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dying out after a few years’ culture. Their value is mainly in 
some position near the top of some rocky point. Stems 
greenish yellow, flowers yellow in June and July. 
The Sopiiora. — The sopiiora Japonica or Japan sophora is a 
beautiful round-headed tree, with smooth dark green bark and 
delicate blue green foliage. In the Northern and Middle States 
it is not perfectly hardy, but south of Philadelphia it stands 
pretty well, and deserves a place in all grounds where the 
climate will admit. It is sometimes grown in sheltered situa- 
tions at the North, amid evergreens or on poor thin soils, which 
seem to increase its hardiness, probably because of less succu- 
lence in the shoots and their better ripening. 
The Spiraea. — The species and varieties of spiraea number over 
fifty, all of which are hardy and beautiful both in flower and 
foliage. A group may be formed alone of the varieties of spiraea 
that will give almost a continuation of flowers from May until 
October. Their growth is usually from two to four feet, 
