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are pure white. The foliage is fine and fern-like, and changes 

 to a beautiful golden-orange color late in the autumn. It 

 attains a height of 5 feet, but needs cutting back severely 

 to cause the lower branches to grow with vigor. Taking 

 out here and there a large branch down to the ground will 

 strengthen those remaining and make the shrubs more bushy 

 and compact. 



Van Houtte's Spiraea (S. Van Houttei), Fig. 133. The 

 finest of all the spiraas and quite hardy. It is dwarf in habit, 

 5-7 feet high, with graceful pendulous branches that, when 

 in bloom, are weighted down with pure white blossoms. 

 The flowers are of very short duration, but the foliage is 

 good. 



Waterer's Spiraea (S. Bumalda, var. Anthony Water er). 

 Resembling the Bumalda, but with the most beautiful 

 large clusters of pink flowers, and continues to bloom through- 

 out the summer more or less if the clusters are cut off before 

 the seed-vessels mature. 



Snowberry (Symphoricarpus racemosus). A very pretty 

 ^Id-fashioned shrub, the white berries of which are orna- 

 mental until early winter, and especially in contrast with 

 the fruit of the closely allied species S. vulgaris, the 

 Indian currant, and that of the barberry. 



Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), Fig. 134. This is a 

 very desirable shrub because of its hardiness and the many 

 associations connected with the old homesteads of the 

 earlier settlers of the country. Many of the improved 

 varieties possess more beauty than the original types and 

 are equally hardy. Amlng the best are Beranger, Ccerulea 

 superba and nana, Prof. Sargent, Pres. Grevy, etc. 



Persian Lilac (S. persica). This lilac is of medium 

 size, with small, bright-green leaves and large compound 

 panicles of rather brighter flowers than the common species. 

 It is also rather more graceful in outline than the latter 



