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flore pleno} is one of our handsomest flower- 

 ing shrubs, and is of value for planting 

 in town gardens and squares. For clothing 

 warm and dry banks, where few other plants 

 would succeed, Furze does remarkably well, 

 the foliage being thick and healthy, while the 

 flowers are abundantly produced. It is of 

 neat habit, and by judicious pruning may be 

 kept to any desirable size. 



KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA is a very 



handsome shrub or small-growing tree, par- 

 ticularly when in flower, and it is one of the 

 best of town plants. In many of our most 

 smoke-infested towns Warrington and the 

 outskirt districts of Liverpool and Man- 

 chester it grows with great freedom and 

 produces in abundance, during June and 

 July, its panicles of showy yellow flowers. 

 Although the Koelreuteria hails from China, 

 it may be relied upon as perfectly hardy in 

 perhaps every part of the British Isles. 



THE SPURGE LAUREL (Daphne Laureola) 

 grows freely in many a town garden ; indeed, 

 it is no uncommon thing to see large and well- 



