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a profusion of large white flowers in spring. Here it is seventeen feet 

 high and sixty-four feet round. 



MAGNOLIA SOULANGEANA has flowers of a deep purple 

 colour. It flowers later than M. conspicua. 



MAGNOLIA TRIPE TA LA. —The Umbrella tree of Pennsylvania. 

 Flowers white ; leaves grow to large size ; does best in deep moist soil. 



MAGNOLIA HYP OLE UCA, from Japan, has not flowered with 

 me yet. The leaves are over a foot long, of a dark green colour and 

 silvery underneath. 



MAGNOLIA STELLATA.— Also from Japan. Its flowers are 

 snowy white. The flowers of all_the Magnolias are sweetly scented. 



IN DIG 01 ERA GEE A BDIA NA has graceful feathery foliage 

 with pink flowers. It is the most hardy of the tribe. It comes from 

 India. 



ESCALLONIA MONTE VIDENSIS. — A fine evergreen with leaves 

 of a light green colour and pure-white flowers in clusters borne in October. 

 Eight feet high and the same in diameter. Grows luxuriantly here. 



ESCALLONIA PIIILLIPIANA.—k fine deciduous shrub from 

 Yaldivia with rich green leaves slightly serrated ; flowers white, in July. 



ESCALLONIA OB GA N EN SIS . — A beautiful evergreen, from the 

 Organ Mountains, with dark green glossy leaves and pink flowers. Five 

 to seven feet high. 



L YON I A PA NIC ULA TA . — A dwarf deciduous shrub from North 

 America, four feet high, bearing small white drooping flowers in the 

 summer. 



LEMB 0 TR 0 PIS SESSILIFOLIA.—A slender flowering shrub 

 from Southern Europe, with yellow flowers borne in May very profusely. 



CLETHRA ARBOREA. — A handsome evergreen from Madeira 

 producing spikes of white flowers in September. It loses some of its 

 leaves in the frost, but breaks out again in the next summer. 



BUPLEURUM ER UTES CENS. — A spreading evergreen bush 

 with slender wiry shoots. It comes from Spain and flowers in autumn. 



ELM AGNUS ANG U STIEOLIA VA RIE GA TA . — A neat-growing 

 bushy evergreen from South Europe with small green and white leaves ; 

 very hardy. 



ELJEAGNUS FREDERICI. — A most distinct and brilliant varie- 

 gated form, also quite hardy. 



GLEDITS CHI A TRIA CANTHOS. — The Honey Locust of the 

 Southern States of America. A medium-sized tree having fine Fern-like 

 foliage. 



DELHI SGI A CELOSIOIDES VARIEGA TA is a very hand- 

 some, loose-growing, variegated shrub from New South Wales. As a 

 w.ill -climber it is very ornamental. 



VACCINIUM PENNS YL VANICUM. — The leaves turn to a 

 brilliant scarlet in the autumn. 



