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size. One of the largest of spirjeis is -S. opulifolia. 
This is strong-growing and becomes a tall, upright 
shrub with large light green foliage, something like 
that of the snowball and clusters of large white 
flowers in June. Its common name is wine bark 
and it grows wild on the cliffs of the river here. 
After blooming the carpels or seed vessels are con- 
spicuous and very ornamental turning reddish or 
wine color on the stems. 
S. opulifolia aurea is the golden-leaved spirma, 
and should be planted in the sun if it is to be effec- 
tive. The young, light orange colored leaflets are 
very pretty when they first expand in the spring. 
As the season advances the foliage becomes duller 
in hue and it planted in the shade, reverts to green. 
This spiraea is largely planted by those who like 
golden-leaved effects. We have what we call the 
golded shrubbery composed of these spiraeas, gol- 
den-leaved Philadelphus, golden-leaved elders and 
for contrast, some purple-leaved plums, birches and 
hazles. This shrubbery was an experiment which 
I will describe at another time. 
To return to the spiraeas. S. discolor, variety 
ariaefolia, also called spray bush, is one of the most 
beautiful of its family, and is distinct from all that 
I have described. It will grow ten feet high in rich, 
moist soil, and should have a conspicuous place 
where it can get the sun and have plenty of room 
to develop. It has a distinct grace and beauty of 
its own and has large feathery panicles of bloom 
that are greenish white and fragrant. These are 
very freely produced and give it an airy effect hard 
to describe. This should be in every collection. 
It blooms towards the end of June. 
Other June bloomers are S. Billardii and S. 
Blumei. These have spikes of pink blossoms with 
long stamens and continue in flower a long time. 
S. Billardii is of larger growth than S. Blumei and 
has longer and stiffer spikes of flowers. They are 
useful for variety and to keep up the procession of 
bloom. 
Spiraea trilobata has very pretty foliage and is 
of low spreading growth and is valuable to plant on 
the margin of the shrubbery as it droops gracefully 
to the ground. It has white flowers in June. The 
three lobed leaves are prettily crenate or scalloped, 
and it is more useful for foliage than for flower. 
Spiraea sorbifolia has pinnate foliage like that 
of the Mountain Ash, and large plumes of cream 
colored flowers in June. It is of rampant growth, 
suckers freely and must be watched to keep it 
within bounds. It likes a moist situation. 
Much finer is Spiraea Lindleyana which has the 
same character of flowers and foliage but is more 
refined in appearance and is useful in sub-tropical 
planting with its picturesque primate leaves. It 
needs plenty of moisture and is one of the choicest 
of spiraeas. It does not do well here and dies down 
to the roots in cold winters. The hot dry summers 
keep it from flowering well. 
A pretty little group for the margin of a shrub- 
bery or for a flower border is composed of spiraea 
callosa alba, a small shrub always in bloom from 
June to severe frost, spiraea Bumalda and spiraea 
callosa crispifolia. S. Bumalda is a little smaller 
than S. callosa alba and has beautiful heads of 
bright pink flowers. S. callosa crispifolia is the 
smallest of all shrubby spiraeas and is a little gem. 
It is of rounded form and has curled, crisped 
leaves that are very pretty and, odd and it is a pro- 
fuse bloomer. It has heads of small pink flowers 
all summer. 
A conspicuous place in the flower border should 
be accorded Spiraea Anthony Waterer which is 
a spiraea of medium growth and very valuable for 
its succession of rich pink heads of flowers. It is 
well known and much used by florists for forcing. 
To succeed with it requires careful cultivation and 
free use of the garden shears, as all the faded bloom 
must be clipped away to encourage fresh flowering. 
Spiraea callosa Fortune! is of medium growth 
and has beautiful flowers in July as rich in color as 
those of S. Anthony Waterer. This is one of the 
best of the late flowering spiraeas and is sometimes 
called superba. 
We have many more species and varieties of 
spiraea, but I have described the most conspicuous 
of them, and have said enough I hope, to prove 
their great value in all colleetions of shrubs. They 
should not be crowded, nor, as a rule, planted in 
dense shade. 
Many of them, however, prefer partial shade 
and all of them like to have wet feet. They are par- 
ticularly adapted to margins of ponds and running 
streams. 
I will at some future time, devote a chapter to 
the herbaceous varieties of spiraea. 
Danske Dandridge. 
“ A garden is a place arranged for promenades and at tlie same time for the recreation 
of the eyes. But it is also an accessory to the house, serving it as an accompaniment, an 
environment; and, within certain limits, it is simply another apartment, an anne.x of the 
house. Therefore, how can the art which built and adorned the dwelling be refused the 
right to interfere in this exterior house?” — Vitet. 
