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aromatic fruit. Their foliage is bright green and glossy, and retains its color the 

 entire snmmer, which renders the plants very ornamental. Special attention is 

 invited to this plant for ornamental hedges. It is sufficiently thorny to form a 

 defense, and at the same time makes one of the most beautiful flowering hedges. 



* Red Flowering — Has bright scarlet crimson flowers in great profusion in the early 



spring. One of the best hardy shrubs in the catalogue. 

 White Flowering — A very beautiful variety, with delicate white and blush flowers. 

 CF,RCIS JAPONIC A. (See Deciduous Trees.) 

 DAPHNE. 



Mesereum Pink (3 ft.) — Desirable because of blossoming so early, before any other 

 shrub, pink flowers borne in clusters. A very hard}'' shrub of dwarfish habit. 

 Album (4 ft. ) — Same as preceding excepting the flowers are white. 

 DESMODIUM (Tick-trefoil). 



Penduliflorum (Sweet pea shrub, 3 ft.) — The dull time in gardens, where only hardy 

 plants are used, is in late summer, and this plant fills out this great void time of 

 autumn with thousands 011 thousands of its red pea blossoms, in the most luxur- 

 iant profusion. Its annual top shoots up to 3 and 5 feet high, and branches into 

 multitudes of delicate drooping sprays, which become simply masses of red and 

 violet blossoms j always renewed, never ending, till the frost of late October finally 

 cuts the whole top down. Might be classed uuder Herbaceous Shrubs. 



* Candidissima (5 ft. ) — A new white flowering, very 



choice sort. 



*Crenata'fl. pi. (5 ft.) — Flowers double white, tinged 

 with rose ; one of the most desirable flowering 

 shrubs in cultivation. 



* Gracilis (Slender-Branched, 2 ft.) — A species of 



dwarf habit; 'flows pure white; fine for pot 

 culture, as it flowers freely in a low temperature in 

 winter. 



* Pride of Rochester (5 ft.) Flowers double ; out- 



side petals tinged with pink, inside white. All the 

 Deutzias are particularly handsome and showy in 

 bloom. 



E^EAGNUS lyONGIPES (Japanese Silver Thorn, 



5 ft.) — A handsome, shapely, silver-leaved shrub, 



with ornamental reddish brown bark in winter ; 



perfectly hardy and easy to grow. The bright 



yellow flowers appear in June on long stalks, 



but the greatest value of the shrub is in the fruit, 



which is produced in the greatest abundance along 



the whole length of the branches, oval in shape 



and about one-half inch long ; color deep orange 



red, very showy and attractive. One of the most 



valuable berry-bearing shrubs. 

 EXOCHORDIA. 



Grandiflora (6 ft.) - From Northern China. It is a vigorous growing shrub, form- 

 ing a neat compact bush ten to twelve feet high ; can be trimmed into any desired 

 shape. Flowers pure white, born in slender racemes. 

 FORSYTHIA (Golden Bell).— Known for its great beauty in early spring. Bright 

 golden yellow flowers in April, just as soon as winter is over. 



Portuni (5 ft,)— This makes long pendant shoots, being extremely pretty when its 

 arched branches are full of golden yellow flowers. 



Intermedia — -A new very recently introduced variety of much promise. 



" Suspensa (6 ft.) — In general character this is much like the preceding one, but of 

 larger and more spreading growth. In good soil and where this has room to 

 develop it will make in time a magnificent specimen, eight or ten feet broad. 



* Viridissima (5 ft.)— This is the one most often found in cultivation. It is of 



stiff er, more bushlike growth than the others. The flowers are a shade lighter 

 yellow and they open a few days later. 



