DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



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Fig. 2060. Eleagnus Longipes. 



above and very silvery on the under side ; 

 the whole plant has a beautiful odor. If 

 this shrub proves to be hardy, there is no 

 shrub will give as much pleasure ; there are 

 two colors, blue and white. 



4. Chionanthus Virginica (White Fringe)- 

 This will grow from 5 to 8 feet high in rich 

 deep soil ; is also a hardy gem, producing 

 racemes of white fringe-like flowers about 

 the first of June, followed by purple clusters 

 of fruit, like grapes, in the fall. 



5. Corylus var. purpurea — 

 (Purple leaved hazel) — This 

 plant is by all odds the best 

 purple foliage plant for gen- 

 eral purposes we have and very 

 hardy ; it is very showy at a 

 distance. It will grow to 10 

 feet high, but can be kept 

 dwarf by trimming. 



6. Daphne mezereum {rti- 

 brum and album) should be in 

 our collection of shrubs from 

 the fact that they are , the 

 earliest flowering shrubs we 

 have, and of very sweet per- 

 fume. This plant is a native 

 of Niagara Falls and is very 

 hardy ; flowers before leafing 

 out ; it grows to a height of 

 5 feet. 



7. D. crenata, single white. 

 — Will grow to 7 feet high; 

 all the deutzias are beautiful 

 shrbs, and we cannot aff'ord to 

 leave all of them out of the list. 



8. D. crenata flore pleno — 

 Double pink flowers in racems 

 in the month of June, 8 feet 

 high. 



9. D. (Pride of Rochester) 

 — Double white tinged with 

 pink, a very beautiful variety, 

 but I think it a little tenderer 

 than the last. This one is 



useful for florists' work, to cut from. 



10. D. gracilis — - This one is of a 

 dwarf bushy habit, very hardy, pure white, 

 single flowers in racemes completely covering 

 the plant, good to force in the greenhouse, 

 also good to cut for florists' work, will flower 

 in May ; about 4 feet high ; will flower at 

 Easter when forced. 



11. Eleagnus longipes — Silver thorn of 

 which there are several varieties ; this one 

 has the most beautiful foliage of a greenish 



