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Syringa vulgaris, or common Lilac, blossoming in May, is 

 well known to all, and needs no comment. The white 

 variety is not quite so common. They are only used for 

 outside plantings, as they sucker very freely, and soon make 

 themselves common. 



Syringa Persica, or Persian Lilac, is a delicate low shrub, 

 the flowers very abundant, and the leaves small and delicate. 

 There are two varieties of the Persian Lilac ; the white 

 flowering, and the blue or purple flowering. 



The Chinese cut-lqaved Lilac is very curious ; the leaves 

 are cut like Parsley, the flowers growing in longer racemes 

 than the former. 



Siberian, or large Persian Lilac. The bunches of flowers 

 are very large, and continue in bloom a long time after the 

 common Lilac. 



Tamarix Gallica, or French Tamarix, and the Tamarix 

 Germanica, German Tamarix, are two pretty shrubs ; the 

 leaves and branches are small and slender, producing quan- 

 tities of beautiful flowers, which form a very striking contrast 

 to the other parts of the shrubbery. 



Viburnum opuhis, or Guelder Rose, otherwise called Snow- 

 ball, is a very showy shrub, producing large balls of snow- 

 white flowers in May, and is indispensably necessary to every 

 shrubbery. 



Vitex agnus caslus, or Chaste Tree, a pretty and singular 

 shrub, flowering the most part of the summer. 



CLIMBING PLANTS. 



Ampelopsis hederacea. This plant, on account of the 

 largeness of its leaves and rapidity of its growth, is well 

 adapted for covering walls. There are several species, all 

 resembling the vine in habit and flower. 



Aristolochia sipho, Birthwort, or Dutchman's Pipe. A 

 "very curious blooming plant, with extraordinarily large foli 



