. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 102 DWYER'S GUIDE. Caryopteris Mastacanthus (Blue Spirea.)—A neat, compact, new sort, with large fragrant blue flower-cluster that keep crowding up plentifully from the axils of the leaves, from mid-summer until frost. If killed to the ground by frosts the young shoots spring up freely and flower the first season. Spirea Anthony Waterer.—A fine new dwarf spirea, witli large, crimson flower corymbs, produced quite abundantly. One of our finest shrubs. Spirea Callosa. (Fortune's Pink Spirea.)—Bears pink flowers in large, flat clusters near
. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 102 DWYER'S GUIDE. Caryopteris Mastacanthus (Blue Spirea.)—A neat, compact, new sort, with large fragrant blue flower-cluster that keep crowding up plentifully from the axils of the leaves, from mid-summer until frost. If killed to the ground by frosts the young shoots spring up freely and flower the first season. Spirea Anthony Waterer.—A fine new dwarf spirea, witli large, crimson flower corymbs, produced quite abundantly. One of our finest shrubs. Spirea Callosa. (Fortune's Pink Spirea.)—Bears pink flowers in large, flat clusters nearly all Summer. Viburnum Plicatum. (Ja- pan Snow Ball).—A beautiful flowering shrub; the flower clus- ters, which are produced all over the bush, are spherical in form and of the purest white, with beautiful crimped, dark green foliage. There are many other varieties of Snow Ball, but all are susceptible to the attacks o£ plant vermim, which curl and twist their wood into abnormal shapes, making them undesir- able for planting. (Viburnum Plicatum) is free from the rav- ages of this insect and we recommend it with confidence. Forsythia, Suspensa (Weep- ing Golden Bell).—An almost evergreen shrub of sprawling ha- bit, covered in Spring before the leaves appear with handsome yellow flowers. Very conspicu- J.\PAN SNOW BALL, OUS. Forsythia Viridissima.—Grows upright, has deep green bark and leaves and deep yellow flowers. It is one of the very finest of all early blooming flowering shrubs. Coryius Atropurpurea (Purple Leaved Filbert.—A very conspicuous shrub, with large, dark purple leaves; very distinct, Eleagnus Longipes (Japan Oleaster).—Beautiful silvery foliage, laden with fruit; the bush is highly ornamental and the fact that the leaves remain fresh till late Autumn gives it additional value. Halesia Tetraptera (Silver Bell).—A beautiful large shrub, with pret- ty white bell-shaped flowers in May; it is distinguished by its four winged fruit which is from one
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