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tive leaves, and purple and yellow Flower de Luce. 

 A few old-fashioned shrubs always were seen. By 

 inflexible law there must be a Lilac, which might 

 be the aristocratic Persian Lilac. A Syringa, a flow- 

 ering Currant, or Strawberry bush made sweet the 

 front, yard in spring, and sent wafts of fragrance into 



Peter's Wreath. 



the house-windows. Spindling, rusty Snowberry 

 bushes were by the gate, and Snowballs also, or our 

 native Viburnums. Old as they seem, the Spiraeas 

 and Deutzias came to us in the nineteenth century 

 from Japan ; as did the flowering Quinces and 

 Cherries. The pink Flowering Almond dates back 

 to the oldest front yards (see page 39), and Peter's 

 Wreath certainly seems an old settler and is found 



