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exochorda, snowdrop tree, Japanese and Siberian crab 
apple, our American fragrant crab, Pekin and Japan- 
ese tree lilacs, Xanthoceras, j:)terostyrax, cockspur, 
scarlet and other thorns ; white fringe, yellow wood, 
Koelreuteria, Mandschurian aralia, Osbeck's sumach 
and Chinese tamarix. Conspicuous for their fruit arc 
the scarlet haws, mountain ash and euonymus. 
From the crimson mezereon in earliest April to the 
yellow witch hazel in November the whole summer 
is covered by the flowers of shrubs, and from Stand- 
ish’s bush honeysuckle, the first of June, uninterrupt- 
edly through the summer, fall and winter, we have 
shrubs laden with ornamental berries, those of the 
winter berry staying into January, those of Viburnum 
dilatatum into Alarch and those of Thunberg’s barberry 
till the new foliaec of the next spring pushes them off 
the bushes. Prominent among pretty flowering shrubs 
are the golden forsythia, star magnolia, Chinese dou- 
ble plum, tree pa;cnias, sweet shrul), Kerria, Japan 
quince, lilacs’ deutzias, mock orange, rugosa and other 
bush roses, mollis azaleas. Thunberg’s, Van Houtte’s, 
Reeve’s and Bumalda spiraeas, common and plicatuin 
snowballs, weigelias, dwarf buckeye, yuccas, pepper 
bush, wild senna, althaeas, hydrangea, the blue cary- 
opteris, rose pur])le Desmodium penduliflorum, and 
the fluffy white sea elder (Baccharis) whose snowy 
pappus resembles blossoms. 
For planting in shady places I have found the fol- 
lowing shrubs to be among the best : Fortune’s for- 
sythia, Ibota privet, Japanese and bush honeysuckles, 
notably fragrantissima, spice bush, fragrant sumach, 
snowberry, elderberry, the lesser cornuses as stoloni- 
fera and sanguinea, and witch hazel. For dry spots: 
Bush honeysuckles, cornus sanguinea, sweet fern 
(Comptonia), candleberry (Myrica) , rugosa roses and 
the privets have behaved well with us. 
The following are a few of the e.xtra good shrubby 
plants I would impress upon you to make much use of : 
Thunberg’s berheris, molli.s azaleas, rugosa roses, espe- 
cially the variety Agnes Emily Carman, yuccas. Knap 
Ffill scarlet and Simoni Japan quince, Eva Rathke 
weigelia, Lemoine’s deutzia, villosa lilac. Fortune’s 
forsythia. Van Houtte’s spiraea and cornus sanguinea. 
Every one of them is of sterling merit. 
HIGH SCHOOL AND STOUT MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOI., .MKNO.MONIE, WIS., SHOWING TREATMENT OF GROUNDS. 
The surroundings of school buildings are often as 
bare and unattractive as it is possible to imagine. The 
authorities, as a rule, take good care of the inside of 
the buildings, but stop at the doors, and leave the school 
yard to the tender mercies of the police and small boy. 
“The beautiful is as useful as the useful,” and suggests 
the opportunity to educate both out of doors as well as 
indoors. School grounds may be laid out to make an 
attractive picture, as well as to give opportunities for 
the study of botany and horticulture. In some places 
this opportunity has been utilized and good results have 
been obtained, an excellent example being that of Me- 
nomonie, Wis. 
In 1897 the Central High School and the Stout Man- 
