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this species are very desirable. It makes a very large, 

 upright shrnb, with pink or yellow blossoms that are fol- 

 lowed by bright scarlet berries. 



CALYCANTHUS, sweet-scented shrub, strawberry-bush, etc, 

 (Caty cant-hits Floridus), Fig. 104. A very hardy, vigorous- 



FIG. 104. CALYCANTHUS (Calycanthut Floridus). 



growing shrub with brown or chocolate-colored very sweet- 

 scented flowers. It is easily propagated from seed, which 

 it produces abundantly, and grows well on almost all kinds 

 of soil; not a shoAvy shrub, but desirable for the fragrance 

 of its flowers. 



MOCK-ORANGE (PMladelplius coronariux), Fig. 105. 

 Often called the syringa, but as this is the Latin name of 

 the lilac it cannot be properly applied to this plant. It is 

 well called the mock-orange, for its flowers somewhat 

 resemble the orange-blossom, and are equally fragrant, 

 though with not so delicate a perfume. It grows to a large 

 size, but retains its regular rounded bush form even when 

 of great age. 



GOLDEN-LEAVED MOCK-ORANGE (P. c., var. aurea). 

 Very similar in leaf and flower to the last, but of a smaller 



