SHRUBS FOR PLANTING 



several varieties of mock oranges now in use, of which 

 the aureus is useful among other shrubs on account 

 of the golden tones of its foliage. As with the For- 

 sythias, it is customary to prune the mock oranges 

 shortly after their bloom is over. 



Calycanthus floridus is also a shrub of old-time 

 memory and sentiment. It is the strawberry-scented 

 shrub, the reddish brown blossoms of which have been 

 laid away among mouchoirs and trifles innumerable. 

 Indeed, this shrub is well worth a place either within 

 or without the garden. Its habit of growth is rounded 

 and bushy and the little flowers give pleasure as long 

 as they endure. In mass planting it is rather lost. 



The common elder, Sambucus Canadensis, will 

 often do well in damp soil, where it is difficult to grow 

 many other shrubs. In June, its flat heads of white 

 flowers are very pleasing. 



So many, indeed, are the shrubs of spring and early 

 summer, so many the varieties ever on the increase, 

 and so unrelentingly do they follow each other in 

 succession, that the pageant wanes almost before we 

 have become used to its gaiety. July opens with 

 the greater number of shrubs disburdened of their 

 bloom; it presents an open field for those that are yet 

 to come. 



The rose of Sharon (Althcea), Hibiscus Syriacus, 

 is particularly effective in July, opening then its 

 white, pink, lavender, or even china blue flowers, 

 according to the variety, and holding them until 

 early autumn. When grown as specimens, these shrubs 

 develop a symmetrical form of considerable dignity, 



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