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Comte Horace de Choiseul. — Double, deep reddish purple. 

 Chinensis alba. — A dwarf form, with pure white starry flowers 

 with distinct lilac eye. 



Trainoniana. — Rich blue; very prolific. 

 Louis Spaeth. — Deepest reddish purple. 



Sjrlraea arguta. — A new Japanese species, among the earliest 

 and best of new Spiraeas. 



Daphne Genkwa. — A deciduous species from Japan, with dense 

 clusters of small intensely fragrant, lilac flowers. It can be highly 

 recommended. 



Berheris ilicifulia, the Holly-leaved Barberry is a stronger 

 grower than the Mahouia ; not quite so evergreen but with a rich 

 purple shading of foliage in the younger growth and a deep clear 

 green with age. Seemingly quite hardy, this gives great promise. 



Colutea purpurea is a notable improvement in flower over the 

 old form of the Bladder Senna ; more prolific and richly colored. 



Viburnum tomentosum cannot be too highly recommended as a 

 large growing shrub. Its great profusion of showy flat cymes of 

 pure white flowers are well set off by its rich foliage. 



Among the newer variegated foliaged shrubs, Cornus alba var. 

 /Spaeth, with rich shading of green and gold ; the Golden Hop 

 Tree ( Ptelea trifoUata var. aurea); the Variegated Syringa or 

 Mock Orange, with handsome marbling of silver and green ; and 

 the Variegated Hypericum Moserianum, with shades of green, 

 gold, and flesh color, are all notably good additions. 



In trees the most remarkable good new things that we have 

 tested are the Van Houtte's Golden Elm, with beautiful golden 

 foliage having a charming metallic luster in the full sun, and Dam- 

 pier's Golden Elm, nearly if not quite as good, — both varieties of 

 the English Elm ; the Weeping Purple Beech, a grand thing with 

 good weeping tendencies and a particularly rich purple coloring 

 of foliage ; the Tricolor Beech, having the foliage handsomely 

 variegated with shades of purple and red ; Teas's Weeping Mul- 

 berry, and Bunge's Catalpa ; this last forming a dense globe of 

 large and showy foliage, and on specimens grafted on a good 

 standard stem forming a particularly desirable tree for lawn use. 



Our collection of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials, of which we 

 feel that we have a very fair one, embracing as it does something 

 over two thousand varieties at the present time, with a discardure 

 after careful testing during the last ten years of perhaps one-half 



