118 MY GROWING GARDEN 



planting before described, I have been able to 

 make this regal evergreen shrub feel very much at 

 home at Breeze Hill. Would anyone suppose that 

 these great plants had been only fifteen months 

 away from the wild? And how they help in the 

 working out of my picture vistas ! 



That worth-while hydrangea, the one with the 

 portentous botanical cognomen of H. arborescens 

 var. grandiflora, is in full flower in early July. It is 

 far more graceful than the common paniculata 

 grandiflora which has been so greatly overplanted 

 in the United States, and blooms earher. In a 

 half -shady place where the morning sun reaches it, 

 it grows rapidly and blooms superbly. "Hills of 

 Snow" is one impossible "common" name it 

 suffers under; and various nurserymen hitch vari- 

 ous adjectives to it in addition. Sometimes it has 

 the botanical name of Hydrangea arborescens 

 sterilis, but according to Professor Sargent the 

 grandiflora name is the proper one. 



Name aside, it is a most excellent shrub, with 

 many merits. I find that it resents full sun, and 

 that with morning shade arid afternoon sun it -is 

 quite uncomfortable. It will bloom and grow in 

 nearly complete shade, though not so vigorously. 



Some other early hydrangeas are in the Arbore- 

 tum bed, and stray blooms suggest their value when 



