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Toringa and Spectabilis groups we would recognize anywhere 

 as Crab-apples, being more diffuse in habit and exceedingly 

 Horiferous. At a later visit I found all the Crab-apples, with 

 the exception of a few American species, past, and of these 

 Prunus coronaria is the most noteworthy. It is a tree worth a 

 place in any garden ; it is handsome in foliage, and in flower 

 fragrant as a Tea Rose. 



The European Lilacs are about past, and a long bank of 

 these in bloom together makes a gorgeous show. Although 

 grouped for comparison rather than effect, the average visitor 

 considers them only from the latter standpoint ; and while the 

 landscape-artist may object to such planting, it is invaluable 

 for study and comparison. Among the best varieties I noted 

 Alba grandiflora, white ; Dr. Regel, lavender ; Lagraye, white ; 

 Virginite, double blue, fading to white, the most admired in 

 the group; Massart, purple; Notger, blush; Leon Simon, 

 double light blue ; Lemoine's new hybrid, Lewis Henry, has very 

 large blue flowers, in size covering a silver quarter dollar by 

 actual trial. Concordat has the largest panicle of any in the 

 group, measuring fourteen inches in length and breadth. The 



free; L. media, dwarf and graceful ; L. vulgare, the common 

 European Privet, stiff and with dark leaves. This is a common 

 hedge plant in the Old World, but is not nearly as handsome 

 as the Californian L. ovalifolium, where this will succeed. 



Cotoneaster reflexa is very free-flowering. It was a sheet 

 of white and strikingly beautiful. Caragana arborescens, the 

 Siberian Pea Tree, is a beautiful shrub or small tree which 

 should be better known. In habit it suggests Cassia marilan- 

 dica, with showy yellow pea-like flowers. There are several 

 kinds, and a weeping form, C. grandiflora, is the handsomest. 



Shrubby Spineas were plentifully in bloom. S. arguta, new, 

 is intermediate in habit and time of blooming between S. 

 Thunbergii and S. Van Houttei. It makes a handsome bush. 

 S. pubescens, from China, is another distinct kind. S. rotun- 

 difolia is valuable on account of its lateness. C. cana sav- 

 ranica has a neat feathery habit. A selection of Barberries 

 includes Berberis Cretica, with glaucous foliage, an exceed- 

 ingly dwarf form of B. Thunbergii, B. heteropoda, fine foliage 

 and large flowers, and some good forms of B. vulgaris. 



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more distinct Japanese and Chinese species and varieties will 

 not be open until well into June. Of the group, L. villosa, pur- 

 ple, fading to white, and very handsome, is the earliest, and is 

 just opening. A noble specimen of the Tree Lilac, Syringa 

 Japonica, already nearly thirty feet high, will be worth a visit 

 when it is covered by hundreds of diffuse panicles of creamy 

 white flowers. L. Pekinensis also forms a graceful tree. 



The Bush Honeysuckles afford much variety. Lonicera 

 Tartarica is represented by several forms which differ mostly 

 in the color of their flowers ; these vary from creamy white to 

 pure white and clear pink. There are, besides, several dis- 

 tinct species well worthy of cultivation. L. Morrowi is a neat 

 bush with gracefully recurving branches clothed with a mass 

 of blush-white flowers. L. Alberti has pink flowers and is of 

 prostrate habit ; L. savranica makes a neat bush. L. alpigera 

 has red flowers, and the pretty L. minutceflora white and pink 

 flowers. 



The Privets form an interesting group, and when in bloom, 

 a week from now, will be a sheet of fragrant white flowers. 

 Ligustrum Ibota, a Japan species, is loose-habited and 



Native Water-lilies. 



"XT YMPH/EA ODORATA, the well-known fragrant Pond Lily 

 -L ' of North America, and N. tuberosa are the only two 

 Nymplueas indigenous to the United States east of the Missis- 

 sippi, as given by Professor Asa Gray. Of the first species 

 there are many forms, which vary in size and color, and of the 

 latter there are varieties with white and pinkish flowers 

 which range from white to bright pink-red, while in size 

 they range from five inches in diameter downward, according 

 to soil and location. Since the introduction ol NympliEeas 

 into the flower garden they have become very popular, and 

 many new forms, by hybrids and sports, have been introduced 

 in such variety that no water garden is complete without them. 

 The following list of varieties will show the truth of this state- 

 ment : Nymphasa odorata, white, sweet-scented, large ; variety 

 Caroliniana, rosy pink, shaded salmon, largi r than the type; 

 Exquisite, rosy carmine ; L T nion, white and small ; Rosea, the 

 well-known Cape Cod pink Pond Lily, larger than the type; 

 Rosacasa, salmon-pink; Sulphurea, hybrid, yellow. The 



