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Ornamental Shrubs. 



the leaves of which are covered with hairs on both 

 surfaces. 



There has been recently introduced a class of hybrids 



some of which are known to 

 be of a superior value. They 

 are the products of the skill 

 and ingenuity of M. Lemoine, 

 to whom the horticultural 

 world has become so greatly 

 indebted as a hybridist. Most 

 of them are not yet in culti- 

 vation in America, but doubt- 

 less will be at an early day. 

 Among others they include 

 the following : P. lemoinei av- 

 alanche, the best known, is de- 

 scribed as having long, slender 

 branches, and very large, white, fra- 

 grant blossoms, bending the stems 

 under their weight. It is a bush from 

 six to eight feet in height, and has 

 often been figured in the magazines and catalogues, and is 

 more or less familiar. P. lemoinei candelabre is another free- 

 flowering variety, and has white flowers of unusual size, 

 and prettily dentated and undulated. This is quite dwarf 

 in habit, and makes a charming, compact little mass of 

 blossoms. P. lemoinei erectus is an upright bush, and has 

 small, very sweet flowers, while two others, called sheaf 0/ 

 snow and Mont Blanc have large, fragrant flowers like the 

 others of this class, completely covering the shrub at the 



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