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Ornamental Shrubs. 



fitted to be formed into a round, compact head, as is often 

 done in the best gardens. 



F. veridissima takes its specific name from the bright 

 green leaves which it carries, rather than from the color of 

 its flowers, which are golden-yellow and among the first to 

 appear fn spring. This is the plant longest and best 

 known in our gardens, and. the species 

 , which drew so many praises from 

 flower-lovers a hundred years ago and 

 which were by no means unmerited. 

 It is of erect, spreading habit, and 

 entirely hardy. F. suspensa differs 

 but little from the other form, except 

 that its long, slender branches are 

 slightly pendant at their terminals, 

 and so are by many esteemed more 

 graceful. The blossoms may not be 

 quite so numerous, but the plant as a 

 whole is fully as good, though not 

 especially to be preferred except for 

 training on walls or trellises where it 

 will have a wider spread. A corre- 

 spondent in Meehans Monthly gave an account, some time 

 since, of an instance where a plant was kept to a single 

 stem for ten feet, and then allowed to spread on the trellis, 

 where it did good service by way of affording shade to a 

 doorway which was too sunny an exposure. This illustrates 

 its capabilities in that direction. The plant is sometimes 

 catalogued under the names F. fortunei and F. sieboldi, 

 but these are to be regarded merely as synonyms. 



WEEPING GOLDEN BELL. 



■ (forsythia suspensa.) 



