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absence of tender (or bedding) plants for ornament. No flower garden 
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plants, many of them native N. American species, supply colour among 
the shrubberies. The fine specimens of Japanese flowering shrubs have 
been selected for definite spots, and arranged, after careful study, for 
artistic effect. Some of the most beautiful pictures, however, have been 
produced by native shrubs and trees which are to be found in the im- 
mediate neighbourhood. My first visit to Holm Lea was on June 28th, 
and, except where otherwise stated, the plants mentioned below were 
noted about that date. As a rule, deciduous flowering trees and shrubs 
grow with infinitely greater freedom here than in Britain; so great is 
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England sometimes find it difficult to recognise species with which they 
are perfectly familiar in this country. Syringa japonica, a Japanese 
ees is apparently a finer tree or shrub in the eme United 
States than in its native habitats; at Holm Lea the finest specimen 
was about 18 feet high, and bore immense inician of small cream 
white i owes, which contrasted finely with the large dark green leaves. 
In this country there are no plants so large as the one above mentioned, 
and it is yet too early to form a definite judgment of the value of the 
species as an ornament to our gardens 
beris Thunbergi is a very handsome low shrub, and is remarkable 
for the beauty of its fruits, which are produced in great profusion, and 
for the splendid colour—rich orange-red or crimson—assumed by the 
decaying leaves in autum 
Lonicera tatarica and ite varieties at the end of June are conspicuous 
on aecount of their innumerable small fruits, yellow or bright red. 
SoNg from = quantity of berries, the bushes must have presented a 
e sight in flower. 
EP nicera Paprotka nd, an Asiatic species, is, however, the most 
handsome of the bush honeysuckles when maae with sariek fruit ; the 
flowers are yellowish, and not particularly s 
ricum aureum, a native of the South- ‘Sane United States, was 
discovered more than a c century ago by the younger Bartram, but was 
practically unknown’ in TA until distributed from the Arnold 
Arboretum a few years ago. rgest specimen I have ever seen is 
Holm Lea; it measures “about 5 feet in — and is about 6 feet 
through. The orange-yellow flowers (with golden coloured stamens) 
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measure from 1 to 2 Samui across ; there are few dwarf shrubs better 
sentative of the genus C. Metall, a ‘still finer specie, refuses 
altogether to grow at Boston; it does, however, in Britain, and it is 
hoped that it will iier: if so, it will prove of great value as an 
ornamental tree. 
Cladrastis amurensis, from Amurland, a fne specimen about 25 feet 
high, the largest I have ever seen, was just c ming into flower. This 
species is far inferior in beauty to the only Wis species of the genus 
(€. tinctoria), one o P p rarest trees of the North American forests, 
as it only grows in a few isolated localities from Middle TM and 
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