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claret: Blatteum, maculatum grandiflorum. Bluish 

 purple : Schiller. (See NOTE A., end of volume). 



Spartium junceum (the Spanish Broom). Height, 8 

 feet. One of the gayest of flowering evergreens ; flowers 

 yellow, thriving in common soil. 



Ulex europcea flore pleno (the double-flowered Furze). 

 Height, 5 feet. A compact evergreen, thriving in common 

 soil, the yellow flowers are produced so freely in spring 

 that it forms a complete golden bush. Very effective, but 

 apt to suffer from severe frosts. 



Viburnum Tinus (the Laurustinus). Height, 8 feet. 

 This is perhaps the most beautiful of winter-flowering 

 dwarf evergreens, thriving in common garden soil. It is 

 sometimes damaged in low damp situations if the winter 

 be severe, but is seldom killed. Viburnum lucidum (the 

 black Laurustinus) and V. suspensum are also valuable 

 and handsome evergreens. 



No. VI. 

 [From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? August yd 1867,^. 805.] 



FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS (DECIDUOUS). 



As in my last paper, which dealt with evergreen flowering 

 trees and shrubs, I shall here select and describe only a few 

 of the choicest of the deciduous kinds. 



sEsculus Hippocastanum (the Horse Chestnut). Height, 

 60 feet. One of the grandest of flowering trees, to which 

 the avenue in Bushy Park bears ample testimony. The 

 double-flowering kind (y. H. flore-pleno) is equally beauti- 

 ful, and more suitable for many purposes, growing slowly, 

 and seldom attaining to more than half the height of the 

 former. The Scarlet Horse Chestnut (JE. H. rubicunda) 

 is of still slower and smaller growth, rarely exceeding 20 

 or 25 feet in height, and from its symmetry and beauty 

 forms an admirable park tree. 



Amelanchier Botryapium (the Snowy Mespilus). Height, 



