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selection of species, we subjoin the accompanying list of 

 hardy and showy shrubs, which are at the same time easily 

 procured in the United States. A great number of addi- 

 tional species and varieties, and many more rare, might be 

 enumerated, but such will be sufficiently familiar to the 

 connoisseur already ; and what we have said respecting 

 botanical rarities in flowering plants may be applied with 

 equal force to shrubs, viz. that in order to produce a bril- 

 liant effect, a few well chosen species, often repeated, are 

 more effective than a great and ill-assorted melange. 



In the following list, the shrubs are divided into two 

 classes No. 1 designating those of medium size, or low 

 growth, and No. 2, those which are of the largest size. 



FLOWERING IN APRIL. 



1. Daphne mezereum, the Pink Mezereum, D. M. album, the white 



Mezereum. 



2. Shepherdia argentea, the Buffalo berry ; yellow. 



1. Xanthorhiza apiifolia, the parsley-leaved Yellow-root ; brown. 



1. Cydonia japonica, the Japan Quince ; scarlet. 



1. Cydonia japonica alba, the Japan Quince ; white. 



2. Amelanchier Botryapium, the snowy Medlar. 

 \. Ribes aureum, the Missouri Currant ; yellow. 



1. Coronilla Enter us, the Scorpion Senna ; yellow. 



2. Magnolia conspicua, the Chinese chandelier Magnolia ; white. 



MAY. 



2. Crategus oxycantha, the scarlet Hawthorn. 



2. Crategus oxycantha, fl. plena, the double white Hawthorn. 



2. Chionanthus virginica, the white Fringe tree. 



1. Chionanthus latifolius, the broad-leaved Fringe tree ; white. 



.1. Azalea, rrany fine varieties ; red, white, and yellow. 



1. Calycanthus florida, the Sweet-scented-shrub ; brown. 



1. Magnolia purpurea, the Chinese purple Magnolia. 

 SJ. Halesia tetraptera, the silver Bell tree ; white. 



2. Syringa vulgaris, the common white and red Lilacs. 

 1. Syring t persica, the Persian Lilac : white and purple. 



