it has an immense spread and the lower branches 

 rest flat on the ground. The foliage is a silvery, 

 reseda green, fine and small, with never a shabby 

 stage. 



Spiraea van houtteii is good too, massed on 

 a roadside or bank, or planted, as I have seen it, 

 to disguise the stumps of many felled trees — it 

 covered them completely. It is a beautiful shrub, 

 but of course I must admit its base is not beauti- 

 ful, but this defect can be cloaked by Deutzia 

 gracillis, such a feathery, lovely thing, and a 

 pleasing note of blue may be had by tucking into 

 the edge of the holes in which the Gracillis is 

 planted clumps of Periwinkle, whose waxy green 

 lengths will spread over all the bare ground, and 

 when the Spiraea van houtteii and Deutzia 

 gracillis are a cloud of white, these waxy green 

 lengths are a cloud of blue. 



Stepanandra flexuosa and Styrax are won- 

 derful together. Stepanandra's delicately fine foli- 

 age has also given it the name ** Queen's Lace," and 

 it has the excellent quality of remaining lovely 

 until freezing weather. The thread-like sprays 

 of Stepanandra are showering, touching the ground, 



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