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very handsome. Its pure white flowers are borne in racemes freely, and 

 it grows about eight feet high. The variety punctata is very showy, 

 has variegated foliage ; and the double-flowered form, named fl&re pleno, 

 is heavily shaded with reddish-purple. Pride of Rochester is another 

 excellent variety with double flowers, but in this case they are pure 

 white. 



Diervillas, better known in gardens as Weigelas, or Bush Honey- 

 suckles, form a delightful group of free-growing shrubs with bell-shaped 

 blossoms of varied colour. They are quite hardy and succeed well in 

 sandy soil ; but the greatest display is obtained when planted in fibrous 

 loam with which has been incorporated a good quantity of leaf-soil. 

 Bush Honeysuckles love a sunny position. The stock can be readily 

 increased by cuttings taken off in August and planted in sandy soil and 

 placed in gentle heat. Beyond the removal of worn-out growths and 

 the sappy shoots little or no pruning is required. D. grandiflora 

 flowers early and remains attractive for several weeks. It has rose-pink 

 flowers in abundance. Rosea bears rose-coloured flowers in April and 

 May. Eortensis nivea has pure white blossom, and is very free and 

 lasting. Looymansi aurea is conspicuous, as it has golden-coloured foliage, 

 which fortunately does not burn in the sun. In spring the leaves are 

 bright yellow and in autumn heavily stained with brown. Abel Car- 

 riere is a beautiful variety with large reddish-carmine flowers, pro- 

 duced abundantly. Eva Kathke is decidedly the best of the later 

 flowering kinds, and should be in all gardens where attractive deciduous 

 shrubs are admired. It is of bushy growth, free-blooming, and its 

 medium-sized flowers, of a deep purplish-crimson hue, are borne from 

 midsummer until late autumn. 



Elseagnuses. These are valuable, and include deciduous and ever- 

 green kinds. They are of the simplest culture and thoroughly hardy. 

 For planting on dry banks the variegated evergreen Oleasters are a suc- 

 cess, and if the position is a sunny one the leaf colouration is particu- 

 larly bright during winter. They are also excellent for planting as 

 single specimens on the fringe of the lawn, and few shrubs are better 

 adapted than the evergreen Oleasters for clothing ugly walls. E. augus- 

 tifolia, from Southern Europe, forms quite a tree, and needs plenty of 

 head room to display its true beauty. It has narrow leaves, light green 

 with a white reverse, and its clusters of delightfully fragrant full yellow 

 flowers borne in the leaf axils are succeeded by showy fruits. E. longipes 

 grows about eight feet high and as much or more through, and flourishes 

 in hungry soils. It is a very handsome shrub when in fruit, and is 

 worth planting largely for this reason. The North American Silver 

 Berry (E. argentea) is another beautiful deciduous species, with sweet- 

 scented flowers. It has silvered leaves, and the clusters of yellowish 

 flowers are followed by roundish berries. E. umbellata is an ornamental 

 Japanese species. It is of good growth, and during summer bears cream- 

 coloured flowers. E. macrophylla, a Japanese species of robust growth, 

 has a lavish display in winter of greenish-yellow flowers. Its bright green 

 leaves are powdered on the under sides with white, and when ruined 

 by the wind a pleasing effect is created. E. pungens is a bold green- 



