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LAWK AND SHADE TREES. 
There is one known as Josiksea and one as Charles the Tenth, 
which have much the same habit of the old variety, but with 
more glossy leaves, and the former flowers of a deep purple, and 
the latter a reddish purple. There is also a variegated-leaved 
variety of the common vulgaris. 
There is also a class of lilacs under the names of Chinese and 
Persian. The former, Chinese, is intermediate between vulgaris 
and persica in its habit of upright growth and with partially 
strong wood, while the latter has slender wood, sometimes almost 
recurved. There are a great many varieties, differing mainly in 
the shade of color in flower, while some are pure white. All of 
the lilacs are perfectly hardy ; may be clipped and kept at any low 
height, and masses formed from a complete collection of the colors 
become very effective, especially if a little attention is paid, when 
planting, to arranging them with regard to the shades of the 
flowers and foliage. The cut-leaved lilac — lasciniata — is a pretty 
variety for the foreground of a mass or for a single point plant, 
on account of its curiously serrated or clipped leaves. 
The Mezereum — Daphne . — The Daphne mezereum is a small 
shrub of about two to three feet in height, producing on its 
stems a profusion of pink or white flowers, according to the 
variety, in March or early April, before almost anything else. The 
flowers are very fragrant, and the plant on account of its period 
of blooming an exceedingly valuable one to plant. It needs a 
dry soil, deep and rich. The seeds or berries following the 
flowers become ripe and red in August or September, and are 
poisonous. 
The Magnolia. — Under the head of Trees we have named 
most of the varieties of magnolia in cultivation, because most 
of them form trees rather than shrubs ; but the magnolia pur- 
purea rarely, if ever, grows above six feet in height, and from 
its hardiness, broad, large, dark green foliage and numerous 
large cup-shaped purple and white flowers., demand for it a 
