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the Lilac. It is exceedingly hardy and the flower is always a favorite. 

 If the good varieties of Lilacs are used, the individual blooms will be 

 important. The only way to grow good, large blooms is to keep all the 

 suckers from the base of the plant removed; plants so treated will 

 resemble trees. 



Here is a selection of good varieties of Syringa vulgaris, the garden 

 Lilac, flowering in late May: Single — Marie Le Graye, white; Charles 

 X, rosy lilac; Frau Bertha Dammann, white; Ludwig Spaeth, deep 

 purple-red; Gloire des Moulins, rosy hlac; Alba grandiflora, white. 

 Double — Mme. Lemoine, white; Miss Ellen Willmot, white; La Tour 

 d'Auvergne, violet-purple; Mme. Casimir-Perier, creamy white; Presi- 

 dent Grevy (semi-double), bluish lavender ;Antoine Buchner, light pink. 

 Van Houttei's Spiraea, also known as Bridal Wreath, is unrivaled 

 for prolificacy and grace of bloom. 

 While the long sprays of white blossoms 

 are soon shattered by the rains and the 

 plant does not give a very permanent 

 flower effect, yet, with its beautiful 

 green fohage and bushy growth, when 

 properly pruned, it remains a most 

 satisfactory shrub. 



For the early Spring display there 

 is nothing so cheery as the bright yellow 

 flowers of the Golden Bell (Forsythia), 

 of which there are several forms; the 

 one known as suspensa is most efl'ective 

 when planted at the top of a wall or rock 



A planting diagram of the National Rose Society. 



The whitened parts of the stem indicate the depth to which a standard and a 

 dwarf Hose should be planted; that is, the same depth as they were when in the 



nursery 



