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which might be planted in a moderate-sized garden with an 

 adjoining park or meadow where the soil is of an ordinary loamy 

 nature. Among the deciduous kind?, taken alphabetically, we 

 have tli3 Horse-chestnut, such a well-known tree that I need 

 only allude to the double-flowering variety, which as a garden 

 tree, seeing that the single is so abundant, is perhaps preferable. 

 It is more showy in flower, the flower spike being more massive and 

 whiter, lasts in beauty longer, and does not produce fruit, which 

 in a public park or garden is a consideration. Msculus rubicunda, 

 from North America, is one of our best trees of moderate growth, 

 the flowers being very rich in colour, the finest variety, which 

 should always be selected if possible, being cf a deep rose-pink 

 with yellow 7 blotches ; and a new Continental variety, named 

 Brioti, is said to surpass in depth of colour any variety that has 

 been seen. JE, carnea is similar, but inferior in point of beauty of 

 flower. The Amelanchier, or Snowy Mespilus, is indispensable, 

 the whole tree being a sheet of wdiite bloom in the middle of 

 May. If one only is planted, A.^Botryapium should be selected. 

 It groups well with the Almond (Amygdalus), a favourite with 

 everyone, it being the first harbinger of spring among trees. 

 The macrocarpa variety of the Almond has the largest flow T ers, 

 and the richest in colour is the Crimson Peach, also called in 

 nurseries the double-flowering Peach. The Almonds and Peaches 

 should be planted so as to rise above a mass of low T shrubs, 

 and preferably with a background of evergreen, which relieves 

 their leafless mass of flowers. Passing over the deciduous 

 Berberises, as their autumn fruit is more remarkable than their 

 flowers, w T e come to the Caraganas, a small group of Pea-flowered 

 shrubs, of which it may be desirable to plant a representative, 

 and C. arborcscens should be selected, it being a tall, dense- 

 growing bush, with bright green foliage and yellow flowers. The 

 Cherries (Gerasus) are so numerous that some consideration is 

 needed to select the best. The common double wiiite, G. Avium 

 multiplex, is such a lovely tree that every garden should contain 

 it, as well as G. domestica florc-plcno. A smaller tree is G. ser- 

 rulata or G. Sieboldi, a Chinese tree of very distinct growth, 

 and crowded at this season with w T hite double flowers. Other 

 double Cherries of exquisite beauty are those named G. Water cri 

 and G. Juliana floribus roseis. The Mahaleb Cherry is perhaps 

 too common for a garden, but the weeping variety of it should 



