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any soil. F, suspensa is also a good hardy climbing 

 shrub. 



Fuchsia Riccartoni. Height, 8 feet. This plant is 

 almost hardy, and if injured by frost will spring up from 

 beneath the ground and flower freely in the autumn. The 

 same may be said of F. virgata. Both bear red flowers, 

 and are very graceful. 



Genista linctoria flore pleno. Height, I foot. This 

 beautiful little plant is profusely adorned with yellow 

 flowers in early spring, and is well suited for the front of 

 borders and for rockwork. G. purgans is a very showy 

 kind, and, as in the case of many species of Cytisus, forms 

 a fine lawn tree worked on stems of the Laburnum. 



Hibiscus syriacus (Althaea frutex). Height, 5 feet. 

 There are few autumn-flowering shrubs so handsome as 

 these, and they grow freely in any soil. There are many 

 varieties with red, white, purple, and variegated flowers ; 

 some are single, others double. 



Liriodendron tulipiferum (the Tulip Tree). Height, 60 

 feet. One of the grandest of park or lawn trees, but re- 

 quiring considerable space. The leaves are large and 

 curiously cut ; the flowers, which are greenish yellow, of a 

 deeper colour inside, are produced in June and July. 



Magnolia conspicua. Height, 20 feet. This plant is 

 usually placed against a wall, but in light loamy or 

 peaty soils it thrives well in the open garden, where the 

 masses of large white oval flowers make it a conspicuous 

 object in early spring. M. purpurea and M. Lenne, the 

 latter especially, are beautiful purple-flowered kinds. M. 

 Soulangeana is also a desirable variety, the flowers being 

 white tinged with purple. 



Persica vulgaris flore pleno (the double-flowering Peach). 

 Height, 15 feet. We know not whether to admire these 

 plants most as pyramids in the forcing-house or as stan- 

 dards out-of-doors'; in both positions they are exquisitely 

 beautiful. The double rose, double crimson, double white, 

 and camellia-flowered are the best. A striped variety of 



