THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



JULY, 1853. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 

 Art. I. The Sfwubs of Amei'ica. 



Nothing adds more to the interest of a beautiful garden or 

 pleasure ground than an abundance of fine flowering shrubs. 

 Perennial plants, showy as they are, make no display early 

 or late in the season ; annuals, brilliant with their masses of 

 bloom in the summer months, soon lose their beauty in the 

 autumn ; and the verbena, geranium, and other bedding 

 plants, Avhich contribute so much to the decoration of the 

 grounds, are yet only temporary treasures, which almost dis- 

 appear with the first frost. From June to September, a good 

 collection of perennials, annuals and bedding plants affords 

 abundance of beauty and blossom. This, however, is but 

 three months out of the revolving twelve. It may please 

 the city amateur who goes to Newport or Nahant to loiter 

 away the dog-days, but will never satisfy the genuine country 

 resident, who rarely seeks the city, or, if from business or 

 necessity is compelled to, returns again with the earliest de- 

 parture of winter. To him the early season of spring and 

 the last days of autumn are the loveliest of the year. The 

 budding and leafing of trees and shrubs in spring, and the 

 changing hues of their foliage in autumn, are a source of 

 pleasure which even the dazzle of summer flowers fails to 

 supply. Even the varied spray of a denuded shrub, in mid- 

 winter, has a charm which by constant notice becomes a 

 thing of real beauty. Indeed, he who owns a garden with- 



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