June  21,  1900. 
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j  A  Triumph  in  Hybridisation.  Unique  Offer. 
3  NEW  PASSION  FLOWERS 
AILmTL.  distinct. 
Exceeding  in  beauty  all  others.  Delicately 
Perfumed.  Free  Blooming. 
Raised  at  Oldfield  I^rseries^  Altrincham. 
1^  PASSIFLOrI  CLIBRANL  ^ 
This  beautiful  distinguished  hybrid  cannot  be  too  highly 
,  commended.  We  claim  it  to  be  the  ideal  of  all  the 
Passion  Flowers,  it  being  a  most  distinct  and  handsome 
variety  after  the  style  of  Princeps,  but  far  excelling  this 
variety.  The  petals  are  of  a  rich  red  wine  colour,  always 
I  so  attractive,  rays  of  corona  chocolate  tipped  with 
'  white.  A  charming  flower  in  every  respect.  Perfectly 
!  free  and  vigorous. 
;  w-PASSIFLORA  FRAGRANT  BEAUTY-« 
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middle,  upper  portion  bluish  purple  shades.  Charming 
I  contrasts.  Profuse  bloomer. 
PASSIFLORA  OLDFIELD  GEM. 
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The  Season  of  Flowering  Trees. 
E  extensive  planting  of  flowering 
trees  and  shrubs  in  pleasure  grounds 
is  practically  a  modern  custom- 
If  you  wander  through  au  old 
time  garden  that  has  never  been 
renovated  or  added  to,  the  chances  are 
that  you  will  find  a  wealth  of  green,  fine 
^  ornamental  trees  of  the  Conifer  class,  with 
perhaps  some  variegation  in  foliage,  but 
little  bloom  beyond  that  provided  by  the  Chestnuts , 
Limes,  and  trees  of  similar  character.  The  old 
landscape  gardener  had  a  tendency  to  cover  the 
.walls  with  Wistarias,  Magnolias,  climbing  Roses, 
and  the  rest,  but  with  him  the  shrubbery  garden 
was  the  place  for  foliage  alone,  and  few  flowering 
trees  bad  a  place  there. 
Possibly  there  are  several  reasons  for  this,  but 
one  is  that  he  had  not  the  material  at  his  com¬ 
mand.  The  flowering  trees  and  shrubs  which  we 
now  possess  are  mostly  modern  creations  which 
have  been  introduced  during  recent  years,  and  by 
their  advent  they  have  brought  about  material 
changes  in  the  formation  and  appearance  of 
pleasure  grounds.  Nor  have  they  taken  the  place 
of  older  ornamental  trees,  for  the  gresn  adorn¬ 
ments  of  the  garden  are  as  popular  as  ever  they 
were,  hut  the  flowering  trees  break  down  the 
monotony  of  the  everlasting  green,  brighten  the 
somhreness  of  it  all,  and  add  a  ray  of  showy 
colour  which  is  rendered  more  delightful  by  the 
presence  of  the  verdure.  If  evidence  is  wanted  of 
this,  go  anywhere  you  like  where  a  new  garden  is 
being  made,  or  an  old  one  renovated,  and  I  venture 
to  assert  that  flowering  trees  and  shrubs  will  he 
well  represented.  They  are  prime  favourites,  these 
trees  that  bloom,  and  have  worked  their  way  into 
gardens  fashioned  centuries  ago,  where  they  are 
as  much  appreciated  as  in  the  small  enclosure 
which  surrounds  the  modern  villa. 
Evidence  is  not  wanting  to  show  that  if  the 
landscapist  of  a  past  decade  had  been  furnished 
with  this  material,  he  would  have  used  it  with 
advantage,  and  it  was  more  from  necessity  than 
choice  that  his  shrubberies  were  evergreen.  The 
No.  2699.— VoL.  CII.,  Old  Series. 
