. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 511 Fig. Spircea Reevcsi Jforc plena. — A shrub of very graceful spreading growth. The branches, on old bushes, assume a curved form, their tips touch- ing the ground. Flowers white, very double ; May and June. Foliage deep green, and not glo
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 511 Fig. Spircea Reevcsi Jforc plena. — A shrub of very graceful spreading growth. The branches, on old bushes, assume a curved form, their tips touch- ing the ground. Flowers white, very double ; May and June. Foliage deep green, and not glossy. Height four to six feet, with a greater breadth. Fig. i66 shows the characteristic form of this variety. Spircea Van Hoiitti.—A graceful spreading shrub, with deep rose-colored flowers in June. Height six feet. Spircea prunifoUa.—One of the most common and most beauti- ful, but apt to be undervalued, when first planted, on account of its apparently stiff and twiggy habit, and many suckers ; but when it becomes an old bush, it has quite another appearance. Then its long slender branches arch gracefully towards the lawn, and its small and very glossy oval leaves form pleasing masses of foliage of a fine dark green in summer, and a rich purple or crimson in autumn. Flowers white, in May and June. Height six to eight feet, and very broad at maturity if allowed room for expansion. Spircea billardi.—A strong upright grower, in form like the althea. Flowers red, in long terminal spikes ; in bloom from June to October. Foliage light green. Height six to eight feet. It should be planted behind low full-foliaged shrubs, as it becomes bare near the ground. The Golden Snowball Spir/EA. S. opuUfolia aurea.—This variety forms a great round bush, ten to twelve feet high. Flowers white, in June. Foliage a yellowish-green, abundant and massy. White Beam-leaved Spir/EA. S. ariafolia.—A strong upright grower, native of Vancouver's Island, distinguished for the great size and frag
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