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JUNE EFFECTS ON THE LAWN. 



acquires far greater beauty fi'om a deep-crimson flush that 

 sufJuses the very curious and formal arrangement of pistils 

 and stamens. This arrangement and color give the flower 

 the appearance of having a deep-red heart. The foliage 

 and general habit of JZ parviflora is neat and thrifty. 



The purple fringe, Rhus cotinus, although somewhat in- 

 ferior to the white fringe in general characteristics, and to 

 which, indeed, it bears no relation except in name, is exqui- 

 sitely subtle and lovely in the coloring of its flowers. These 

 flowers come in June and envelop the entire bush or tree 

 in rosy-purple, rounded masses of soft, fleecy clouds. It is 

 well-named the smoke tree, for I know nothing to which 

 the disposition and coloring of its small, numerous flowers 

 can be more aptly compared than a mass of smoke sufiused 

 and penetrated with sunlight. 



On first turning to the consideration of summer- 

 flowering plants, we are 

 at once attracted to the 

 most splendidly gifted 

 of the entire class, viz. : 

 Rhododendrons and 

 hardy azaleas. They 

 seem intended to be 

 grouped together and 

 are usually employed 

 in that way. The azalea 

 is, in evei'v way, smaller 

 than the rhododendron, 

 and when planted on the outskirts of a group of the latter, 

 shade off harmoniously the outline of a mass of the former. 



RHODODENDRON. 



