All weigelas are splendid shrubs, especially the 

 Conquete, which has unusually large, deep, rose flow- 

 ers ; and also the white Candida. 



For evergreen shrubs we may get the Daphne 

 Cneorum, a very dwarf trailing plant with pretty 

 pink flowers ; Leucothoe Catesbaei, a shrub with bell- 

 shaped white blossoms; the American holly; Andro- 

 meda Japonica, an evergreen from Japan, and 

 Berberis stenophylla, which has leaves suggesting the 

 holly. (Don't you wish they had named plants 

 plain, sensible names, such as Sally, Bill and Bea- 

 trice?) 



I have left my very heart's love to the last — the 

 rhododendron. There is no shrub which can ap- 

 proach it in beauty, either when blooming or bare, 

 for its leaves, radiating starlike from branches, are 

 of a richness and glossiness which would make it 

 worth growing even if it never flowered. And the 

 blossoms — their beauty is overpowering! Deepest 

 purple, lavender, reddish-purple, white — it would be 

 hard to say which is loveliest. 



It is best to get them by the dozen, for to begin 

 with one would never satisfy anybody, and they are 

 much cheaper in quantity, ranging in price from 

 five to ten dollars a dozen. For large estates they 



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