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and is also desirable to plant because of its 

 strength and vigour. 



DEUTZIA CRENATA bears a white flower in June 

 and grows into a large shrub of graceful habit. It 

 should be planted against a background of trees 

 or hedges, on the outskirts of the lawn, with some 

 low-growing plant at its base, such as German Iris, 

 for the lower parts of the branches are bare. 



The FLOWERING ALMOND was always to be found 

 in New England dooryards. It is a small shrub 

 bearing myriads of tiny Rose-shaped flowers strung 

 along its branches before the leaves appear; there 

 is a white and a pink variety. It is a good shrub 

 for the garden as it blooms very early, and its 

 associations are old-fashioned and respectable. 



Another old-fashioned shrub about which much 

 mystery and sentiment hangs is the CALYCANTHUS 

 FLORIDUS, or Strawberry Shrub, whose reddish- 

 brown inconspicuous blossoms have a strong Pine- 

 apple odour, quite pungent and very acceptable 

 to childish nostrils. Be sure to have two or three 

 of these bushes clumped together somewhere in 

 the yard against the fence, at the end of a path 

 slightly secluded for your children would miss an 



