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established thrives in the open border. It is a sturdy 

 bush seldom exceeding four feet in height with erect 

 branches, and in early spring its twigs, throughout 

 their entire length, are covered with rose-colored 

 or in case of the variety alba with white, fragrant 

 flowers. 



Very beautiful, too, is the Garland-flower (Daphne 

 cneorum), a native of the Caucasus. This is a low- 

 growing tufted plant not exceeding a foot in height, 

 but densely branched and with gray-green leaves 

 and terminal rounded clusters of rose-pink, deli- 

 ciously scented flowers. The charming plant blos- 

 soms most profusely in the early spring, and through 

 the summer and autumn a few flowers continue to 

 open. Both for the rockery and open border this is 

 a delightful subject. 



For the most ornamental of early spring-flowering 

 shrubs and trees, the gardens of eastern North Amer- 

 ica depend, not upon native nor upon European 

 plants, but upon those of China and Japan. These 

 lands, too, have their catkin-bearing Willows, Poplars, 

 Alders, and Hazelnuts; their Elms, Maples, and 

 other plants with flowers clustered on naked twigs. 

 They have, in addition, a variety of shrubs and trees 

 which have large and brightly colored flowers that 

 are conspicuous from afar, and it is these that are 



