GARDEN SHRUBS.
Books on gardening are responding wholeheartedly to the new preference for flowering shrubs. Many French châteaux may be said to have no garden, in our sense of the word, but have been ingeniously adorned with trees and shrubs. We shall not give up our herbaceous borders, our annual beds, or our rock gardens ; but the cult of the shrub, which dis- penses its beauty without any cost in labour, grows fast. Such sweet shrubs as viburnum fragrans or chimonanthus fragrans or the wych-hazel become only less common than the lilac or laburnum or Daphne. To respond to the new demand Mr. Osborn, who is in charge of the Arboretum at Kew, has written an exceedingly stout volume containing a shrub and tree A B C as well as all the good advice you can want, Shrubs and Trees for the Garden (by A. Osborn, Ward, Lock, £1 ls.).
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