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Plicatum. *I was in Boston when a bunch of these 

 was brought into Horticultural Hall. It created quite 

 a furor. The branch w^as one mass of bloom of pure 

 delicate white. '^What is it?" "What can it be?" 

 were the queries which surrounded it. N^o one knew. 

 Just then Jackson Dawson, superintendent of Arnold 

 Arboretum, came in. He knows everything. Few 

 plants of the temperate zone ever escape him. He told 

 them what it was. T. C. Thurlow is a prominent florist 

 and keen as a briar. He went home and examined 

 his foreig-n catalogues and found a lot listed over in 

 France. He sent and bought the whole lot. He sold 

 quite a quantity to some florists who cut a large amount 

 of them green to propagate in a gTeen house. I remem- 

 ber I was there and helped cut great basket loads for 

 the purpose of propagation. This was some years ago. 

 They are now very well distributed. 



I have not yet tested them, but will try to do so. 

 I am sure, however, that like the Plicatum, they will 

 need some shelter from the sun. 



Both these last, like the Sterilis, are produced by 

 layering. 



OTHER SHRUBS OF VALUE. 



The Eiionymus. This is also called burning bush 

 and spindle tree. The American species is the Wahoo. 

 There is a town of this name in ISTebraska, so called, I 

 believe, on account of the fine clumps of burning 

 bush near it. In the eastern part of Nebraska you 

 often see them gi'owing wild along the streams. There 



