shrub, growing to a good size.
The variety, Pride of Rochester, is very pretty.

_Diervilla (Weigela)._--Indispensable shrubs, very hardy,
free-flowering, and easily grown. The flowering shoots should be cut
back to strong young wood as soon as the flowers fade. They are most
accommodating in this respect, as the strongest of the young shoots
start well back and not at the points, as is usual with most plants.
Good varieties are Eva Rathke, _Hortensis nivea_, and _rosea_.

_Escallonia macrantha._--A good wall shrub.

_Escallonia philippiana._--Hardier than _E. macrantha_, and can be grown
as a bush in a sheltered spot.

_Forsythia suspensa._--Quite hardy, and very beautiful in early spring,
as it flowers before the leaf-buds burst. It should be cut back to young
growths after the flower is over.

_Fuchsia Riccartoni._--This gets cut down every winter, but is never
killed, and it flowers abundantly every year treated as a hardy
herbaceous plant.

_Garrya elliptica._--Quite hardy as a bush.

_Genista tinctoria fl. pl._--A low-growing trailing Genista, useful for
the rock garden and flowering when many of the alpines are over.

_Genista virgata._--A very different plant from the above, and will make
a very large bush, covered with pale-yellow flowers in late summer. A
good shrub.

_Halesia tetraptera._--Quite hardy and attractive both in bloom and
foliage.

_Hamamelis arborea._--This is quite hardy, but grows very slowly. It
flowers in a small state, but not very freely. I have only had this
plant for four years, but I think it will do very well, and should
flower more freely when a bit larger.

_Hedysarum multijugum._--Quite hardy. An attractive shrub, with spikes
of reddish pea-like flowers in July and August. It increases freely from
the root by suckers. Thin and cut back the shoots in spring.

_Helianthemum vulgare_ (Rock Rose).--There are many garden varieties of
this, both double and single, the single sorts being the most
attractive. They are quite hardy on a warm and sunny rock garden.

_Hydrangea paniculata._--Hardy. A splendid low-growing shrub, flowering
in autumn. A group of this, with a few plants of _Prunus Pissardi_ cut
hard back every spring to keep them small, is very effective, and the
group can be carpeted with Lily of the Valley or London Pride to cover
the bare soil underneath. The shoots of the Hydrangea should be well
thinned, and those left cut hard back in the spring. It well repays