Mr. Ellwanger also calls attention to some most excellent effects that may be produced by a proper assortment, either planted singly or in groups, of those varieties which present so great a diversity in the color of their foliage or flowers, with, for instance, a bed of Magnolias (the light flowering Chinese), or the Scarlet Japan quince in the foreground. What an array of color can be formed with a background of Forsythias in their yellow dress, or a group of Judas trees in the full glory of their pink habiliments.

And a little later in the season what contrasts can be made by a proper placing of the different colored hawthorns, the Philadel-phus, the Magnolia Soulangeana, the many colored lilacs, and the hosts of other flower-ing shrubs.

Then the white-leaved linden, the virgilia lutea, the birches, the chionanthus virginica, the snowball, and the many other light barked and white foliaged or white flowering trees adapt themselves wonderfully in contrasting with and heightening the effect of the numerous red flowering and darker foliaged trees.