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best class. A bushy plant of half- woody character 

 that may well be classed among shrubs, and that was 

 beloved of our grandmothers, is Leycesteria formosa, a 

 delightful thing in the later autumn. The large- 

 fruited Euonymus (Spindle Tree) is another good 

 thing too little grown. 



For a peaty garden there are many delightful 

 plants in the neglected though easy-to-be-had list. 

 One of these is the beautiful and highly fragrant 

 Azalea occidentalis, all the better that the flowers and 

 leaves come together and that it is later than the 

 Ghent Azaleas. Then there are the two sweet- 

 scented North American Bog Myrtles, Myrica cerifera 

 and Comptonia asplenifolia, the charming little Leio- 

 phyllum buxifolium, of neatest bushy form, and the 

 Ledum palustre, whose bruised leaves are of delightful 

 aromatic fragrance ; Vacciniutn pennsylvanicum, pretty 

 in leaf and flower and blazing scarlet in autumn, and 

 Gaultheria Shallon, a most important sub-shrub, revel- 

 ling in moist peat or any cool sandy soil. 



These examples by no means exhaust the list of 

 desirable shrubs that may be found for the slightest 

 seeking. This brief recital of their names and 

 qualities is only meant as a reminder that all these 

 good things are close at hand, while many more are 

 only waiting to be asked for. 



