Pyrus ar but if oil a or Aroma floribunda can be bought Winter, 

 from some of the wholesale nurserymen at a very small price Hardy 

 per hundred. It is a vigorous grower, and after it has been cheap 

 planted twelve months it should be cut down, when it will Shrubs 

 shoot up again freely and make good compact bushes, which 

 are profusely covered with sweet-scented white flowers, and 

 later with small black fruit. In the Autumn the leaves turn a 

 bright clear red, and remain in that state from ten days to a 

 fortnight, according to the weather. 



Euonymus europteus, or common Spindlewood, treated in 

 the same fashion, that is to say cut down in the Spring when 

 it gets at all leggy and bare below, will make a fine free-growing 

 bed of rich green colour, covered in its season with rosy-pink 

 seed-cases, and will require no care or attention except weeding 

 while the plants are young. 



Rosa rubrifolla. This is very seldom grown in England, 

 nor does it, I think, figure generally in the nurserymen's 

 catalogues here, but it is largely used on the Continent for 

 hedges, and can be bought anywhere in France or Germany, 

 strong plants at 6d. a piece, with of course a reduction if bought 

 in any quantity. It grows fast, and, if pegged down, makes a 

 very showy bed. The flower is a pretty pink, though insignifi- 

 cant, but the fruit is showy, and both wood and leaf are of a soft 

 downy plum-colour. If planted near a mass of Golden Elder 

 or Golden Sympboricarpos^ the effect is brilliant and pleasing. 



Rosa rugosa^ the Japanese Rose, is, of course, well known, 

 and the wealth of odorous flower, especially of the white variety, 

 is not to be despised ; but the fine haws through August and 

 September are its chief merit, being large, abundant, and showy. 

 The rough hirsute stems, too, show up well when the leaf is 



