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church." Nothing more beautiful than this has been said by 

 way of suggestion, never has advice been more beautifully given. 

 Unless restraint in variety is practiced with such subjects, the 

 garden will become a hodgepodge, a fussy, spotty place, restless 

 and wretched. When shrubs are used as screens, groups are of 

 necessity large, but the main groups, composed probably of 

 three, five or seven shrubs, should be in each case of some one 

 variety. 



Turning now to the newer shrubs, perhaps the one that may 

 be singled out as most entirely suitable for the little garden is 

 Viburnum Carlesii, a native of Korea. What sympathy I feel 

 for all who do not know this yet! \Miat delight will be theirs 

 when first they see its white flowers and rosy buds in May, as 

 they catch that delicious fragrance — unlike the best rich scents, 

 those of gardenia and of lemon-blossom, yet like them; as they 

 see the color of this viburnum's leaves in late October, a very 

 dark and dusky crimson, almost a reddish bronze. All these 

 pleasures (and are there higher or more keen.'') await him who 

 invests two or three dollars in this hardy shrub. Viburnum 

 Carlesii's suitability for the small place lies in its dwarf habit. 

 It grows to be about three feet high, is rather spreading, and 

 makes a capital foreground-plant. 



Of Viburnum rhytidophyllum, another of the novelties from 

 the Orient, we have two young specimens. These have not yet 

 fruited, but as it was for their leaves and fruit that we bought 

 them, it is with no little interest that we await next year's 

 developments. I give here E. H. Wilson's description of this 

 plant: "A remarkable viburnum and totally unlike any other is 

 V. rhytidophyllum, with long deep-green, lance-shaped, strongly 

 wrinkled leaves, which on the under side are covered with a 

 dense white felt. It is a shrub from five to ten feet tall, compact 

 in habit, and has broad flat heads of dirty white, rather foetid 



