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tive leaves, and purple and yellow Flower de Luce. 
A few old-fashioned shrubs always were seen. By 
inflexible law there must be a Lilac, which might 
be the aristocratic Persian Lilac. A Syringa, a flow- 
ering Currant, or Strawberry bush made sweet the 
front yard in spring, and sent wafts of fragrance into 
Peter’s Wreath. 
the house-windows. Spindling, rusty Snowberry 
bushes were by the gate, and Snowballs also, or our 
native Viburnums. Old as they seem, the Spiraeas 
and Deutzias came to us in the nineteenth century 
from Japan; as did the flowering Quinces and 
Cherries. The pink Flowering Almond dates back 
to the oldest front yards (see page 39), and Peter’s 
Wreath certainly seems an old settler and is found 
