SHRUBS 



feet and is therefore well adapted to places in 

 the back row, or in the rear of the garden. Its 

 flowers, which are borne in great profusion, are 

 a creamy white, and very sweet-scented. 



The double-flowered Plum is a most lovely 

 shrub. It blooms early in spring, before its 

 leaves are out. Its flowers are very double, and 

 of a delicate pink, and are produced in such pro- 

 fusion that the entire plant seems under a pink 

 cloud. 



Another early bloomer, somewhat similar to 

 the Plum, is the Flowering Almond, an old 

 favorite. This, however, is of slender habit, and 

 should be given a place in the front row. Its 

 lovely pink-and-white flowers are borne all along 

 the gracefully arching stalks, making them look 

 like wreaths of bloom that Nature had not fin- 

 ished by fastening them together in chaplet form. 



It is not to be understood that the list given 

 above includes all the desirable varieties of shrubs 

 suited to amateur culture. It does, however, in- 

 clude the cream of the list for general-purpose 

 gardening. There are many other kinds that 

 are well worth a place in any garden, but some 

 of them are inclined to be rather too tender for 

 use at the north, without protection, and others 

 require a treatment which they will not be likely 

 to get from the amateur gardener, therefore I 



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