40 SPRING EFFECTS ON THE LA IVN. 



red and white, and still others glow with rich salmon color. 

 There is a large-flowered kind recently introduced from 

 Japan called Cydonia Japonica grandiflora, hearing flowers 

 nearly double the size of our common form, with richly 

 blended colors of salmon red and white. Do not forget, there- 

 fore, to use the different varieties of these Japan quinces. 



The white flowering dogwood ( Cornu8 florida) should 

 stand on every lawn. It is hardy, picturesque in growth,. 

 and charming in spiing with its masses of pure white flow- 

 ers, and is, moreover, an American shrub or tree, and there- 

 fore deserves employment for American planting. 



There are two or three dainty little flowers that come very- 

 early in spring, before the leaves appear. I dwell on them 



with special pleasure because 

 their beauty is shy and mod- 

 est, more like that of the 

 violet, and because they af- 

 ford a strong contrast to the 

 glowing brilliance of the Ja- 

 pan quince. Ehodora Cana- 

 densis, the choicest of these, 

 is little known except to 

 botanists and true plant lov- 

 ers, not certainly because 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD. 



(CORNU8 FLORIDA.) 



it is rare, for 



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of 



England in considerable quantities, and could be trans- 

 planted while young with little difficulty. Indeed, I cannot 

 account satisfactorily for the neglect of such a beautiful and 

 abundant native flower. Perhaps like a good many other 



