SHRUBS 



flower work it is as desirable as the Lily of the 

 Valley, which is the only flower I can compare it 

 with in delicate beauty, purity, and sweetness. 



The Persian is very pleasing for front posi- 

 tions, because of its compact, spreading habit, 

 and its slender, graceful manner of branching 

 close to the ground. It is a very free bloomer, 

 and a bush five or six feet high, and as many 

 feet across, will often have hundreds of plume- 

 like tufts of bloom, of a dark purple showing 

 a decided violet tint. 



The double varieties are lovely beyond descrip- 

 tion. At a little distance the difi'erence between 

 the doubles and singles will not be very notice- 

 able, but at close range the beauty of the former 

 will be apparent. Their extra petals give them 

 an airy grace, a feathery lightness, which the 

 shorter-spiked kinds do not have. By all means 

 have a rosy-purple double variety, and a double 

 white. No garden that lives up to its privileges 

 will be without them. If I could have but one 

 shrub, I think my choice would be a white Lilac. 



Another shrub of tall and stately habit is the 

 old Snowball. When well grown, few shrubs can 

 surpass it in beauty. Its great balls of bloom 

 are composed of scores of individually, small 

 flowers, and they are borne in such profusion 



