A GARDEN OF 



planted with ease and safety. Because of its 

 vigorous habit it is advisable to give it a place 

 somewhat in the background. In time it 

 becomes quite a tree. 



The Andromeda is one of the most beautiful 

 of all our native shrubs. It blossoms in April. 

 Its flowers are drooping and bell-shaped. Of 

 this plant Emerson says, "Few exotics have 

 such elegance of appearance as this," and he 

 was a close observer of nature. 



Clethra alnifolia, or Sweet-pepper Bush, is 

 worthy a place in any garden, and ought by all 

 means to be included in every collection of 

 American plants. It has fine foliage, and its 

 spikes of white flowers, produced during nearly 

 the entire summer, are as attractive to us as 

 they are to the bees, w r hich delight in its spicy 

 sweetness. It is of the easiest culture. 



Hamamelis, or Witch-hazel, is a native shrub 

 which has many and peculiar attractions. It is 

 equally interesting to the farmer, who finds it 

 putting forth its fringy flowers just as the first 

 snows begin to fall; to the artist, who sees in 

 it most fantastic lines of leaf and blossom, and 

 to the botanist, who sees in its strarige habit of 

 flowering at the beginning of winter a hint of 

 a descent from some form which had, no doubt, 



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