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NOTE. ""Indicates a good selection; **Indicates first choice. Colored varieties should 



be separated by white varieties unless one is sure the colors will harmonize. 



White 



Early single. **Marie Le Graye, Vestale Bertha Alexander, Virginalis. 



Medium single. Alba grandiflora, **Frau Bertha Damman, Princess Alexander. 



Medium double. *Madame de Miller (dwarf). 



Late single. Alba pyramidalis. 



Late double: Madame Lemoine, **Miss Ellen Willmot. 



Pink to rosy lilac 



Medium single. **Charles X (rosy lilac), Dr. Regel, Gloire de Moulins, Lilarosa, **Mach- 

 rostachia, Rubra insignis. 



Medium double. Antoine Buchner, Comte de Kerchove, *Emil Lemoine, Fuerst Lichen- 

 stein, Maxime Cornu. 



Late single. Othello. / 



Blue to bluish lavender 



Early single. **Bleutre, Cserulea superba. 



Medium single. Jacques Callot, *Justi, Madame Briot. 



Medium double. Doctor Masters, **President Grdvy (semi-double), Victor Lemoine. 



Late single. Gilbert. 



Deep purple-red to reddish 



Early single. **Philemon. 



Medium single. *Danton, Milton, Pasteur, Uncle Tom. 



Medium double. *Le Tour Auvergne, Marechal de Boussompierre, Souvenir de L. Thi- 

 baut. 



Late single. *Aline Mocquery, **Congo, Ludwig Spaeth, Toussaint 1'Ouverture. 



Late double. *Charles Joly. 



Van Houtte's Spiraea is unrivaled for prolificacy and grace of 

 bloom. The white clusters of bloom, however, are soon shattered by 

 the rains and at best it does not give a very permanent flower effect. 

 For the early Spring display there is nothing so cheery as the yellow 

 flowers of the Golden Bell (Forsythia), of which there are several 

 forms; the one known as suspensa is most effective when planted at 

 the top of a wall or rock ledge and allowed to grow down. There is 

 a road in the city of Ithaca, New York, which is most attractive in the 

 Spring owing to its wonderful golden display from this shrub; even 

 after flowering the foliage retains a good color. The upright forms need 

 to be massed, as individuals are not graceful. 



Excellent beds or borders are arranged, using tall shrubs, such as 

 Red Bud (Gercis) and Hawthorns, at the back, with Mock Orange and 

 Wiegela at the midground and edged with Deutzia gracilis or Spiraea 

 Thunbergii; or for lower beds, the use of Berberis vulgaris at back with 

 Berberis Thunbergii and Mahonia in foreground. 



For a bed remaining attractive during the Winter use a few Ker- 

 ria japonicas, which have green twigs, or Cornus alba sibirica, with its 

 red twigs, both of which retain their color all Winter. 



There is a great group of shrubs with beautiful foliage. None 

 equals the graceful horizontal branching of Regel's Privet. The flow- 

 ers are not very conspicuous, being white, but they are followed by 

 attractive black berries. The dainty narrow, minute foliage of the 

 Spiraea Thunbergii is excellent; the tiny white flowers coming in early 

 May add an extra charm. In the region of central New York the tips of 

 branches Winter-kill, so that they need to be dressed a little in the Spring. 



