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to be in every garden. At present it is too much 

 confined to 'the gardens of the curious.' And from 

 Australia and New Zealand we have several of the 

 daisy bushes, one of which, Olearia Gunniana, is a most 

 desirable spring flowering shrub, the whole shrub being 

 covered with white, daisy-like flowers, and perfumed 

 with a fine aromatic scent. 



I must not go further, though I should have liked to 

 speak of the magnolias, spiraeas, the Pyrus Japonica, 

 the hardy orange {Citrus trifoUata, in flower at the 

 beginning of May), the Californian bramble {Ruhus 

 deliciosus), the Daphnes, the Forsythias, and many 

 others. Of roses, I could have picked specimens from 

 the monthly China, but as yet roses are few. They 

 \W11 soon come in multitudes, and will require and 

 deserve a chapter to themselves. What I have said 

 of these few shrubs may serve as a guide-post to many 

 others which I have not space to describe, and I wish 

 to add a few words on the general advantages of grow- 

 ing shrubs to a much larger extent than is now done. 



Shrubs, being perennial, make permanent masses on 

 lawns, and so can be used as lasting objects in land- 

 scape gardening, in a way that herbaceous plants, 

 however large, cannot. Being permanent, too, they 

 improve every year in size, and generally in vigour; 

 herbaceous plants reach the same height in each year 



