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the ability to stand severe cold. The Chinese and 

 Japanese buddleias, which are fairly hardy in the 

 North when planted in a sheltered location, are in 

 this class. The false indigo (Amorpha fruticosa) 

 and the blue spirea (Caryopteris mastacanthus) 

 have the same relative hardiness. The beautiful 

 blue hybrids of ceanothus are less to be relied 

 upon above the latitude of Washington, though 

 Gloire de Versailles has pulled through the win- 

 ter near New York. This is a fine variety to 

 contrast with the hardy native New Jersey tea 

 (Ceanothus americanus), which has white flowers. 



Several shrubs with pea-shaped bloom are useful 

 for secondary effects. Pink, purplish and white 

 blossoms are furnished by four species of tick tre- 

 foil (Desmodium). These bloom late and their 

 growth is such that they may be placed in any 

 herbaceous border. The bladder senna (Colutea 

 arborescens) will add yellow tinged with red and 

 there are some fine new forms of broom some- 

 times listed now under cytisus instead of genista. 

 The Schipka cytisus ( C. Schipkaensis), with whitish 

 blossoms, is quite hardy. 



The dwarf barberries are worthy of a place in 

 the garden for three good reasons blossoms, fo- 

 liage and fruit. The common European barberry 

 (Berberls vulgaris), either the type or the kind with 

 purple foliage, ought to be grown more on the 

 garden's edge than it is; in autumn, especially, it 

 is splendidly effective. Then there are the beau- 

 tiful species of elder .(Sambucus), of sumac (Rhus) 



