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plenty of foliage of the richest description 

 and quite a wealth of showy flowers. It 

 grows freely in ordinary soil. It may be 

 trimmed in at pleasure and withstands frost 

 perfectly. It is a shrub which town residents 

 should plant freely if they have a bit of 

 ground that they want to look pretty. 



THE WAYFARING TREE (Viburnum Lan- 

 tand). This valuable shrub does not receive 

 that amount of attention to which its merits 

 entitle it. It succeeds well in some of the 

 most filthy and smoky districts of our largest 

 cities. It blooms with great freedom, and 

 the flowers are succeeded by the brightest 

 and showiest of berries. The Wayfaring 

 Tree is readily propagated, and few soils come 

 amiss to it. 



LEYCESTERIA FORMOSA is a beautiful 

 hardy shrub, with hollow stems, large ovate 

 leaves, and white or purplish flowers in pen- 

 dulous racemes. More conspicuous than the 

 flowers are the deep purple foliaceous bracts, 

 which impart to the shrub a distinct and very 

 ornamental appearance. It is a capital town 



