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for their perfect hardiness, for their im- 

 munity from the errant rabbit's teeth, and 

 their generally accommodating ways, suiting 

 themselves to almost any soil, aspect, -or 

 climate. When to these we add the flame 

 and gold of hardy Azaleas, it seems as if 

 colour in the modern shrubbery could indeed 

 go no further. 



Many other ornamental evergreens add to 

 the effect of the shrubbery. Hollies, green 

 or variegated with silver and gold, smooth- 

 leaved or prickly, yellow - berried or red, 

 brighten it through the winter. The Laures- 

 tinus, too, in sheltered places is covered in 

 winter and early spring with its white flowers 

 and pink buds. And the Aucuba is indis- 

 pensable for many an otherwise dark spot, 

 now that we can ensure plants plentifully 

 set with handsome berries, instead of the 

 forlorn and scraggy specimens we associate 

 with front gardens (save the mark) in mean 

 streets. 



Of the usual run of "American plants," 

 so called though many, in fact the greater 



