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Privet, continued 
Ibota. Ligustrum Ibota. From New York 
northward, especially inland and about 
Boston, this Privet is rapidly taking the 
place of the California Privet because it is 
perfectly hardy. The California Privet 
winter-kills to some extent here in severe 
winters, but as it jumps up 3 feet by mid- 
summer, that fault is forgotten. It is native 
to the coast of Japan and thrives best 
along the cOast here. The Ibota Privet is 
similar to California Privet in rapidity of 
growth, habit and density of foliage. It is, 
however, not quite so dark green in color. 
It holds its foliage with a bright green 
color till late in autumn, while the Cali- 
fornia Privet turns to a bronze-green and 
holds it farther into the winter. We are 
endeavoring to introduce this Privet into 
extensive culture, believing that it is supe- 
rior to the California Privet where a tall 
hedge or mass of shrubbery over 6 feet high 
is wanted with no risk of winter-killing. 
Prostrate. L. Ibota, var. Regelianum. This 
variety has all the good qualities of the 
latter and, in addition, has a very distinct 
habit of growth. The branches arch out- 
ward and down to the ground in graceful 
curves. It is an excellent shrub for border- 
ing groups of taller kinds, usually bare at 
the base. As a hedge plant, it is destined 
to become much admired because of its 
graceful form and ability to keep dense at the 
bottom. It can be left untrimmed and make a 
^hodotypos Ktrrioides ( White Kerria). An excellent 
shrub for general planting, being not unlike the Prostrate 
Privet in its arching growth. It has pure white flowers like 
the Mock Orange, scattered through the summer. The 
illustration shows it at the entrance to the residence of Mr. 
Albert Francke, Lawrence, L. I., showing how excellently 
it fills down to the ground under the Plane tree. 
These Domes of California Prioet are prepared for immediate 
results on a large terrace or in a formal garden or elsewhere. They 
are grown from one plant and have taken several years of skilful 
training to reach their present development. (See page 62.) 
Privet, Prostrate, continued 
handsome, dense hedge 5 feet high and 6 feet 
broad. It will attain those dimensions slightly 
quicker than the Thunberg's Barberry, the two 
being similar in form. 
Media. This is a shrub about 5 feet high, of dense, 
round habit and chiefly notable for the orna- 
mental value of the large black berries. It can 
be used to advantage in shrub planting and we 
offer it at low rates. 
Rhodotypos ° Kerria 
The White Kerria would be as popular as the 
Mock Orange, Weigela and Golden Bells if its 
merits were known. It has large white flowers an 
inch or more across in early summer. The flowers 
closely resemble those of the Mock Orange, Syringa 
cr Philadelphus. It is decorated all winter _ by 
clusters of four shining black berries. In foliage 
and habit it is one of the best hardy shrubs in this 
latitude. It is about 5 feet high and broader in 
growth, being full from the base where its gracefully 
arching branches touch the ground. It is a shrub 
that can be used in quantity in large groups, or a 
single plant will be admired on grounds of small area. 
Siberian Pea-Tree 
( Caragana Arborescens) 
A dainty little tree, slower in growth than the 
Dogwood.' It is thickly hung with canary-yellow, 
pea-shaped blossoms in late spring. 
Smoke Tree • Mist Tree 
Purple Fringe (Rhus Cotinus) 
This differs so widely from all other shrubs that 
a foremost landscape architect declines to use it 
because of its inharmonious relation to other plants. 
Its beauty consists in the downy masses surrounding 
the seeds in mid-summer, and apparently envelop- 
ing the tree in puffs of smoke. 
