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should be allowed to grow unchecked until the autumn 

 when they should be removed and planted in nursery 

 lines in the kitchen garden to acquire strength. In the 

 case of choice varieties it will be necessary to ascertain 

 whether the plants have been grafted, and thus avoid 

 the vexation of devoting time and attention to the prepara- 

 tion of a stock that may be one of the common instead 

 of a superior form. The common is frequently used as 

 a stock, and when that is the case the suckers should 

 be at once rejected. Cuttings of the ripened wood 

 taken as soon as the shrubs are leafless and inserted in 

 an outside border will root freely. 



Lilacs produce a beautiful effect when arranged singly 

 or in groups of three or more on the lawn and in the 

 shrubbery and along the margins of plantations. The 

 most desirable of the lilacs for general cultivation are : 

 Syringa rothomagensis (Rouen or Varin Lilac) an extremely 

 elegant hybrid ranging from six to eight feet high 

 and bearing large panicles of rose-lilac flowers. Alba 

 with French-white flowers and Ruhr a with rose-red 

 flowers are both desirable and excellent varieties, and 

 the following varieties of 5. vu/garis. Single Alba 

 grandiflora and Marie Legrange two beautiful white 

 forms. Charles X., Dr Lindley, Furst Lichtenstein and 

 Ville de Troyes, shades of rose-red. Dr Von Regel, Gloire 

 de Lorraine and Gloire de Moulins shades of lilac, and 

 Souvenir de Leon Spath rich crimson-purple. Double 

 Madame Abel Chateney and Madame Lemoine, pure white. 

 Charles John, red-purple, Comtesse Horace de Choiseul, light- 

 blue lilac, Emilie Lemoine, rose-lilac, Jean Bart, rose- 

 carmine, La Tour d'Auvergne, violet-purple, and Michel 

 Buchuer, pale lilac. 



VIBURNUMS. The species of viburnums are numerous 

 and the greater proportion are more or less attractive 

 and worthy of attention where a large area is available 

 for hardy shrubs, but for planting generally and where 



