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cherries, quinces, and almonds), the mountain laurel, rho- 

 dodendron, the azaleas, dogwoods, deutzias, lilacs, spiraeas, 

 honeysuckles, the mock-orange, the wild thorns, the snow- 

 balls. Summer bloomers are rarer; the best are the wild 

 roses, and rosa rugosa, the Japanese rose (these are mostly 

 single. I shall speak of the other roses elsewhere) ; Japa- 

 nese kerria, hydrangea, Canadian elder, tamarisk. 



Foliage shrubs are the weigelas, oleaster, box, oak-leaved 

 hydrangea, laurel and rhododendron, the privets, the buck- 

 thorns, the sumacs, Japanese wineberry, the willows, and 

 some of the viburnums. 



Pod or berry-bearing shrubs are the Japanese barberry, 

 the common barberry, the wayfaring tree, rosa rugosa, the 

 hawthorns, the bladder senna, cotoneaster, Japan quince, 

 the elders, winterberry, nine-bark. 



Some of these shrubs belong in more than one class. 

 Their number is very great, and the spiraeas, lilacs, willows, 

 viburnums, dogwoods, and others have so many forms that 

 a buyer should make the nurseryman carefully explain the 

 differences, pointing them out in the nursery as they stand. 

 Indeed, it is always best to go to a nursery the year before 

 buying if possible, or in the fall or early spring, and see the 

 shrubs for one's self. Or one can roam amongst the neigh- 

 bors' gardens, learning the virtues of the different shrubs, 

 and so making a choice. 



All these shrubs are hardy. A good selection of them is : 

 forsythia viridissima, deutzia lemoinei, several lilacs, spiraea 

 van Houttei, rosa rugosa, hydrangea paniculata. 



The soil for a shrubbery should be made as deep and rich 

 as possible. Take out all the stones, wheel in all the com- 

 post and manure that you can possibly afford, and spade 

 them in deeply, at the same time taking out all roots of per- 

 ennial weeds. If you have nothing to put in but fresh manure 



