FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 79 
as the foregoing, with the addition of blood red 
stamens. 
Ribes.—F lowering Currant. Too well-known to need 
description. In addition to the common variety R. san- 
guinea, the Buffalo Currant (R. aureum), with yellow 
flowers, and the double form flre-pleno, which blooms 
later than the type, should also be grown. 
Syringa.—Lilac. Grouped in bold masses, the Lilac 
family is a charming one in the garden. A sheltered 
corner devoted to a representative collection, or a good 
hedge formed of several varieties, is the way in which 
they should be grown. A straggling bush, hemmed in 
by coarse evergreens, is a poor way of displaying so 
charming a flower. The following are worthy of notice: 
S. chinensis, with rich violet flowers; S. japonica, with 
large creamy-coloured flowers; and S. persica, the 
Persian Lilac, a much smaller kind, which looks well 
planted in the foreground of large groups. The flowers 
are pale mauve. ‘The white variety, Marie Legrange, is 
very handsome. 
Choisya Ternata.—Mexican Orange-flower. Not quite 
hardy, but worth a sheltered position, on account of its 
shining evergreen foliage and abundance of pure white 
flowers. It is a good plant for warm seaside districts. 
Cotoneaster.—Rockspray. Hardy and easily grown 
rock-shrubs. C. duxifolia forms a good-sized bush, the 
flowers white, and produced abundantly. C. microphylla 
is useful for walls or sloping banks in the rock garden, 
where there is a bare space which needs covering. The 
Cotoneasters are evergreen, and in winter are rendered 
bright and showy by clusters of scarlet or crimson 
berries. 
Forsythia.—Golden Bell. Dwarf-growing subjects, of 
exceedingly graceful habit. F. suspensa is the best 
known, and the long trailing branches, covered with 
golden blossoms, look especially well hanging over a 
