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JOURNAL OF THE EOYAL HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
S. Pallasii has fine dark crimson flowers in flat umbels. The sweet Dutch 
Honeysuckle now blossoms and forms a good bush. The Ceanotbus 
tribe have been so generally treated as wall climbers that few are aware 
how fine they are as shrubs, though not always hardy. If the stools are 
covered with ashes (like Fuchsias) they are grand, as witness the beds at 
Kew. Gloire de Versailles is as yet the best : its soft sky-blue flowers are 
freely produced. Ceres, a blush rose form, is good ; while Asteroide is a 
deep gentian blue ; Virginalis, a white form, is also good. The species 
divaricatus, Veitchii, dentatus, and rigid us are best on walls. Among 
July plants Olearia stellulata (Gunni) is very charming : its white flowers 
completely hide the foliage, and it continues in blossom a long time. 
In August we get the first show of autumnal beauty, and this list is 
worth the notice of those who have to cater for shooting parties, as cut 
flowers are in great demand, and such subjects as Spiraea Fontenaysii 
(white), Eeevesii (pale rose), Nobleana, with its grand branching panicles ; 
Billardi, the brightest of the spiky sorts ; and Douglasii, the richest, are 
most useful. Cytisus elegans, a coronilla-like plant, is handsome. 
In shrubby St. John's Worts the compact Hypericum aureum, the 
rather rare H. chinense, most elegant of the dwarf species ; oblongifolium 
and patulum ; the neat H. prolificum, Kalmianum, Nepalense, are all 
fine golden flowering sub-shrubs, and continue in blossom for months. 
The St. John's Wort H. calycinum and its more beautiful relative 
H. Moserianum are among the best creeping plants, their lovely flowers 
being very conspicuous : they group well with the Vincas or Periwinkles. 
The Cobweb tree is a lovely shrub (Rhus cotinus) for massing or single 
specimens ; the variety atropurpurea is of a darker hue, and the foliage of 
both is grand, as it changes in the autumn. Buddlea variabilis and 
B. Lindleyi are very distinct from globosa, and have panicles of lavender 
and purple flowers. Genista iEtnensis now comes with yellow flowers, and 
the rush-leaved Broom (Spartium junceum) is one of the finest shrubs we 
have. The Hydrangeas now show up ; H. hortensis, the white Dr. 
Hogg, and the species Paniculata grandiflora are indispensable. Diplo- 
pappus chrysophyllus, with its numerous white flowers and golden 
foliage, is a fine sea-side plant. Many of the June and July plants con- 
tinue in flower, as Colutea melanocalyx and C. arborescens, interesting for 
their seed pods. The Orchid-like Pavia macrostachya is a lovely large 
shrub, and is best kept down by cutting, or one loses sight of its 
beautiful flowers. It is known as the Buck-eye, and is allied to the Horse 
Chestnuts. 
Throughout September we do not get many fresh subjects to remark 
tipon, the blossoms being mostly a repetition of August flowers, except the 
following : — The tree Hollyhocks (Hibiscus syriacus), better known as 
Althaea frutex, can now be had in so many colours that every garden 
should contain a set. There is the double purple, double red, double 
white with crimson eye ; but the finest are the single ones : totus albus, 
fine silvery white ; and rubra grandiflora, purple and white with a dark 
blotch at the base. 
Veronica Traversii, with its pale lilac flowers, forms a conspicuous 
bush ; and the blue and magenta shrubby kinds, though not hardy inland, 
are fine sea-side plants. In August and September the Yuccas make a 
