowers in much greater abundance than others. There are about 

 ten species in all of this genus, and of some of these there are many varieties, 

 but none have produced, under cultivation, forms giving so great a variety of 

 character of bush and color of flower as the common lilac, Syringa vulgaris, and 

 it is one of the most beautiful of these forms known as Chas. X., which will 

 first claim our attention Fig. 855 is from a photograph taken in June, 1894, 



Fio. 856. — Variegated Weigelia, 



of a specimen about 4 feet high on one of the lawns. This variety is rather 

 dwarf in habit and slow in growth, probably because there is a great tax annu- 

 ally on its powers in the profuse production of bloom with which it is covered. 

 No other lilac in the large collection now brought together on the experimental 

 farms blooms so profusely as Chas. X., and the bush is perfectly hardy. The 

 flowers are of a deep purplish lilac, fragrant and borne on large trusses. 



2. Woody Caragana. Caragana frutescens. — This is one of a family of 

 most useful and desirable shrubs, the most familiar member of which is the 

 Siberian pea tree, Caragana arborescens, which is referred to under ornamental 

 hedges. Caragana frutescens is also a native of Siberia, but is a less rapid 

 grower and rarely grows higher than 3 to 4 feet, while the Siberian pea 



