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shiue — but if you have shade aud you waut soinethiug or other to grow- 

 there, Philadelphus is liliely to succeed. This aud the red suowball 



are almost tlie ouly important phiuts which would grow under this 

 adverse treatment. 



The cornels are good, Tartarian honey-suckle, elder, or elder blows, 

 particularly the one with golden foliage, make a lawn or belt of shrub- 

 bery plantation attractive when the plants are no longer in flower. 



There are a great mauj' Viburnums which attract attention at the 

 present time and two are well known to you, the tree cranberry- and 

 suowball, easily attainable fi-om the ordinarj- nursery. 



A Japanese shrub which is wortliv of mention is Forsythia. There are 

 two or three species; the best is probably Forsythia Fortuni. 



The lilacs are all desirable. There aie not onl}- the old common white 

 and purple, but new hybrids are introduced in wonderful colors; thej' 

 remind you of the French millinery colors in their shades, from the 

 purest white to the deepest purple, almost black. Then we have some 

 new ones from Japan These are called tree lilacs. If one buys them 

 Avith the expectation of getting the flowers which we associate with our 

 common lilacs he is disappointed; but they have beautiful clusters, two 

 or three times bigger than the ordinary lilacs, but without the fivagrauce. 



HAKDY VINES. 



For vines there is nothing better than the various clematis. Every- 

 thing depends upon the use to which the vine is to be put. To cover a 

 fence or to cover a stone wall plant the Clematis Yirginiaua, or Virgin's 

 Bower, our wood clematis, and intermingle with it the woodbine, the 

 combination is as good as anything obtainable. If you waut a little rarer 

 or less common clematis and one which is perhaps to grow on the porch 

 of the house, use Cleraautis Jackmaui. This blooms in Julj' or early in 

 August. Clematis Paniculata is a clematis from Japan and is very much 

 like our own "Traveller's Joy," but gives us flowers late in September 

 instead of early in July. 



One of the best vines where a number are required, as for instance in 

 adorning the porch or piazza of a house, is Hall's Japanese honeysuckle. 

 It is a plant which has now been established in its cultivation for some 

 twenty-five years, which is thoroughly durable. It gives you a mass, 

 great quantity of white flowers early in the season, as sweet and fragrant 

 as they can be and when September comes it repeats the crop; it is truly 

 an ever-blooming honej'suckle. 



The wisterias are among our finest and best vines. We have the Chinese, 

 that which gives you great large of blue flowers earlj- in the season 

 before the leaves ai-e fairlj' developed, and then we have two from Japan, 

 cue with blue and one with white flowers, aud these give you clusters of 

 flowers a foot or even eighteen to twenty-four inches ia length. Whether 

 or not these will be hardy it is more difllcult to say. All the wisterias 

 are subject to bad attacks from the winter, but with us those Japanese 

 wisterias are proving as hardy as the Chinese. 



