110 TOWN PLANTING 



For beauty of flowers it is not remarkable, but 

 as a handsome berry-bearing shrub it can well 

 hold its own with any other. A north aspect 

 and half -peaty soil would seem to suit it. 



THE SNOWY MESPILUS (Amelanchier Bo- 

 tryapium), with its racemes of white flowers 

 and desirable outline, is a valuable shrub for 

 planting in towns. The flowers are produced 

 in early spring, when lawns and gardens look 

 dull and cheerless. Of free growth, it suc- 

 ceeds in any fairly good soil and soon forms 

 a handsome specimen. 



THE MOCK ORANGE OR SYRINGA (Phila- 

 delphus coronarius) can ill be spared from 

 any collection of town shrubs, it being one of 

 the best for withstanding prolonged heat and 

 smoke. It is wonderfully recuperative, and 

 even when planted where smoke and other 

 impurities of the air are acknowledged to be 

 particularly abundant, the Mock Orange 

 comes through the ordeal in a truly surprising 

 manner. It grows about 8 ft. high, with 

 ovate and serrulated leaves and pretty 

 racemes of yellowish- white flowers in May. 



