Round the Year in the Garden 



Sulphurea, of pale yellow colouring. Of the doubles 

 the best are Marie Louise, Lady Hume Campbell, Comte 

 de Brazza, and Neapolitan. 



Flowering Shrubs of Spring. During the past ten 

 days the pageant of flowers has made great progress ; 

 trees, shrubs and alpines now combine to render the 

 well-stocked garden a place of untold delight. Happy is 

 the garden in which spring-flowering shrubs are well 

 represented. The graceful shoots of Berberis stenophylla 

 are wreathed in golden blossom, and the sturdier stems 

 of Berberis Darwini are not less freely covered with 

 their orange- coloured blooms, while the old Mahonia, too, 

 is quite gay with its bunches of pale yellow flowers. The 

 deciduous Magnolias (conspicua, soulangeana, and obo- 

 vata) are giant bushes laden with wonderful flower cups, 

 white or stained with rose red. The Tree Heaths, Erica 

 Veitchii and arborea, where thickly planted, form a 

 miniature forest of dainty leaf and abundant white 

 blossom, and groups of the red Mediterranean Heath 

 show finely when massed near by. The ornamental 

 Cherries, the Crabs, the Plums and Peaches all are 

 smothered in blossom, and as seen at the height of their 

 exquisite display, it seems as though one could not plant 

 them too freely. 



Most alluring of all garden trees is, I think, the 

 double-flowered Peach ; its blossoms are a most fascinat- 

 ing shade of deep rose, and their glowing colour among 

 the greens of other trees attracts attention from afar. 

 The Siberian Crab (Pyrus baccata) is as lavish as any 

 in its display of bloom, and a grown tree is a most 

 attractive sight. The Japanese Cherry (Primus pseudo- 

 cerasus) and its variety J. H. Veitch are two splendid 

 small trees, now laden with bunches of big pink bloom. 

 Pyrus floribunda blossoms with remarkable freedom ; the 

 rounded trees are laden with their dainty pink flowers. 



Those gardens in which spring-flowering trees and 

 shrubs are not freely grouped miss some of the most 



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