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seed, thereby concentrating the energies of the plant in the new growth and 

 the succeeding crop of blossom. They need no systematic pruning, but in 

 order to obtain fine trusses the weaker and superfluous shoots may be cut 

 out at the same time as the old inflorescences are removed. Named lilacs 

 should always be obtained on their own roots. The practice of grafting 

 them on either privet or common lilac should never be encouraged; with 

 the former as a stock they do not live so long or grow so well, and with the 

 latter, unless a watch is maintained, the variety in time becomes over- 

 whelmed by suckers. They are best propagated by layers, but cuttings also 

 may be used. Isolated bushes and a fine shapely lilac is an admirable 

 ornament for a lawn should be trained to a single stem by removing all the 

 lower buds and subsequently the lower branches. As the lilac does not 

 form a terminal bud, and naturally forks its branches every year, some 

 training and pruning is at first needed to get a tree-like example. A 

 selection of garden varieties of lilac planted in a broad mass, with the 

 dwarfer Persian and Rouen lilacs on the margins, makes a splendid feature 

 in May. 



So many varieties are being raised, chiefly in France, that only a selection 

 can be given here; many of them indeed are scarcely to be distinguished from 

 each other : 



i. SINGLE-FLOWERED. 

 A Iba grandiflora. White, large. 

 Dr Mirabel. Claret coloured ; trusses fine. 

 Jacques Callot. Reddish lilac. 



Madame Francisque Morel. Very large trusses rosy lilac. 

 Marie Legraye. White ; buds cream-coloured. 

 Negro. Deep blue-purple. 



Pasteur. Flowers large, claret- coloured, in fine trusses. 

 Philemon. Flower red, in broad trusses. 

 Princess Marie. Pale lilac. 

 Prof. Sargent. Bright rosy lilac. 



Souvenir de Louis Spath. Deep purple ; perhaps the finest of this shade. 

 Ville de Troyes. Reddish lilac. 



2. DOUBLE-FLOWERED. 

 A bet Carrier e. Blue-lilac. 

 Comtesse Horace de Choiseul. Greyish white. 

 Condorcet. Lilac-blue. 

 La Tour d 1 Auvergne. Purple-lilac. 

 Madame Casimir Pe'rier. Large, creamy white. 

 Madame de Miller. White. 

 Madame Lemoine. White. 



Marc Micheli. Pale lavender blue, white behind. 

 Michael Buchner. Pale rosy lilac. 



Miss Ellen Willmott. Snow-white, with fine trusses and flowers. 

 President Loubet. One of the darkest purple double- flowered kinds. 

 William Robinson. Violet-mauve. 



TAMARIX. TAMARISK. TAMARICACE^:. 



A group of shrubs or small trees, natives of the Old World, and often 

 inhabiting maritime situations or places where the soil is permeated with 

 saline substances. Some half a dozen species are grown in British gardens, 

 all distinguished by the feathery character of their branches, the minute 

 scale-like leaves resembling those of some junipers, and the small flowers 

 crowded on short racemes. There are few genera of shrubs whose 



