" 394

KALMIA LATIFOLIA " " 395

YULAN (_Magnolia conspicua_) " " 402

YULAN AS A WALL SHRUB " " 403

MAGNOLIA CONSPICUA, var. _soulangeana_ (late Spring) " " 404

OLEARIA MACRODONTA " " 405

PRUNUS PERSICA " " 410

SPIRAEA ARGUTA " " 414

PRUNUS SERRULATA " " 416

PRUNUS PADUS, FL. PL. " " 417

PYRUS SINAICA " " 420

PYRUS SPECTABILIS " " 422

SIBERIAN CRAB (_Pyrus Malus baccata_) " " 423

PYRUS LOBATA " " 427

RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM (Hybrid) " " 428

RHODODENDRON HYBRID (Donegal) " " 429

RHODODENDRON PRAECOX " " 432

RHODODENDRON SAPHO IN IRISH GARDEN (Donegal) " " 433

CALIFORNIAN POPPY (_Romneya Coulteri_) " " 449

NEILLIA (SPIRAEA) OPULIFOLIA " " 452

SPIRAEA LINDLEYANA " " 453

LILACS " " 456

STANDARD LILAC " " 457

VIBURNUM MACROCEPHALUM " " 464

YUCCA GLORIOSA IN A SURREY GARDEN " " 466

YUCCA FILAMENTOSA " " 467

PTEROCARYA CAUCASICA " " 480

CORK OAK (_Quercus Suber_) " " 481

EVERGREEN OAKS " " 482

DOVASTON YEW ON STEEP BANK " " 486

TREES AND SHRUBS

CHAPTER I

WANT OF VARIETY A BLEMISH

There is a sad want of variety amongst evergreen and deciduous shrubs in
the average English garden. Faith is placed in a few shrubs with a
reputation for robbing the soil of its goodness and making a monotonous
ugly green bank, neither pleasant to look at nor of any protective
value. As one who knows shrubs well and the way to group them says,
"Even the landscape gardeners,