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marbled with metallic green and brownish-purple 

 above; R. Swinhoei with narrow oblong pointed 

 leaves, gray on the underside; and R. ichangensis 

 with vivid green nearly heart-shaped, pointed leaves 

 and large elongated clusters of bright red fruits. All 

 these Brambles have slender whip-like shoots and 

 when trained to poles or to a pergola are very attrac- 

 tive. 



New deciduous-leaved flowering shrubs are so 

 very numerous that I hesitate to embark on the 

 subject and I shall content myself with the mention 

 of three groups. The Deutzias are much appreciated 

 spring-flowering shrubs and in our gardens we enjoy 

 several old species and the wonderful race of beauti- 

 ful hybrids evolved by the late Monsieur Victor 

 Lemoine of glorious memory. In addition to these 

 China has given us quite recently a number of very 

 distinct and lovely species such as the rosy-lilac 

 flowered D. longifolia and its more deeply colored 

 variety Veitchii; D. Wilsonii with glistening white 

 flowers larger than those of any of its allies; D. dis- 

 color with large masses of white flowers; D. Schnei- 

 deriana and its variety laxiflora with pyramidate 

 trusses of white flowers, and the curious D. mollis 

 with soft hairy leaves and flattened heads of small 

 white flowers. These species are valuable for em- 



