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whose knowledge is limited to this variety, and those 

 who have become tired of it, should try some of the 

 other kinds. 

 Hydrangea paniculata, var. grandiflora. The 



solid white flower clusters are sometimes nearly 

 a foot long. The largest flowers may be secured 

 by cutting down each winter to 6 inches, and 

 strong shoots 3 feet high will be formed. This 

 variety is often used in large beds on a lawn 

 where they can be planted about 4 feet apart, 



H. paniculata. This is the wild form from Japan, 

 making a sturdy shrub 10 feet high, with graceful, 

 open panicles of flowers. It is destined to become 

 more widely planted, especially by those who 

 already have the variety Grandiflora, and who 

 wish a plant less artificial and common in appear- 

 ance. There are two kinds of this wild form, 

 variety Praecox, or early-flowering Hydrangea, 

 blooming in July, and therefore much extending 

 the season, and variety Tardiva, blooming in 

 August. 



H. Hortensis, var. Otaksa. This is the kind most 

 commonly grown in tubs; usually such a puzzle 

 as to whether the flowers will be pink or blue. 

 This depends upon the soil, and there are some 

 regions of Long Island where most of the flowers 

 are pink, in others blue. In Newport they are 

 grown outside and the tops bent down or boxed 

 and covered with soil for the winter. Many peo- 



Hydrangea paniculata, not the variety Grandiflora. This 

 is more graceful and beautiful, though less showy than the 

 better known variety Grandiflora, which has solid heads of 

 white flowers. More attention should be given to the flow- 

 ering and berry-bearing shrubs that have decorative value 

 from midsummer through the autumn. 



Dwarf Horse-Cheslnut on the lawn of the late John D. 

 Hicks, Westbury, L. 1. This is the most magnificent flower- 

 ing shrub of its season in mid-July. It is rare in nurseries, 

 but we have succeeded in working up a stock of it. 



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pie ask us why their plants do not bloom. It is 

 because the upper buds of the previous year's 

 growth have been cut off or winter-killed. We 

 have a number of old plants that have been win- 

 tered for several years in the cellar and will give 

 showy effects from June till October. 



H. radiata. A conspicuous plant in the shrubbery 

 from the silvery white lining to the leaves, which 

 shows when stirred by the breeze. The flowers 

 are white, in flat-topped clusters. It grows about 

 4 feet high. 



Oak-leaved. //. quercifolia. One of the rarest and 

 most beautiful species, with graceful, open pani- 

 cles of white flowers. 



Hypericum 



Hypericum aureum. A low shrub about 3 feet 

 high, thickly studded with golden yellow flowers. 



H. densiflorum. A smaller shrub with smaller 

 and more numerous flowers. 



Indian Currant Coral Berry 



(Symphoricarpus vulgaris) 



A graceful shrub, about 2 or 3 feet high, with deep 

 red berries clustered and crowded along its arching 

 twigs. The branches take root where they touch the 

 ground and therefore are useful to hold steep banks 

 and edge groups of tall shrubs in the same manner 

 as Thunberg's Barberry. 



