five] lawns and shrubberies 



Grevy, a beautiful blue, with very large and very 

 double individual flowers, measuring three-quar- 

 ters of an inch in diameter. This is one of the 

 finest of all the lilacs. Michael Buchner is a dwarf, 

 bushy variety, with very double pale flowers of a 

 delicate lilac hue. This list does not include one- 

 half of the really choice new lilacs. 



Another of the old-fashioned flowers is the sy- 

 ringa or mock orange. The newer varieties num- 

 ber at least twenty-five, and are all the way from 

 bushes of two feet to twelve feet in height. A good 

 collection covers a long season, of not less than two 

 months. One of the dwarf varieties is double, and 

 the flowers are rosettes, equal to white roses — 

 but they are sparsely borne. Three or four of the 

 choicest are the grandiflorus, with very large flow- 

 ers; the nivalis, with cream-colored stamens; the 

 Gordon, which has very profuse flowers very late 

 in the season. The golden-leaved syringa is a 

 small growing bush, with golden yellow foliage; 

 and the willow-leaved has leaves curled at the 

 edges; while the downy-leaved has soft, satin-like 

 leaves. 



The old-fashioned hydrangea, which our moth- 

 ers grew in tubs, has been supplemented by the 



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