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different colored flowering sorts. The rubra, alia, and puhe- 

 rulenta are among, if not the best. 



The Hippophae. This is a low-growing shrub with narrow 

 leaves, downy whitish underneath, of no great beauty, but 

 pleasing and desirable as a foreground plant in forming laro-e 

 masses. Some of the varieties have been described as growing 

 to a height of fifteen or more feet ; but we have never seen 

 any above six feet, and oftener as low bushes of two or three 

 feet. Its flowers are of a bright yellow, and its blooms in May 

 are followed with orange-colored fruit that often hangs on all 

 winter, rendering the effect when massed with evergreens very 

 good. 



The Japan Globe Flower. The Japan globe flower 

 Kerria Japonica but a few years since was universally planted. 

 Of late its use has become quite rare, and many new places 

 with all the varieties have not a plant of this old favorite. Its 

 habit of sucking is against it ; but mingled with low-growing 

 evergreens, its smooth greenish wood, twig-like branches, and 

 lanceolate serrated leaves, in connection with the profusion 

 of rose-shaped yellow flowers that it bears from March to July, 

 make it very attractive and desirable. There is a small growing, 

 variegated-leaved sort that suits well the foreground of a mass 

 or group. 



The Koelreuteria. For the foreground of groups in which 

 the Austrian or Scotch pines are prominent, the Koelreuteria 

 paniculata, although only occasionally used, is really a very 

 desirable plant. It is also well suited to a place in small 

 gardens or lawns, and particularly where an erect, small, upright 

 tree is wanted. Its stems are rather stiff than graceful, its 

 leaves coarsely toothed and prominent ; but its flowers borne at 

 the ends of the shoots in long racemose spikes or panicles of a 

 bright yellow color, give to the plant or tree a very fine 

 appearance. The flowers are followed by large bladdery 



