34 
A. C. GRIESA & BRO., LAWRENCE, KANSAS. 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 
The Care of Shrubbery. Straggling growers should be repeatedly pinched back 
or clipped during the growing season, to produce a close, compact form. Weigelas 
and Deutzias should be pruned like currants, 
leaving the strong young wood to flower. 
Althieas and some of the Spiraeas, which 
bloom on the new shoots, may be pruned 
back each year to the old wood. A very 
beautiful hedge can be made by interming- 
ling different flowering shrubs, and clipping 
or allowing them to grow naturally. 
ALTH.$A, or Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus). 
These are especially valuable because of 
their flowering in the fall, when nearly 
all other shrubs are out of bloom ; en- 
tirely hardy and easy of cultivation. 
Double Purple {H. purpurea). Double ; 
reddish purple ; fine. 
Totus albus. Double white, with pink 
center. 
Variegated-leaved Double Purple. A very 
showy, distinct kind ; leaves variegated 
with light yellow; flowers double purple. 
ALMOND, Dwarf Double Rose-flowering 
(Amygdalus). A beautiful shrub, with 
small, double, ro.sy blossoms, closely set 
upon the twigs before the leaves appear. 
Dwarf Double White-flowering [A. pumila 
alba). 
CALYCANTHUS, Sweet-scented Shrub or 
Allspice. An interesting shrub, having 
a rare and peculiar fragrance of wood and flowers ; its blooms are abundant, and 
of peculiar chocolate color. 
DEUTZIA, Slender-branched {D. gracilis). A charming species, introduced from 
Japan by Dr. Siebold ; flowers pure white. Fine for pot culture, as it flowers 
freely at a low temperature in winter. 
Double Purple Altbsea. 
Slender-branched Deutzia. 
Slirtibbery around a House is a Perennial Joy. 
