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selection of species, we subjoin the accompanying list of 
hardy and showy shrubs, which are at the same time easily 
procured in the United States. A great number of addi- 
tional species and varieties, and many more rare, might be 
enumerated, but such will be sufficiently familiar to the 
connoisseur already ; and what we have said respecting 
botanical rarities in flowering plants may be applied with 
equal force to shrubs, viz. that in order to produce a bril- 
liant effect, a few well chosen species, often repeated, are 
more effective than a great and ill-assorted melange. 
In the following list, the shrubs are divided into two 
classes — No. 1 designating those of medium size, or low 
growth , and No. 2, those which are of the largest size. 
Flowering in April. 
1. Daphne mezereum , the Pink Mezereum, D. M. album, the white 
Mezereum. 
2. Shepherdia argentea, the Buffalo berry ; yellow. 
1. Xanthorhiza apiifolia, the parsley-leaved Yellow-root ; brown. 
1. Cydonia japonica, the Japan Quince ; scarlet. 
1. Cydonia japonica alba, the Japan Quince ; white. 
2. Amelanchier Botryapium, the snowy Medlar. 
1. Ribes aureum, the Missouri Currant ; yellow. 
1. Coronilla Emerus, the Scorpion Senna ; yellow. 
2. Magnolia conspicua, the Chinese chandelier Magnolia ; white. 
May. 
2. Crategus oxycantha, the scarlet Hawthorn. 
2. Crategus oxycantha, fl. pleno, the double white Hawthorn. 
2. Chionanthus virginica , the white Fringe tree. 
1. Chionanthus latifolius, the broad-leaved Fringe tree ; white. 
1. Azalea, rrany fine varieties ; red, white, and yellow. 
1. Calycanthus florida, the Sweet-scented-shrub ; brown. 
1. Magnolia purpurea, the Chinese purple Magnolia. 
2. Halesia tetraptera, the silver Bell tree ; white. 
2. Syringa vulgaris, the common white and red Lilacs. 
1. Syringe persica, the Persian Lilac : white and purple. 
