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Sweet-scented Shrub • Calycanthus 
Floridus 
As the allspice of our grandmother's gar- 
den, this old-fashioned shrub was a great 
favorite. It grows well almost anywhere 
and thrives alike in shade or open. The 
aromatic fragrance is especially plca.sing 
Chocolate-colored flowers. 
Pepper Bush • Clethra Alnifolia 
Sweet Pepper. A sturdy and compact 
shrub of dense growth, producing slender 
spikes of fragrant white flowers in mid- 
summer. It blooms abundantly at a time 
when little else is in blossom. 
JORSYTHIA SUSPENSA (SEE PAGE 34) 
DEUTZIA GRACILIS 
Japanese Rose • Kerria 
Globe Flower (K. Japonica). A shrub 
from Japan, with bright green leaves, shading, 
in autumn, to tones of yellow; flowers numer- 
ous, bright yellow, in bloom from June to Oct. 
Flowering Currant • Ribes 
Yellow-flowering (R. aureum). This is 
prized for its wealth of fragrant flowers in early 
spring and for its hardiness. Blooms in May; 
showy yellow blooms. Bright autumn foliage. 
Crimson-flowering (R. sanguineum). Of 
the same general erect-growing habit; leaves 
resembling those of the common currant. Pro- 
fusely covered with rose-colored flowers early 
in spring. 
Deutzia 
Double White-flowering (D. candidis- 
sima). Profuse-flowering; generally hardy, 
and well adapted to ordinary soils. Double 
pure white flowers, borne in panicles. 
Double-flowering (D. crenata). Flowers 
white, tinged with rose; blooms middle of June. 
Lemoine's (D. Lemoinci). Spreading 
branches, leaves light green, and snow-white 
flowers. Very \'igorous and productive. 
Slender-branched (D. gracilis). Flowers 
white; graceful; leaves bright green. 
Pearl Bush • Exochorda 
Grandiflora. A hardy flowering shrub of 
great merit. The branches are slender, the 
leaves small, and it has very fragrant clusters 
of star-shaped flowers. It will attain a height 
of from TO to 12 feet and can be trimmed to 
any desired form. 
