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double or semi-double varieties, white or red. The yellow 

 rose (JR. lutea) is a floriferous, compact, rounded shrub, 

 three or four feet high, with bright yellow blossoms in 

 June. li. multiflora is a small rose of very slender habit 

 with long, pinnate leaves and terminal panicles of single, 

 white, anemone-like flowers. It is a quick grower, useful 

 in rockeries and on walls and verandas. The recently in- 

 troduced crimson rambler is a double red variety of this 

 species. The Japanese rose (.Rosa rugosa) is a robust and 

 healthy shrub from five to fifteen feet high, with thickish, 

 bright green foliage and numerous large, single flowers of a 

 bright rose-color. There is also an old white variety and 

 many new single and semi-double forms. The flowers are 

 followed by clusters of showy coral-red hips. This rose is 

 very beautiful in groups on the lawn. It may be used 

 with good effect in the rockery and in mixed shrubberies. 

 These kinds are perfectly healthy and hardy; they do well in 

 any good garden soil. 



Cotoneaster^ Cotoneaster Simonsii. A small, almost 

 evergreen shrub with leathery, dark green leaves and in- 

 significant white flowers followed by showy fruit. Nice in 

 a rockery in masses. 



Juneberry, Amelancliier Canadensis. A slender shrub 

 of woods and thickets, with numerous racemes of showy- 

 white flowers and ovate or oblong serrate leaves. There 

 are many forms or sub-species of this, viz.: Botryapium, 

 alnifolia, and oblongifolia, all of equally ornamental 

 value. The European species, A. vulgaris, is also a 

 very showy plant. They are excellent for producing fine 

 woodland effects is company with other shrubs and trees 



