FOR LAWN AND HOME PLANTING 



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Sorbaria sorbi/oh'a generally known as the Ash-leaved Spirea, is desirable 

 for planting steep banks. 



The most common and still most indispensable of the shrubs 

 is the lilac. There are so many desirable improved varieties of this old 

 time flower that even if one were given a few bushes of the old-fashioned 

 type by some kind meaning neighbor, one could not afford to plant them, 

 the new improved ones are so much superior. They produce larger and 

 better flowers over a longer season. Therefore, go to a nurseryman and 

 get something that will be different and better than this old-fashioned 

 type. There become acquainted with Marie Legraye, a beautiful white; 

 Mad. Lemoine, the best double white; Dr. Regel, a handsome rosy pink; 

 Chas. X, an attractive rosy purple; Toussant L'Ouverture, a very dark 

 carmine colored in bud, turning to a violet-red when in full bloom and an 

 endless list of other improved sorts of the old fashioned lilac, 2/rm0a 

 vulgar is. Then, there are other species of lilacs that include at least one 

 other type that should be used. For landscape effects it is to be pre- 

 ferred to any of the former group because it seems to be more graceful 

 in its growth with smaller leaves and large, open, gracefully drooping 

 panicles of reddish purple flowers. This is the Rouen Lilac listed in the 

 catalogues as Seringa rothomagensis- The purple Persian lilac is very 

 similar to it but more dwarf in its growth. For screens and backgrounds of 

 shrubbery masses, used in separate colors rather than mixed, lilacs produce 

 a most attractive effect in late spring. 



