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for lawn-planting, because it forms one of the limited class 

 of shrubs suited for occupying the outskirts of shrub- 

 groups, or some limited space where low, compact-growing 

 plants are specially valuable. It is a thrifty, vigorous 

 shrub, well known, and deservedly popular. 



The purple hazel shows very rich colors in June. Its 

 leaves are deep purple, as deep as those of the purple beech, 

 but it is more straggling in habit than the purple beech and 

 otherwise less attractive, although a valuable ornamental 

 shrub. Its main fault is a tendency to winter-kill at the 

 tips, but the effect of this is to dwarf the plant rather than 

 to do it any other harm. 



And thus you have briefly, and with scant justice I con- 

 fess, a rapid survey of the best purple- and variegated- 

 leaved trees and shrubs specially effective in June. It 

 is my desire to gain by means of this consideration a 

 greater and more enthusiastic regard for the rich, subtle 

 tints of the leaves of trees and shrubs, whether used singly 

 or in groups, and certainly nothing can illustrate better 

 these wonderful colors of hardy plants than the phases 

 presented in Jun,e by the trees and shrubs just mentioned. 



Let us turn now to the flowers of trees and shrubs in 

 June. They make in truth the crown and summit of 

 nature's summer efforts. Full, fresh vigor at this high tide 

 of the year intensifies the loveliness of all vegetation, but 

 flowers are specially lovely now, both for numbers and de- 

 lightful color and odor. How and where shall I begin ? 

 It would seem actually as if all flowers bloomed at this 

 season, and one might easily construct a most attractive 

 lawn of exclusively June flowering plants. 



