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it again and again, and wisli it might thus remaia for ever. It 

 does not produce seed, but is propagated from green-wood 

 cuttings and layers. 



Lance-Leaved or Revesii. — Could we assure our readers that 

 this elegantly graceful shrub was as hardy as the Plum-leaved, 

 they would as surely plant it, for though diifering from it entirely 

 in habit of growth, form and color of foliage, it is in nothing 

 behind it, save hardihood, and in some respects is more attractive. 

 The Plum-leaved is quite erect in form, this most gracefully 

 pendulous; and the leaves are not oval, but narrow, pointed, 

 and deeply serrate, changing late in autumn to a purple hue, but 

 not as gaily painted. But there is a brilliancy in the snowy 

 whiteness of its flowers, and a charming grace in its lovely, airy 

 form, that is not to be surpassed. And though we have seen it 

 suffer in the open winters of these lake regions, doubtless, in the 

 regions of all winter snow it would be perfectly hardy. There 

 is a double-flowered variety of the Lance-leaved, differing in 

 nothing from this, save that the flowers are double. They are 

 not so tender that any need hesitate to give them a trial ; if in 

 the region of open winters with but little snow, give them the 

 shelter of some friendly evergreen that will stand between them 

 and the rough wintry wind that most commonly prevails, and it 

 will not be often that they will sufier. To decide which of these 

 two varieties of the Lance-leaved is the prettier, will be no easy 

 task ; many, perhaps most, will prefer the double ; but there is a 

 peculiar, charming brilliancy in the flowers of the single variety 

 that the double does not possess. They blossom a few days 

 earlier than the Plum-leaved, and Hke it, are usually propagated 

 by layering and from cuttings of unripe wood. 



Eximia. — ^This is a very fine variety, producing its flowers in 

 spikes. They are of a bright rose color, and appear in July. 



Billardi. — ^Another rose-colored variety, which keeps in bloom 

 throughout July and August. 



White Beam-Tree Leaved. — A very pretty white flowering 

 sort, introduced from the north-west. It has a very dense, bushy 



