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cherry, peach, and plum in endless variety 

 Siberian crabs, beautiful in flower and, later in 

 autumn, fruit, the Japanese P. mains floribunda, 

 and the Canadian June berry. Throughout the 

 spring there is no lack of colour. Spirteas, ber- 

 beris of many sorts, especially B. Darwinii and 

 the fine hybrid B. stenophylla, Ceanothus, For- 

 sythia suspensa, Choisya ternata, and a host of 

 others, with laburnum, lilac, and hawthorns, scar- 

 let and pink as well as white, bring us to the end 

 of June. With July comes somewhat of a pause; 

 but gum cistus, and other shrubby species of cis- 

 tus, with good use of the dwarf sun roses (Heli- 

 anthemum) still help to give colour and brightness, 

 and with a " happy marriage " here and there of 

 rambling roses with some of the more slender- 

 growing trees at the back, the shrubbery may be 

 as charming as at any time. 



In August the dwarf North American buck-eye 

 (dEsculus parviflora) is in great beauty, and some 

 yuccas should be in flower, and feathery tamarisk, 

 growing from six to twelve feet high, strikes a 

 distinct note. Hydrangeas then take up the run- 

 ning, and are especially valuable because they do 

 not object to overhead shade if not too dense, and 

 (with hardy fuchsias, like F. Riccartoni and Mme. 

 Cornelliseri) will add greatly to the charms of the 

 shrubbery in September and October, particularly 

 in those localities where they can be induced to 

 bear blue flowers. The pretty dwarf Caryopteris 

 Mastacanthus, with lavender flowers, also fits well 

 into an autumn scheme. Many of the shrubs 

 which have flowered in the spring give besides 



