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tive purple flowers. It is also valuable because it will 

 thrive in any soil or exposure. 



The dogwoods have perhaps no distinctive summer 

 quality, but they are so fine both in wood and leafage 

 throughout the year that I should invariably include them 

 among an assemblage of summer lawn plants. 



One of the most effective of our large shrubs in summer 

 is the Colutea, or bladder senna, in its several varieties. 

 An acacia-like foliage and great compactness and vigor 

 give it special value for combination in shrub grouj)s, but 



its yellow or }'ell() wish-red 

 pea-blossom-like flo^vers in 

 June and July, followed by 

 reddish pods or bladders, 

 are also valuable features 

 for the summer lawn. 



The Amorpha, though 

 more spreading, is somewhat 

 allied to the Colutea in ap- 

 pearance, and bears quanti- 

 ties of small purplish flf)wers 

 in dense terminal flattish 

 clusters during early summer. 

 For the outskirts of 

 groups, where low-growing 

 shrubs are particularly de- 

 sirable, the glossy leaves 

 and rounded contours of the 

 Qleihra alnifolia work in very successfully with the added 

 beauty of protruding spikes of sweet-scented white mid- 



SWEET PEPPER-BUSH. 

 (CLETHRA ALNIFOUA.) 



