<;o (ALKM)AR OF FLOWERING 



, and the varieties are best grafted or budded on 

 to the common sorts. They will grow to a height 

 of about 20 ft. 



Among the best varieties 



Lahiinniiu Water en has longer and brighter flower 

 spikes. 



Lahiirmun pendulum (Scotch Laburnum) has 

 graceful weeping branches, and its flowers appear later 

 and finer than those of the common sort. When 

 grown in connection with purple beeches or the Primus 

 Pixsardii. the effect made by the contrast of colour is 

 lovely. 



Ledum latifolium 



(U road-leaved Labrador Tea) only grows to a 

 height of about 3 ft., but it is a handsome little ever- 

 green. with white flowers in bloom upon it in April and 

 May. A well-drained mixture of peat, sand, and leaf 

 mould is what suits it best, and one should raise it from 

 layers in the Autumn, or by division in a similar soil. 



Leycestena formosa 



(Himalayan Honeysuckle) is a deciduous shrub 

 that should be grown against a wall in any fairly good 

 garden soil, but a sandy peat is the one it prefers, and 

 there it will reach a height of about <> ft., and from 



