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flowers, in early summer. It is generally treated as 

 a climber for walls or trellis. The foliage is scanty, 

 and the growth of the plant rather attenuated and 

 straggling. 



Leycesterea Leycesterea formosa. Not quite a 

 pretty shrub for the lawn, but nice for drives or 

 shrubbery. It grows in long shoots from the 

 ground, like a bamboo, with rather flabby leaves, 

 and hanging flowers of dark red and white in late 

 autumn. 



Pyrus. The Py ruses include a large group of 

 flowering trees and bushes. The prettiest kinds 

 for use in the garden are the Pyrus mains or 

 Flowering Crabs. They can be grown either as 

 small standard trees, or as bushes, and most of 

 them have pink flowers, with deeper coloured buds, 

 appearing in great profusion before the leaves, in 

 early spring. P. m. floribunda, P. m. Niedzwetz- 

 kyana, and P. m. baccata or the Siberian Crab, 

 are all very beautiful varieties. 



Ribes. "Flowering Currant," as this is often 

 called, is a very pretty shrub when in flower, but is 

 not suitable for garden beds, rather for shrubberies, 

 or rougher parts of the garden. It is quite at its 

 best hanging over water ; and if seen thus, with its 



