FLOWERING SHRUBS 
HaARDHACK—ROSE-COLORED SPIRAEA—Spiraa tomentosa (L.). 
Of the several pretty shrubs belonging to the Genus 
Spirea which have been introduced into cultivation, none 
deserves a place in our gardens more decidedly than the 
above. It is a beautiful shrub, growing in wild profusion 
in swamps and on the rocky shores of our small inland 
lakes. It is about four feet high, with slender wand-like 
stems that rise from a woody rootstock, clothed with dark 
green serrated leathery leaves, which are smooth above but 
very downy underneath. The flowers are of a fine rose-pink, 
in closely-flowered panicles, a little branching in the larger 
heads. The bark of the stem is red and covered with down. 
While this elegant shrub is chiefly found near water, it 
seems to prefer gravelly or rocky soil for its habitation. 
PURPLE SCENTED RASPBERRY—Rubus odoratus (L.). 
(PLATE. XVIL) 
In English gardens our beautiful Sweet-scented Raspberry 
is deemed worthy of a place in the shrubberies, but in its 
native country it is passed by and regarded as of little 
worth. Yet what can be more lovely than its rose-shaped 
blossoms, from the deep purplish-crimson bud, wrapped in 
its odorous mossy calyx, to the unfolded flower of various 
shades of deep rose and paler reddish lilac. The flowers 
derive their pleasant aromatic odor from the closely-set 
coating of short bristly glandular hairs, each one of which 
is tipped with a gland of reddish hue containing a sweet- 
scented gum, as in the mossy envelope of the Moss-rose 
of the garden. These appendages, seen by the aid of a 
powerful microscope, are objects of exquisite beauty, more 
admirable than rubies and diamonds, living gems that fill 
us with wonder while we gaze into their marvellous parts 
and glorious colors. 
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