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must not overlook, so beautiful are they, and unique in 

 their own peculiar way. One is Stuartia pcntagynia and 

 the other Oxydendrum arboreum, or Andromeda arbor ea, 

 the sorrel-tree. The first, bearing throughout the season 

 foliage invariably bright and beautiful, is particularly at- 

 tractive at midsummer for creamy -white, orange-like clusters 

 of flowers. The Andromeda arbor ea, noticed in detail in 

 another place, has during the scarcity of flowers at midsum- 

 mer the supreme attraction of white, swaying tassels of 

 sweet-scented bloom. 



The little Hypericum, studded with quantities of bright 

 yellow flowers, is not to be despised at this season, and the 

 delicate, feathery foliage and beaded 

 pink flowers of the hardy Tamarisk 

 Indica are in full perfection at about 

 the same time. The rich, effective 

 hues of the A lihea flowers also pertain 

 properly to summer, although they 

 last into September. 



But the now celebrated Hydrangea 

 paniculata grandiflora, with its great 

 trusses of white and pink flowers, 

 hardly belongs to summer properly, 

 for its richest and most varied tints of 

 crimson only appear just before the 

 first approach of frost. 



Let us not forget either in assem- 

 bling our summer lawn beauties to 



DOUBLE FLOWERING ALTHEA. 



employ the old and neglected Lytium (HIBISCUS SYRIANS, FL.PU) 

 barbarum, or box thorn, with its curving masses of small, 

 half-climbing foliage, studded in August with little effec- 



