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is Water Elder. Its merit as a garden shrub does not 

 lie, as in the Guelder Rose, in its bloom, but in its 

 singularly beautiful fruit. This, in autumn, lights 

 up the whole shrub with a ruddy radiance. Grown 

 on drier ground than that of its natural habitat, it 

 takes a closer, more compact form. 



White Broom is in flower from the middle of May 

 to the second week of June. There is a fine Flag Iris 

 of a rich purple colour called " Purple King." It is 

 well to grow it just in front of some yoimg bushes of 

 White Broom. Then, if one of the hybrid Irises of 

 pale lilac colour is there as well, and a bush of Rosa 

 altaica, the colour-effect will be surprisingly beautiful. 

 This Rose is the bolder-growing, Asiatic equivalent 

 of our Burnet Rose [R. sfinosissima) , with the same 

 lemon-white flowers. When any such group contain- 

 ing White Broom is planted, it should be remembered 

 that the tendency of the Broom is to grow tall and 

 leggy. It bears pruning, but it is a good plan to 

 plant some extra ones behind the others. After a 

 couple of years, if the front plants have grown out of 

 bounds, the back ones can be bent down and fastened 

 to sticks, so that their heads come in the required 

 places. It is one of the many ways in which a pretty 

 garden picture may be maintained from year to year 

 by the exercise of a little thought and ingenuity. The 

 undergrowth of such a group may be of Solomon's 

 Seal at the back, and, if the bank or border is in sun, 

 of a lower groundwork of Iberis and Corydalis ochro- 

 leuca, or, if it is shaded, of Tiarella, Woodruff or 

 Anemone sylvestris. With these, for the sake of their 



