72 JUNE EFFECTS ON THE LA WN. 



June flowers like veritable orange blossoms. Philadel- 

 pints cororuwius is the most sweet-scented and in other 

 ways the best variety, although gran- 

 diflorus, laxus, spedosus, etc., are larger 

 and more easily propagated. There 

 is a fine dwarf golden Philadelphus 

 that does not receive the attention it 

 should. 



A well-known June-flowering ge- 

 nus of shrub is the Deutzia, not 

 Dewtzia gracilis only, but Deutzia 

 cr6nata,Jl. pi., a Japan plant, strong- 

 growing, and bear- 

 ing masses of attrac- 

 tive pinkish-white flowers, 

 and also the smaller D. 

 scabra, fl. pi. There 

 are also Deutzias 

 Fortunei, crenata and 



GORDON'S MOCK ORANQE. 



(philadelphus qordonianus.) scabra, both interest- 

 ing, hardy, rapid-growing shrubs. 

 The vigorous bright-green bush 

 honeysuckles are also attractive in 

 June, with the red and white 

 flowers of Tartarica, the As^hite of 

 excellent drooping fragraiitissima^ 

 and the }ellow and yellowish-red of 

 xyhsteum, flexuosa, and LedebmHi. °^"''^'^ crenata, fl. pl. 



The sweet-scented shrubs Galycanthvs jloridiis and 

 O. imvigatus likewise offer the spicy fragrance of their 



