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flowers. Bright bark and fresh young budding foliage add 

 to the beauty of the flowers, but the flowers are quite suffi- 

 cient of themselves to justify the renown for beauty belong- 

 ing of old to the hawthorn of England. 



This hawthorn has been improved and improved until 

 there are double white varieties, double pink, double scarlet, 



double crimson, or 

 single flowering scar- 

 let, pink, etc., of less 

 striking color and 

 form. Paul's double 

 red stands very high among red haw- 

 thorns, and some of the white flower- 

 ing varieties are equally excellent. 

 Hawthorns should be planted either 

 singly or in groups by themselves. 

 Their peculiar habit does not allow 

 them to form entirely harmonious re- 

 lations with other shrubs in the same 

 group. 



I must not forget to mention among 

 eai-lv-bloouiino- plants the low-ffrowine: 



ENGLISH HAWTHORN. 



(CRATES OXYACANTHA.) f orm o f J) eu tzia <? ra<citis, piled in May 

 with masses of the most lovely small white flowers. 

 Florists prize the flowers of the Deuteia gracilis highly for 

 forcing, and no more attractive snow-white dainty clusters 

 can be found on any of the hardy plants of the lawn. 



Nor must I neglect the rich purple crimson and bronze- 

 green foliage of Azalea amcena, most showy of very dwarf 

 shrubs. 



