A WOMAN^S HARDY GARDEN 



Altheas, or Rose of Sharon, — not by any 

 means the old purplish red variety, but the 

 beautiful new double white and double pale 

 pink kinds, with blossoms coming in August 

 and reminding one of Camelhas, — are indis- 

 pensable. Do not fail to have Hydrangea 

 panicidata, with its great heads of white 

 bloom, slowly changing to dull pink, and 

 lasting quite six weeks. 



Japanese Barberry, a dwarf shrub, covered 

 in autumn with scarlet berries which remain 

 on the bush all winter, is very ornamental. 

 Many of us remember Cahjcanthus Jloiidus, or 

 the Sweet-scented Shrub of our young days, 

 when the children would tie two or three 

 of the queer brown blossoms in the corner 

 of a handkerchief to regale their less fortu- 

 nate companions with a sniff of the delicious 

 odor. Fo7\sythia and L,ahurnuin, or Golden 

 Chain, both have yellow blossoms. Others 

 are, Weigela Rosea, the well-known pink- 

 flowering shrub; Rhus Cotinus, or Purple 

 Fringe, and Cydonia Japonica, or Japanese 



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