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its flower in hot countries in from fifteen to fifty years, varying 

 according to the climate and the care bestowed on the plant. 



The flower stem is frequently thirty feet high, and the plant 

 dies as soon as it has done flowering. 



The aloe is a native of Mexico and other tropical parts of 

 this continent. 



Flowering Sfrrubz 



The collection of flowering shrubs on the park is of great 

 variety and beauty, a few choice specimens of which are here 

 enumerated. 



The calycanthus floridus, or strawberry hush; a fine shrub, 

 much admired for the sweetness of its flowers and wood, 

 commonly known as alspice tree. There are many of them in 

 the vicinity of the dairy cottage. 



Forsythia fortunii, forsythia suspensa, and forsythia 

 veridissaiua. These three hue shrubs grow splendidly, their 

 bright yellow blossoms being about the first to show in the 

 Spring. 



The spirea reevie, spirea crutagofolia and spirea prumfolia, 

 are very showy shrubs, bearing a profusion of white flowers, 

 that keep in bloom until June and July. The spirea nana, is 

 a dwarf shrub, and commences to bloom when most others 

 are done flowering. 



All the "syringea" are sweet flowering shrubs, notably the 

 old fashioned mock orange and philadelpues, althea frutex, or 

 rose of sharon, are very beautiful, particularly the pheasant 

 eye. a fine double flower with a dark centre, which grow finely 

 on the park. 



The amygdalus pumila, or dwarf flowering almond, andro- 

 meda mariana, amelanchier bortryafurm, amorpha, fruticosa, 

 or indigo shrub, berberis atrapurpurea, or berbery purple and 

 chimonthus virginica, or white fringe, all grow well and bear 

 flowers in profusion. 



The deutzia fortunii, are beautiful white flowering shrubs ; 

 and the deutzia gracilis, when potted, bears forcing in the 



