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more erect and vigorous, with large scentless 

 flowers, useful for cutting where the odour 

 of other kinds is an objection. It is a plant 

 that forces well, but, coming from the southern 

 States, it is a little tender in cold districts. 



P. Lemoinei. A hybrid from niicrophylhts 

 crossed with coronarius a beautiful shrub, 

 flowering in the latter half of June, its abundant 



of 



Philadelphia microphyllus. 



pure white flowers about ij in. across, and 

 with a pleasant fruity fragrance. .Of neatly 

 compact habit, it reaches a considerable size 

 at maturity. Its form crectus differs only 

 in its more rigidly erect habit. From this 

 first cross has sprung a race of shrubs of fine 

 habit, refined fragrance, and much freedom 

 of flower, the value of which is as yet hardly 

 shown in our gardens. One of the newest and 

 best is P. piirpureo-maculatiisop&z, a distinct 

 break in colour. 



P. Lewisii, a neat shrub from the Pacific 

 coast of North America, and nearest htrsutus 

 in its hair-fringed leaves. The flowers are a 

 little smaller, scentless, opening at the end 



of June and early in July. P. calif ornicus is a 

 pretty but rather tender form of this plant. 



P. mexicanus, a chastely beautiful plant 

 and nearly evergreen, but tender save in the 

 warmest parts of the south-west of England 

 and Ireland, where it occasionally covers 

 warm walls near the sea to a height of 15 feet. 

 The flowers are large and deeply cupped, 

 waxy texture, and either creamy-white 

 or faintly flushed with rose. Their 

 strong spicy perfume is agree- 

 able, and unlike that of any other 

 kind. 



P. microphyllus, a pretty little 

 plant from Colorado, California, and 

 North Mexico ; hardy with us and 

 richly beautiful in warm soil and 

 a place where its wood is well 

 ripened. The flowers are small and 

 solitary, but freely produced towards 

 the end of June, milk-white, and 

 with a fruity fragrance. It is the 

 tiniest of the genus, rarely reaching 

 3 feet in height, with slender stems 

 and small glossy green leaves the 

 size of Box, and greyish, with hair 

 on the underside. 



P. Satsumi, a good shrub from 

 Japan, with freely-branched slender 

 stems of 4 to 6 feet, long narrow 

 leaves, and rather small pure-white 

 flowers, in pairs or loosely clustered. 



HYBRID KINDS. 



P. AVALANCHE. Flowers large 

 with a pleasing odour, and so 

 numerous that the branches are 

 weighed down with them. 



P. BOUQUET BLANC. Pure 

 white double flowers borne in pro- 

 fusion. 



P. BOULE D'ARGENT. A dwarf 

 spreading plant with double flowers 

 and very fragrant. 



P. CANDELABRE. A dwarf- 

 growing form, with flowers larger 

 than those of P. Lemoinei, and with 

 undulated petals. Very pretty in 

 the rock-garden, 



P. CONQUETE. A free-flowering 

 form, whose branches arch over with 

 the weight of blossoms. These, 

 which are large and double, have 

 almost a tulip shape, and are fragrant. 



P. FANTAISIE. From the seed-bearing 

 parent this inherited a slight pink tinge to- 

 wards the centre of the flower, and for hy- 

 bridising it has proved to be valuable. 



P. FIMBRIATUS. A slender form, with 

 curiously-toothed blossoms. 



P. GERBE DE NEIGE. Pure white single 

 flowers nearly a couple of inches in diameter 

 and prettily cup-shaped. 



P. MANTEAU D'HERMINE. A general 

 favourite, which forms a compact specimen, 

 thickly clothed, when at its best, with double 

 creamy-white blossoms. 



P. MONT BLANC. This, which reaches a 



