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should be allowed to grow unchecked until the autumn 
when they should be removed and planted in nursery 
lines in the kitchen garden to acquire strength. In the 
case of choice varieties it will be necessary to ascertain 
whether the plants have been grafted, and thus avoid 
the vexation of devoting time and attention to the prepara- 
tion of a stock that may be one of the common instead 
of a superior form. The common is frequently used as 
a stock, and when that is the case the suckers should 
be at once rejected. Cuttings of the ripened wood 
taken as soon as the shrubs are leafless and inserted in 
an outside border will root freely. 
Lilacs produce a beautiful effect when arranged singly 
or in groups of three or more on the lawn and in the 
shrubbery and along the margins of plantations. The 
most desirable of the lilacs for general cultivation are : 
Syringa rothomagensis (Rouen or Varin Lilac) an extremely 
elegant hybrid ranging from six to eight feet high 
and bearing large panicles of rose-lilac flowers. Alba 
with French-white flowers and Rubra with rose-red 
flowers are both desirable and excellent varieties, and 
the following varieties of S. vulgaris. Single Alba 
grandiflora and Marie Legrange two beautiful white 
forms. Charles X., Dr Lindley, Fiirst Lichtenstein and 
Ville de Troyes, shades of rose-red. Dr Von Regel, Gloire 
de Lorraine and Gloire de Moulins shades of lilac, and 
Souvenir de Leon Spadth rich crimson-purple. Double 
Madame Abel Chateney and Madame Lemoine, pure white. 
Charles John, red-purple, Comtesse Horace de Choiseul, \ight- 
blue lilac, Emilie Lemoine, rose-lilac, Jean Bart, rose- 
carmine, La Tour d’ Auvergne, violet-purple, and Michel 
Buchuer, pale lilac. 
Visurnums.—The species of viburnums are numerous 
and the greater proportion are more or less attractive 
and worthy of attention where a large area is available 
for hardy shrubs, but for planting generally and where 
