Flower's of May. 



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SpircEa alpina. — A graceful little shrub, not among the most conspicuous 

 of its race : its best quality is its earliness. 



May 3. — Epimedium macranthiim. — This is a very curious hardy peren- 

 nial, with clusters of whitish flowers of a singular shape and considerable 

 beauty. 



May 10. — Spircza primifolia. — Few shrubs are finer than this, or so fine, 

 when it is in its perfection. Its long, slender shoots are thickly set with 

 innumerable white flowers, like miniature roses. It rarely suffers from the 

 winter : and its foliage in the autumn is scarcely less beautiful than its 

 flowers in the spring ; for its small shining leaves are painted throughout 



