THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS. 

 At no period of the year are gardens and pleasure grounds more delightful than 

 when the most attractive flowering trees and shrubs are laden with their charming 

 blossom, in a delicate setting of tender green. More attention is being given than 



formerly, to hardy flower- 



if 



iug deciduous trees and 

 shrubs, that render home 

 surroundings so beautiful 

 in the spring, and not only 

 are old favourites being 

 planted more freely, but 

 newer kinds and varieties 

 are sought for and obtained. 

 Instead of planting so many 

 uninteresting laurels, also 

 cheap and common coni- 

 fers, so heavy and formal, 

 let us have more elegance 

 and freedom by a due pro- 

 portion of diverse kinds, 

 and with such glorious 

 wreaths of flowers, as 

 many trees and shrubs 

 give us in the spring and 

 early summer, there ought 

 to be no hesitation in 

 planting them in gardens 

 large or small. 



Of Deciduous Trees 

 with beautiful flowers so 

 many kinds and varieties confront us as meritorious, that only brief reference can be 

 made to some that ought not to be overlooked. The ordinary horse chestnut, double 

 and single, is too large for small gardens, but the red species (^sculus rubicunda) is of 

 medium growth and beautiful when in flower ; while the richest of all — M. Briotti — is a 



Fig. 66. Halesia teteapteea (The Snowdkop Teee). 



