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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
The plant should be clipped back occasionally, otherwise it is 
liable to grow too rambling, irregular, and tall, and its beauty 
and quantity of bloom become reduced. Any good loamy 
soil suits it. 
The Weigela. — Among all the plants introduced during the 
past thirty years, we do not think any one more truly beautiful 
Fia. 64.— White Fringe Tree. 
than the Weigela rosea when in flower. It is a shrub of the easiest 
cultivation, growing freely in almost any soil, forming a round 
regular bush ; and w r hen loaded with its large clusters of rose- 
colored flowers, borne upon the side branches and at the 
extremities of the shoots, it has a slightly drooping and 
graceful form, extremely beautiful. Since its introduction 
varieties have been produced, all very beautiful, but none 
surpassing the rosea. The amabilis has a somewhat larger foliage, 
and a habit of sometimes blooming in autumn, which makes it 
quite desirable. Alba has flowers almost white or of a delicate 
