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MY SHRUBS 



graceful habit has charmed and cheered generations of gardeners. 

 Japan and China, Siberia and North America produce the genus, 

 and the hybridizer is still busy with them. I possess a few scattered 

 about the garden, and best I like W. argentea variegata, a beautiful 

 shrub with white and green foliage and pale rose-pink flowers. 

 The Canadian, W. trifida, has yellow blossoms, but I know not if 

 it is cultivated. The honey-yellow W. sessilifolia, from Eastern 

 United States, is also a handsome plant. 



Westringia is an extra-tropical Australian, but W. rosmarini- 

 formis, the Victorian Rosemary, will succeed in a sunny, well- 

 drained corner with winter care. It is not a very showy shrub, but 

 has a neat, crisp habit, and the little, labiate, white flowers are freely 

 produced. 



Whipplea modesta is a tiny shrub a high alpine from California. 

 I have it in half shade in a moraine looking very unwell. 



Wistaria, named after Professor Caspar Wistar of Pennsylvania 

 University, is a small genus, of which W. chinensis is the splendid 

 and familiar climber. The Japanese variety is white, while W. multi- 

 juga y also from Japan, has lavender racemes, much longer and 

 thinner than the Chinese plant. An adult and prosperous W. multi- 

 juga will give you tresses of two feet in length. There is no lovelier 

 thing than this on a standard, or grown espalier fashion. A pink 

 variety is now in cultivation. Of W. frutescens, the shrubby North 

 American species, there are some fair hybrids, and I should dearly 

 like to learn where Wistaria/, magnifaa may be secured. 



Xanthoceras sorbifolia is an excellent monotypic species from 

 China. Its delicate mountain-ash-like foliage is deciduous, and the 

 flowers are white touched with crimson at the base and borne in 

 simple racemes during April. This good and beautiful shrub will 



