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Ornamental Shrubs. 



the leaves of which are covered with hairs on both 

 surfaces. 



There has been recently introduced a class of hybrids 



some of which are known to 

 be of a superior value. They 

 are the products of the skill 

 and ingenuity of M. Lemoine, 

 to whom the horticultural 

 world has become so greatly 

 indebted as a hybridist. Most 

 of them are not yet in culti- 

 vation in America, but doubt- 

 less will be at an early day. 

 Among others they include 

 the following : P. lemoinei av- 

 alanche, the best known, is de- 

 scribed as having long, slender 

 branches, and very large, white, fra- 

 grant blossoms, bending the stems 

 under their weight. It is a bush from 

 six to eight feet in height, and has 

 often been figured in the magazines and catalogues, and is 

 more or less familiar. P. lemoinei candelabre is another free- 

 flowering variety, and has white flowers of unusual size, 

 and prettily dentated and undulated. This is quite dwarf 

 in habit, and makes a charming, compact little mass of 

 blossoms. P. lemoinei erectus is an upright bush, and has 

 small, very sweet flowers, while two others, called sheaf of 

 snow and Mont Blanc have large, fragrant flowers like the 

 others of this class, completely covering the shrub at the 



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