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different colored flowering sorts. The rubra, alba , and puhe- 
rulenta are among, if not the best. 
The Hippophae. — This is a low-growing shrub with narrow 
leaves, downy whitish underneath, of no great beauty, but 
pleasing and desirable as a foreground plant in forming large 
masses. Some of the varieties have been described as growing 
to a height of fifteen or more feet; but we have never seen 
any above six feet, and oftener as low bushes of two or three 
feet. Its flowers are of a bright yellow, and its blooms in May 
are followed with orange-colored fruit that often hangs on all 
winter, rendering the effect when massed with evergreens very 
good. 
The Japan Globe Flower.— The Japan globe flower— 
Kerria Japonica — but a few years since was universally planted. 
Of late its use has become quite rare, and many new places 
with all the varieties have not a plant of this old favorite. Its 
habit of sucking is against it ; but mingled with low-growing 
evergreens, its smooth greenish wood, twig-like branches, and 
lanceolate serrated leaves, in connection with the profusion 
of rose-shaped yellow flowers that it bears from March to July, 
make it very attractive and desirable. There is a small growing, 
variegated-leaved sort that suits well the foreground of a mass 
or group. 
The Koelreuteria. — For the foreground of groups in which 
the Austrian or Scotch pines are prominent, the Koelreuteria 
paniculata, although only occasionally used, is really a very 
desirable plant. It is also well suited to a place in small 
gardens or lawns, and particularly where an erect, small, upright 
tree is wanted. Its stems are rather stiff than graceful, its 
leaves coarsely toothed and prominent ; but its flowers borne at 
the ends of the shoots in long racemose spikes or panicles of a 
bright yellow color, give to the plant or tree a very fine 
appearance. The flowers are followed by large bladdery 
