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THB CANADIAN HORTI0DLTDRI8T. 



THE PIN 



assume a drooping habit, and tlie lower 

 ones sweep the gi'ound. 



Our illustration shows one of these 

 trees at the age of ten years, with a 

 height of twenty feet, and a girth of 

 twenty inches. 



VARIEGATED SHRUBS. 



Many shrubs, with variegated and 

 colored leaves, are very beautiful in 

 their early spring foliage, but when 

 the summer heat comes on, the varie- 



gation is lost, and the shrubs present 

 only green leaves, and in colored leaved 

 kinds, of a dull, muddy green, less 

 pleasing than in the normal form of the 

 plant. There are two shrubs, howevei", 

 that have pi-oved thoroughly satisfac- 

 tory in all seasons. One of these is 

 the " Purple-leaved Barberry," a form 

 of the common Bai-berry (Berberis vul- 

 garis), the leaves of which are of a rich 

 maroon-purple color, and remain so. 

 The flowers of this variety are very 

 pretty, being of a darker yellow than 



