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should be cut hard back after flowering, and if the 

 young seed-pods can be picked off so much the 

 better. 



Daphne Cneorum. — A bright little shrub best grown 

 on the rock garden ; quite hardy. 



Daphne Laureola. — This has fine foliage and will 

 grow in quite a shady place. 



Daphne Mesereum A beautiful early -flowering 



Daphne, too well known for description. 



Deutzia crenata. — A most useful hardy shrub, grow- 

 ing to a good size. The variety, Pride of Rochester, 

 is very pretty. 



Diervilla {Weigela). — Indispensable shrubs, very 

 hardy, free-flowering, and easily grown. The flower- 

 ing shoots should be cut back to strong young wood 

 as soon as the flowers fade. They are most accom- 

 modating in this respect, as the strongest of the 

 young shoots start well back and not at the points, 

 as is usual with most plants. Good varieties are 

 Eva Rathke, Hortensis nivea, and rosea. 



Escallonia tnacrantha. — A good wall shrub. 



Escallonia philippiana. — Hardier than E. macrantha, 

 and can be grown as a bush in a sheltered spot. 



Forsythia suspensa. — Quite hardy, and very beau- 

 tiful in early spring, as it flowers before the leaf-buds 

 burst. It should be cut back to young growths after 

 the flower is over. 



Garrya elUptica. — Quite hardy as a bush. 



Fuchsia Riccartoni. — This gets cut down every 

 winter, but is never killed, and it flowers abundantly 

 every year treated as a hardy herbaceous plant. 



