FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 81 
foliage during the fall of the leaf. The Venetian 
Sumach (R. cotinus) is one of the best. 
Tamarix.—Tamarisk. Excellent shrubs for seaside 
gardens. The flowers of T. gallica are white, tinged 
with pink, and the small spikes look exceedingly well 
among the feathery leaves. 
Spirea.—Shrubby Meadow Sweet. A large family 
numbering many delightful varieties. It is useless 
crowding these Spireas among a tangle of rampant 
evergreens, as their graceful beauty is lost and they are 
soon destroyed. Well-defined clumps on lawn margins 
show them at their best. 8S. ariefolia, the Spray Bush, 
is very lovely with its panicles of white flowers. S. 
japonica, with clusters of pink flowers borne on slender 
stems, is another good kind; and the improved variety, 
Anthony Waterer, with blossoms of a rich crimson hue, 
is most striking. The Plume Meadow Sweet (S. 
Lindleyana) is a large and handsome kind, which requires 
a fairly warm position, when its beautiful foliage is 
particularly attractive. 
Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora.Plumed Hydrangea. 
During the autumn this is one of the handsomest plants 
in the shrubbery. Under good culture it produces 
enormous clusters of white flowers, the whole bush 
being often covered with a profusion of bloom. 
Kerria Japonica.—There are few cottage gardens 
without a bush of old-fashioned Jew’s Mallow. The 
long shoots are wreathed with small golden blossoms. 
There is a variegated form of the single variety, which 
is dwarfer than the commonly grown flore-plena. 
There is hardly a plant in the above list which is not 
really beautiful, and fully deserving a place in the garden. 
But space cannot be found for even half of them, still 
less for many more which I have not mentioned, if the 
old-fashioned shrubbery is to still monopolise all the 
available ground. By all means let us have a few ever- 
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