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(coral berry) is a humble little shrub, but it is useful 







with its red and yellow berries all summer in connexion 

 with larger shrubs. 



Stuartia pentagynia is a lovely shrub that is little 

 known and not quite hardy in the Middle States. The 

 flowers are strikingly large, of pearly whiteness, with 

 orange-coloured anthers. The leaves are a bright rich 

 green, reddish beneath. The whole shrub looks not 

 unlike a camelia. Styrax japonica has a little the 

 appearance of the dogwood, only its habit is not as 

 good; it is, however, hardy, the flowers are pure white, 

 bell-shaped, and arranged in pendulous groups, and 

 bloom in May and early June. 



The lilacs are the glory of spring. Few flowers are 

 so popular both for odour and colour, and the foliage is 

 massive and green throughout the summer and is 

 specially suited to the garden. There are a number of 

 tamarisks^ both erect and spreading; some of them 

 are naturally hardier than others. They all belong 

 in exposed places near the shore or the brink of some 

 feature of water, or in the seams of or near by rocks. 

 They are wild looking and odd and graceful and bear 

 bright red flowers in summer mingled with light 

 feathery foliage. The tamarisk does not group well 

 with other shrubs and should, therefore, be kept some- 

 what by itself. The best kinds are Tamarisk africana, 

 Tamarisk gallica, Tamarisk germanica, and Tamarisk 

 indica, and, perhaps, the hardiest and most generally 

 useful is Tamarisk africana. 



The snowballs (viburnums) are an important family 



