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ties umbellicata, auranttaca, and others ; and 

 also numerous lovely flesh-colored kinds. 



The double-flowering white Japanese peaches 

 have appeared with Spirceas Thunbergii and 

 prunifolia. It is not because its blossom is 

 whiter than the Spirccas, but because it so re- 

 sembles the great flakes of the last flurry of 

 snow, that the white peach seems the whitest 

 of all flowering shrubs. The variety versicolor 

 plena surprises one by its strange freak of pro- 

 ducing variously white, red, and variegated flow- 

 ers on the tree at the same time. It is nothing 

 new to advise planting white-flowering trees and 

 shrubs, with evergreens for a background ; nev- 

 ertheless, it is good advice always worth repeat- 

 ing. 



The rose and red flowering peaches are like- 

 wise highly ornamental, and all the double-flow- 

 ering cherries, notably the double white, may be 

 placed in the same class. Most of the flower- 

 ing crabs are beautiful. The blossom of the 

 fragrant garland-flowering crab {Pyrus malus 

 coronaria odoratd) is not nearly as big as its 

 name might imply, being a modest blush-flower 

 borne in clusters, with the perfume of sweet vio- 

 lets. But while admiring this and many other 

 ornamental flowering trees, let us not overlook 

 the glorious inflorescence of the apple itself, a 



