Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



to fall x down the tube and settle on the stigma, thus 

 fertilising it. Both methods of fertilisation are effica- 

 cious in this plant. In fact, a flower necessarily ferti- 

 lises itself (if it has not already been fertilised through 

 insect agency) when it withers and the anthers contract 

 and discharge their pollen down the tube. 



The fruit is small, dry and brown, and contains a 

 seed in each of its two chambers. 



Recently there has been a great movement in the 

 cultivation of Lilacs, with a corresponding development 

 in the colour, number and size of their flower panicles. 

 Every gradation of hue, from the deepest purples and 

 rich crimsons to pure white, is now represented in 

 them, and one may have a beautiful bush carrying 

 perhaps three hundred magnificent clusters of flowers 

 all abloom together. These endless varieties are 

 products of the nurseryman's labour the industry is 

 specially great in France and Holland and their 

 names and relative merits can be found in catalogues 

 sent out from the nurseries. Often they are so closely 

 alike that it is almost impossible to distinguish 

 between them. One may perhaps mention Charles X, 

 with rich red-purple blossoms; Souvenir de Louis, 

 Spath, and Negro, with deep blue-purple single flowers; 

 Alba magna, with single white flowers; and Miss Ellen 

 Willmott, with glorious panicles of double white flowers, 



as among the best. 



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