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The variety with variegated leaves, named tricolor) is very showy, but less 

 vigorous than the type. L. Quihoui, also from China, a splendid shrub 

 for dry soils, is of rather straggling habit, and looks best planted in groups. 

 As it flowers so late in the season it should be planted largely in public 

 parks and open spaces. Its flowering period is from September to the 

 middle of October, but in mild seasons blooms on until early November. 

 Its flowers are cream-white, sweet scented, and borne in rather slender 

 panicles. L. japonicum is of sturdy habit, six feet or so high, with glossy 

 green leaves and large panicles of white flowers about the middle of July. 



Liquidambar Styraciflua. The value of this rather slow-growing 

 North American Sweet Gum-tree is not in its flowers, for they are far 

 from showy, but in its autumn effect in the landscape, as its smooth leaves 

 at that season of the year assume mahogany-brown, crimson, and allied 

 colours. It is a splendid tree for small avenues, succeeding best in rather 

 moist deep soil, and when the position is fully exposed to the sun the 

 autumn-tinted foliage is very handsome. 



Liriodendron Tulipifera (Tulip Tree) is a vigorous North American 

 Tree, handsome for its broad distinct leaves, and large Tulip-like sweet- 

 scented yellow flowers in August. In growth it is erect, and its grey 

 bark is streaked with white. The leaves change in autumn to yellow. 

 There are several varieties, but the one with golden leaves, named aurea, 

 is the most effective. It is very showy, grows well, and its bold leaves 

 are heavily blotched with yellow. A new form has been introduced 

 from China under the name of chinensis. 



Lpniceras (Honeysuckles). The Honeysuckle is too familiar to need 

 description. Its pretty slender growths and fragrant flowers are the glory 

 of many an English hedgerow. There are climbers and bush kinds, the 

 latter being useful for the border and the climbers for draping walls, tree 

 stumps, pergolas, and similar erections. Of the border kinds, Z. Tor- 

 mentella, a fairly well-known kind, is valuable principally for its late 

 flowering, its small pink flowers appearing in pairs generally in July. 

 L. fragrantissima is one of the few hardy shrubs to flower in winter out 

 of doors. As a wall shrub it is very satisfactory, as it is free in flower 

 and growth too, and although its white flowers are small they are de- 

 liciously scented. L. Standishi is another winter-flowering Honeysuckle, 

 with delightfully fragrant flowers. Where sweet-scented winter-flower- 

 ing shrubs are required planters will do well to remember these two 

 Honeysuckles. L. Alberti, a dwarf kind, is very rare, and from the 

 middle of June to the middle of July displays its dainty rose-coloured 

 flowers. L. involucrata, known also as L. Ledebourii, bears yellowish 

 red flowers freely in June. L. tatarica forms a dense bush, six feet or 

 so high, and in May and June is very pretty with its wealth of rose- 

 coloured flowers. Honeysuckles thrive in any good garden soil. 



Loropetalum chinense. This is a Witch Hazel-like shrub, very 

 rare, pretty, early flowering, and of dwarf growth, with cream-white 

 flowers composed of long slender petals. Ordinary well-drained soil suits 

 it, and select a sunny position to enable it to thoroughly mature its wood. 



Magnolias. A large and beautiful family of shrubs and trees, 



