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only grows a foot or two high, and is of dense, compact, 

 free-blooming habit, so that it is a splendid shrub for 

 bedding. It has drooping reddish flowers, but there is a 

 white variety, which is if anything more beautiful than 

 the type, and also a dark, atropurpurea. These lovely 

 little Heaths are worthy of extended culture. 



The Daphnes are of that class of low, recumbent 

 shrub which rock-gardeners are beginning to utilize for 

 the foothills of their Alpine gardens. Blagayana is a 

 splendid little evergreen with creamy fragrant flowers in 

 dense terminal clusters. Cneorum, with rose-coloured 

 heads of perfumed bloom, is also evergreen ; the variety 

 major is finer than the type, as the flower-heads are 

 larger. Mezereum and its varieties alba and atrorubra 

 are deciduous ; their odour is delicious. 



Davidia involucrata is an interesting newish Chinese 

 shrub or tree with Lime-like leaves, with handsome 

 bracts of white inflorescence. It is deciduous. 



Desfontainia spinosa is an interesting though not new 

 evergreen which thrives best in peaty soil with partial 

 shade. The flowers are tubular and coral-coloured with 

 a yellow tip. Those who like thoroughly distinctive 

 plants which are at the same time really handsome might 

 make a note of it. 



The Deutzias are almost too well known to need 

 mention. The double variety of crenata, flore pleno, 

 is particularly popular; but extus purpurea, with 

 purple and white flowers, and punctata, with variegated 

 leaves both forms of crenata are not so well known. 

 Lemoinei is a fine hybrid Deutzia with white flowers in 

 upright panicles, borne very freely. Boule de Neige is a 

 splendid form of it. Discolor major is a fine Deutzia from 

 Western China, with long arching sprays of white flowers. 



The hybrid Diervillas (Weigelas) must have prominent 



