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an artist to prune the Forsytbia suspensa. You can 
steal the sunshine for your homes ere winter is gone 
by breaking long sprays of the Sunshine Bush and 
placing them in tall deep jars of water. Split up 
the ends of the stems that they may absorb plen- 
tiful water, and the golden plumes will soon open to 
fullest glory within doors. 
There is another yellow flowered shrub, the Cor- 
chorus, which seems as old as the Lilac, for it is 
ever found in old gardens ; but it proves to be a 
Japanese shrub which we have had only a hundred 
years. The little, deep yellow, globular blossoms 
appear in early spring and sparsely throughout the 
whole summer. The plant isn’t very adorning in its 
usual ragged growth, but it was universally planted. 
It may be seen from the shrubs of popular 
growth which I have named that the present glory 
of our shrubberies is from the Japanese and Chinese 
shrubs, which came to us in the nineteenth century 
through Thunberg, Fortune, and other bold collec- 
tors. We had no shrub-sellers of importance in the 
eighteenth century; the garden lover turned wholly 
to the seedsman and bulb-grower for garden sup- 
pli es, just as we do to-day to fill our old-fashioned 
gardens. The new shrubs and plants from China 
and Japan did not clash with the old garden flowers, 
they seemed like kinsfolk who had long been sepa- 
rated and rejoiced in being reunited ; they were 
indeed fellow-countrymen. We owed scores of our 
older flowers to the Orient, among them such 
important ones as the Lilac, Rose, Lily, Tulip, 
Crown Imperial. 
