. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . e fact that they bear valuablefruit does not detract in the least from their desirabilityfor spring blossom beauty. They belong botanically tothe genus pyrus, and there are two kinds listed bynurserymen under that name —floribunda, with rosywhite flowers in great abundance; and scheideckeri,pink, which are among the most beautiful hardy treeswe have. The crabs are pretty from their flowers, andlater in the year from th
. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . e fact that they bear valuablefruit does not detract in the least from their desirabilityfor spring blossom beauty. They belong botanically tothe genus pyrus, and there are two kinds listed bynurserymen under that name —floribunda, with rosywhite flowers in great abundance; and scheideckeri,pink, which are among the most beautiful hardy treeswe have. The crabs are pretty from their flowers, andlater in the year from their fruits. One of the best isthe variety called John Downie. Laburnums are common enough, but we never growtired of them, and when mixed with lilacs, thorns, andother small trees which bloom late in spring, they dogood duty. They will thrive almost anywhere, and asufficient proof of their accommodating nature is theirsuccess on railway embankments. The Scotch {labur-num alpinuni) is better than the common, and costslittle or no more. An interesting member of the genusis the purple laburnum {adami), which will often bearseparate racemes of yellow and purple on the same. Magnolia conspicua as a pot plant. TREE AND SHRUB BEAUTY 165 plant. It originated as a graft hybrid between laburnumalpiiium and cytisus purpureus in a French nursery. Lilacs would be indispensable if we only had thecommon species {syringa vulgaris), for its abundantbunches of piquantly scented flowers make it a greatfavourite, and it will grow in most places; but thereare several varieties of it, such as Charles I., MarieLegraye, Alphonse Lavall6e, and Michael Buchner,which are more beautiful than their parent. Of thefour named, the first two are single and the othersdouble. Magnolias are among the most beautiful of our springshrubs and trees, with their huge, mainly white, are hardy, but they ought to have shelter fromcold quarters, or a sharp frost may spoil the star magnolia has alr
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