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James H. Veitch^ &c. make it one of our 

 most valuable flowering trees. While the late- 

 flowering American Bird-Cherry, C. Serotina 

 or Virginiana^ prolongs the season of this 

 delightful family into Azalea and Rhodo- 

 dendron time. 



Let us not forget who, indeed, can forget 

 them who once has seen their lovely deep pink 

 blossoms burst from the bare, leafless twigs 

 among the vineyards of Southern France? 

 the Peach and the Almond, marvels of colour 

 against the blue of sea or purple of mountain. 

 Single and double alike should be in every 

 garden. Nor can we do without plenty of 

 the Snowy Mespilus, Amelanchier botryapium, 

 a treasure both in spring and in autumn. 

 Have we not seen the " golden rain " of 

 Laburnum against the grey stone of house 

 and college in Oxford a vision of beauty 

 that never fades ? And, beyond all other 

 delights, a drive just now, no matter where, 

 through the most romantic of parks or the 

 most prosaic of suburbs, is a perfect enchant- 

 ment; for wild and tame Hawthorn, May's 



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