. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1905. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. '44 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. spiraeas. It makes a graceful, sjnnnietri- cal little bush about five feet in dianieter, with slender drooping twigs. The bloom is pure white, very ])rofuse, appears the first week in June and lasts about two weeks. Virburnum opulus sterile (Snow ball). Tihis is a hardy free-growing shrub, about ten feet high, which bears large round clus- ters of pure white flowers, which look like snowballs. Jn bloom about June 4 and lasts over two weeks. Lonicera tartarica (iJush Honeysuckle). A
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1905. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. '44 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. spiraeas. It makes a graceful, sjnnnietri- cal little bush about five feet in dianieter, with slender drooping twigs. The bloom is pure white, very ])rofuse, appears the first week in June and lasts about two weeks. Virburnum opulus sterile (Snow ball). Tihis is a hardy free-growing shrub, about ten feet high, which bears large round clus- ters of pure white flowers, which look like snowballs. Jn bloom about June 4 and lasts over two weeks. Lonicera tartarica (iJush Honeysuckle). A very ihardy symmetrical bush 10 feet or more in diameter. Has an aibundance of bloom every year, which appears the first week of June and lasts about a week. The bloom is followed 'by showy red or orange fruits which make the bush attractive long after the bloom is gone. There are red, pink, and white varieties, all of which are worthy of a place on the lawn. Good varie- ties may easily be grown from the seed. Diervilla rosea (Rose colored Weigela). This is a handsome bush which is only half- hardy here when }'oung. but becomes 'hardier 'with age. It makes a bush five or six feet in diameter. The flowers are large and bell-shaped, appearing among the foliage the first week in June and lasting nearly three weeks. Philadelphus coronarius (Garland Sv- ringa). A hardy vigorous bus'h about 10 feet in height, bears large white fragrant flowers like orange blossoms. In bloom about June 15 and lasts over two weeks. Rhus Cotinus (Purple Fringe or Smoke Tree). A hardy, thrifty shrub which. Lonicera Tartarica grows 10 or 12 feet high and makes a shape- ly ibush. About the middle of July it comes in bloom and from that till autumn it is cov- ered with curious fringe or plume-like flow- ers, whidi are very showy. Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora. A somewhat straggling growing s'hrub, which may become six or eight feet high, but is better when pruned back severely every spring, the same as r
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