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LAWN AND SHADE TKEES. 



The plant should be clipped back occasionally, otherwise it is 

 liable to grow too rambling, irregular, and tall, and its beauty 

 and quantity of bloom become reduced. Any good loamy 

 soil suits it. 



The WEIGELA. Among all the plants introduced during the 

 past thirty years, we do not think any one more truly beautiful 



FIG. 64. WHITE FRINGE TREE. 



than the Weigela rosea when in flower. It is a shrub of the easiest 

 cultivation, growing freely in almost any soil, forming a round 

 regular bush ; and when loaded with its large clusters of rose- 

 colored flowers, borne upon the side branches and at the 

 extremities of the shoots, it has a slightly drooping and 

 graceful form, extremely beautiful. Since its introduction 

 varieties have been produced, all very beautiful, but none 

 surpassing the rosea. The amabilis has a somewhat larger foliage, 

 and a habit of sometimes blooming in autumn, which makes it 

 quite desirable. Alba has flowers almost white or of a delicate 



