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Purple-leaved Berberry ( Berberis vulgaris 
var. purpurea .) It grows about five feet 
high. The foliage is a deep purple during 
the whole season of growth, and it is conse- 
quently always a beautiful plant. It is 
handsome singly or in a small group. Like 
the Berberries, the flowers are yellow. 
The sweet little Daphne Mezereum is an 
old but somewhat neglected plant. Some 
complain that it is not easy to grow: but it 
will grow well enough if properly placed. 
It certainly will not do well if planted 
The White Pike. Fig. 174. 
against the south wall of a house, where it 
is often found; but it will thrive on almost 
any other side of the house if furnished with 
good soil to grow in. There is always a 
place for it, however, on the north side 
of a shrubbery border, where it will get a 
little shade. It bears clusters of pretty pink 
flowers, which appear very early in the 
spring. 
Daphne C neoruin , or Garland Flower, is a 
very handsome evergreen shrub that de- 
serves a place in every garden. It is a pro- 
cumbent or trailing plant, and will in time 
cover a space four or five feet in diameter. 
\ place can often be found for it on the 
lawn, preferably on the north side of the 
dwelling, but not too near to it. It may 
also be grown in the border, and its trailing 
habit makes it an excellent plant for rock- 
work. Its bright pink flowers are produced 
in profusion in terminal clusters, and are 
deliciously fragrant. 
There are few more beautiful objects for 
the lawn than some of the double-flowering 
Cherries. They yield no fruit, to be sure, but 
that obviates one objection to their use on 
the lawn, on the score of “litter.” Cerasus 
avium var. alba plena, or Large Double- 
Flowering Cherry, is a double-flowering 
variety of the common Bigarreau Cherry. 
The flowers are very double, and cover the 
tree so completely as to make it appear one 
mass of bloom. The tree grows to the size 
of the common cherry. 
Cerasus Japonica var. rosea pendula is a 
very beautiful pendulous Cherry from Ja- 
pan. There is something very attractive in 
the drooping habit of this small tree. The 
pretty rose-colored flowers are single, and 
appear early. 
The Catalpa is prized by many because it 
flowers at a time when flowers on trees are 
rare. It is a clean, open headed, somewhat 
spreading tree with handsome leaves of 
large size, and altogether is quite distinct 
in appearance. A common name for this 
tree is Smoking Bean, among boys at 
least, who sometimes smoke the lialf-ripe 
capsules or seed vessels, which often reach 
a foot in length. Catalpa bignonioides is 
the species commonly grown. It is a na- 
tive of the South, but quite hardy here. The 
leaves are heart-shaped aud large, many of 
them being a foot long. The tree blooms 
in July. The flowers are white with yel- 
low and purple spots, and in form resemble 
those of the Bignonia. They are produced 
in large upright panicles, and are fragrant. 
This tree is also known as C. syringcefolia. 
A variety, called speciosa, which originated 
at the West, is thought to be hardier than 
the preceding. It is rather more symmet- 
rical in form, and blooms about two weeks 
earlier. 
Rhus glabra var. laciniata, the Cut-leaved 
Sumach, is a variety of a native species. It 
is a beautiful ornamental plant, its deeply 
cut leaves giving it the appearance of a 
large Fern, as may be seen in the accom- 
panying illustration (Fig. 215), which is an 
excellent portrait of the plant. It is seen at 
its best in the autumn, however, when the 
leaves turn to a deep red. It grows from 
five to ten feet high when established, and 
does best in a sandy or rather poor soil. It 
Rhus glabra laciniata. Ftg. 104. 
seems about equally at home in either the 
blazing sun or a little shade. 
A good companion for the above is Rhus 
Osbeckii. We seldom plant one without 
the other. It is a native of China, larger 
than the preceding, and has very handsome 
ornamental foliage, which is highly attrac- 
tive when it takes on its autumn hue. 
Another, but much better known Sumach 
is Rhus Cotinus, sometimes called Venetian 
Sumach, but more commonly Smoke Tree 
or Mist Tree. This is one of the best abused 
trees grown. It is usually treated as a shrub, 
and crowded in the shrubbery, where it has 
no chance to develop its natural beauty, and 
it becomes a scraggy, snarly, unsightly 
thing. Placed where it can develop its na- 
tive beauty, it grows into a symmetrical 
round-headed tree fifteen feet or more 
high. As usually received from the nur- 
sery it needs to be pruned up to a naked 
stem about five feet high. This is a very 
clean tree, remarkable for its long, feathery 
fruit stalks, which are so numerous as to 
make the tree seem, at a distance, as if en- 
veloped in smoke or mist. The effect is 
very beautiful. 
All the Deutziasare valuable lawn plants, 
the double va- 
rieties being 
particularly de- 
sirable to cut 
for Decoration 
Day, being very 
enduring. Deut- 
zia crenata var. 
flore alba plena 
bears pure 
white double 
flowers. D. cre- 
nata fl. pi. bears 
double white 
flowers tinged 
with rose. D. 
crenata var. 
Pride of Ro- 
chester bears 
double white 
flowers with DECTZIA crenata fl. pl. Fig. 928. 
the under side of the petals tinged with 
rose. All the single kinds bear handsome 
white flowers in abundance. They are all 
tall shrubs except D. gracilis, which grows 
only two or three feet high, but blooms 
profusely. It is the earliest to bloom, and 
is often forced in winter. The Deutzias 
bloom in June and July. 
Xanthoceras sorbifolia is a quite recent in- 
troduction from China, and is proviug it- 
self to be a valuable acquisition. It is a 
large shrub or small tree with handsome 
pinnate foliage, and this gives it a distinct 
and somewhat tropical appearance. The 
flowers, which are produced in racemes, are 
white with a reddish tint at the base. The 
bloom is very abundant, and appears early 
in spring. The plant has the characteristic 
of showing some bloom when quite small. 
Until plants of some size can be had, they 
should be planted in the spring. 
Viburnum plicatum, the most recently in- 
troduced of its family, is the finest of them 
all. Its plicated foliage makes it a hand- 
some object at all times. Its flowers are a 
purer white, and the form and habit of the 
plant every way better, than the old Gueld- 
er Rose. It should have a conspicuous 
place on the lawn. — P. B. Mead. 
