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the flowers open, as the colour fades quickly, and a 

 little dwarf bush, Fortune's white spirea, that I have 

 seen at the florist's. Next the old-fashioned purple 

 lilac, that seems to hold its own against all newcomers 

 for garden use, the white tree lilac, the fragrant white 

 mock orange or syringa (Coronarius), the Japanese 

 barberry of yellow flowers and coral berries, the 

 three deutzias, two being the tall crenata and scabra 

 and the third the charming low- growing gracilis, 

 the old-fashioned snowball or Guelder rose (vibur- 

 num opulus sterilis), the weigelias, rose-pink and white, 

 the white summer-flowering hydrangea (paniculata 

 grandiflora), and the brown-flowered, sweet-scented 

 strawberry shrub (calycanthus floridus). 



"Truly a small slice from the loaf the catalogues 

 offer," you say. Yes; but you must remember that 

 our wild nursery has a long chain to add to these. 



In looking over the list of shrubs, it seems to me 

 that the majority of them, like the early wild flowers, 

 are white, but then it is almost as impossible to have 

 too many white flowers as too many green leaves. 



September 15. I was prevented from finishing 

 this until to-day, when I have a new domestic event 

 to relate. Maria, no longer a music mistress, has 

 leased the Opal Farm, it seems, and will remain with 



