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cellent cover, pheasants and birds generally feeding freely 

 on the berries. B. fascicularis hybrida is also a beautiful 

 kind of taller growth. 



Berberis Darwinii. Height, 5 feet. Perhaps the loveli- 

 est of this genus, thriving in common garden soil. The 

 flowers are rich deep orange, often so abundant as to com- 

 pletely cover the plant. 



Ceanothus pallidus. Height, 6 feet. A beautiful shrub, 

 producing spikes of sky-blue flowers, very hardy. Of 

 other species, azureus, dentatus, divaricatus, rigidus, and 

 papillosus are good, but not quite hardy ; they are how- 

 ever valuable and suitable as wall plants. 



Daphne pontica. Height, 4 feet. This is a valuable 

 hardy plant on account of the sweetness of its insignificant 

 greenish flowers, which perfume the garden and shrubbery 

 in the evening. D. Cneorum, and D. Cneorum fol. var. are 

 also charming plants of trailing habit, with pink sweet- 

 scented flowers. The latter are of less easy culture than 

 the former and require light loamy or peaty soil. D. Fioni- 

 ana is a pretty dwarf free-blooming kind with lilac flowers, 

 thriving like the D. pontica in any soil. 



Erica, in varieties (the Hardy Heath). The varieties 

 of hardy Heath are almost endless, if we include, as from 

 the mere decorative point of view we may well do, the 

 Gypsocallis (Moor Heath) and Calluna (Ling or Heather). 

 They range in height from I to 4 feet, are mostly very 

 hardy, and thrive best in peat. For a small collection take 

 the following C. vulgaris, 6 varieties; Erica, 10 varieties; 

 Gypsocallis, 4 varieties. The flowers are white or red. 



Garry a elliptica. Height, 8 feet. A fine evergreen, 

 with dark shining oblong leaves, producing in mid-winter 

 catkins resembling those of the Filbert. The plant is 

 sometimes damaged by frost in winter, but quickly 

 recovers. Thrives in any soil. 



Kalmia latifolia. Height, 6 feet. This is one of the 

 chastest of what are popularly called American plants ; the 

 leaves are of a beautiful dark green, the flowers white, 



