HABDT FLOWERING SHRUBS. 279' 



pRUFUS Triloba. — "We esteem this a great acquisition to our 

 list of hardy shrubs, and well worthy of a place in the most 

 select collection. It has not yet been planted sufficiently long, 

 nor in places sufficiently various, to enable us to say that it will 

 endure the winter in our colder sections ; but we beHeve that in 

 those places, at least, where it is covered aU winter with snow, 

 it will thrive perfectly. The flowers are nearly double, of a 

 clear pink color, large size, and borne in great profusion. It is 

 cultivated by budding on the plum stock. 



Purple Fringe. — Rhus cotintis. — Known under different 

 names, as Venetian Sumach, Smoke Tree, Love-in-a-mist, this 

 shrub has found its way into most collections. In the neighbor- 

 hood of our great lakes it endures the winters perfectly, but at 

 Halifax, and in similar localities, it requires a somewhat sheltered 

 position. The shrub has a very irregular habit of growth, 

 and any attempt to prune it into regularity only seems to increase 

 the deformity or render it conspicuous. Left to itself, branching 

 to the groimd, its irregular growth is concealed by the foliage, 

 and when covered with its peculiar feathery fringe, it is most 

 interesting and omamentaL When these floral panicles first 

 appear they are of a light green, which at length changes to a 

 reddish brown, that, after a time, deepens into a purplish shade.. 

 At this time it often looks like a cloud of smoke issuing from the 

 ground, or early in the morning, when covered with dew, like a 

 rising mist. These floral panicles contLaue a long time, and 

 make the shrub well worthy of the general esteem in which it is 

 held. 



Rose- Acacia. — Robinia hispida. — Also sometimes caUed 

 the Moss Locust, is an exceedingly handsome shrub. Its habit 

 of growth is spreading and irregular, and the branches are covered 

 thickly with stiff hairs, hence the name of Moss Locust ; but the 

 flowers are produced in great profusion, hanging in dense racemes,, 

 and are of a most beautiful rose color. It begins to flower when 

 not more than eighteen inches high, and grows slowly to a height 

 of from three to five feet, in very fiivorable localities attaining to 



