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beneath, and seated on very short petioles. The flowers are small, white, 
numerous, collected on the short ramifications of a stiff, erect, terminal panicle, 
the individual blossoms being formed of small, rather arcuate spreading petals. 
These flowers have a scent like that of the common privet, but less penetrating. 
It is a good addition to our low-growing hardy evergreens, and an excellent 
plant for introduction into formal or geometrical gardens, as its stiff growth and 
stout foliage give it somewhat the aspect of a plant which has been cast in metal, 
but pleasing withal, on account of its sharply defined outlines. Our figure is 
from the Revue Horticole^ in which it has recently been published.—T. Moore. 
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' Y the time we get into the third week of March, when the sun begins to 
get more powerj and the atmosphere is clear (although the wind may 
be blowing cold from the east), I have known it to be necessary to shade 
the plants with some sort of awning. Thin calico is as good as anything 
for the purpose, and it should be only for a short time during mid-day, just to 
keep the sun from flagging the plants, which should at all times be guarded 
against, as it not only checks the plant, but injures the bloom. 
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