Shrubs and Vines 
flowers, and in JZ. gracilis they are a rich purple. Con- 
spicuously different from all others is AZ. ste//ata, a hardy 
sort from Japan, also in the Park, whose small flowers 
have about fifteen narrow petals, rayed like a star. It 
blossoms very early, is fragrant, like most of the mag- 
nolias, and its smalier size makes it more suitable for 
some situations than any of the others. 
Our only native species in shrub form—and even this 
is quite arborescent—is the swamp magnolia, or sweet 
bay, JZ. glauca, whose extreme northern limit is prob- 
ably Cape Ann, in the northeast corner of Massachusetts. 
This has smaller blossoms than most of the others, but 
remains well in flower, and is quite fragrant. The leaf- 
type is essentially the same throughout the genus, and 
the rich heavy foliage partly atones for the rather un- 
graceful figure of most of the species, and affords a pleas- 
ing contrast to other greens. _It is unnecessary to enu- 
merate the other species and hybrids in cultivation, as 
the differences are not very conspicuous. 
The genus mulberry, containing several interesting 
trees, is here referred to only to call attention to a curi- 
ous and beautiful variety that might be reckoned among 
the shrubs, effected by grafting pendulous stock upon a 
short shaft—the Russian weeping mulberry. ‘The leaf 
is very unique and variable in contour, and the mass of 
luxuriant growth sweeping on all sides to the ground, 
completely hiding the supporting trunk, is singularly 
beautiful. 
A genus little known, but affording a valuable accession 
to our list of ornamental shrubs, is “/eagnus, or oleas- 
ter, whose special characteristics are foliage that is dark 
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