flowers were nearly two inches across, growing in 

 clusters. The plants were quite as large as my 

 long-established Deutzia gracillis. The branches 

 of this new Spiraea arch charmingly. I am so 

 pleased with it. The Hypericum patulum henryi 

 is a new and hardy St. John's Wort. (It doesn't 

 seem right that anything so beautiful should have 

 such a horrid name.) 



This St. John's Wort is about three feet tall 

 and almost as wide, and just now it is a mass of 

 the clearest golden yellow blossoms you can im- 

 agine, and it has so many promising buds that I 

 know the end of August will see these new St. 

 John's Worts still in flower. The Philadelphus 

 incanus, with its strangely woolly and interest- 

 ing foliage, has not kept quite apace with the 

 other Wilson treasures, although there was a fair 

 showing of blooms through late June and early 

 July. It is too early now to say anything about 

 the extraordinary Autumn coloring promised for 

 Lonicera maackii, but I must admit I have never 

 before seen small robust plants grow so amaz- 

 ingly. I am quite ready to believe this particular 

 Lonicera is all Mr. Wilson claims for it: "That 

 it is when mature one of the most magnificent, 

 one of the most extraordinarily beautiful shrubs 

 in cultivation." The Cotoneaster salicifolia is also 



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