The Wayfaring Tree (Viburnum Lan-Tana)

This valuable shrub does not receive that amount of attention to which its merits entitle it. It succeeds well in some of the most filthy and smoky districts of our largest cities. It blooms with great freedom, and the flowers are succeeded by the brightest and showiest of berries. The Wayfaring Tree is readily propagated, and few soils come amiss to it.

Leycesteria Formosa

Leycesteria Formosa is a beautiful hardy shrub, with hollow stems, large ovate leaves, and white or purplish flowers in pendulous racemes. More conspicuous than the flowers are the deep purple foliaceous bracts, which impart to the shrub a distinct and very ornamental appearance. It is a capital town plant, shooting out fresh and green after being subjected to a winter's incessant fumes from the chimneys of the great metropolis. It is perfectly hardy, of free growth, readily propagated, and altogether a valuable shrub.

The Flowering Currant (Ribes San-Guineum)

Too much praise can hardly be bestowed on this handsome free-flowering shrub for the planting of town gardens and shrubberies. There it succeeds to perfection, and flowers with the greatest freedom. In early spring it breaks out fresh and strong, regardless of the noxious fumes and impure atmosphere. Well planted at first, it rarely fails, striking out its roots far and wide, and soon becoming a dense shrub of medium proportions. Nothing can well surpass it for the quantity, colour, and quality of its showy flowers, while it is the easiest of shrubs to propagate and cultivate.

Phillyrea Vilmoriniana

This has been planted largely for experimental purposes in the very heart of London, and succeeds there in such a way as to entitle it to rank first amongst shrubs for town planting. It is of neat habit, is an easy subject to deal with, and requires but little attention.

The Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymno-cladus canadensis)

The Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymno-cladus canadensis) can ill be spared from any list of suitable subjects for the town garden, it having been proved to be an excellent plant for the purpose. The racemes of white flowers which it bears in abundance are particularly showy and interesting.

The Strawberry Tree (Arbutus Unedo)

The Strawberry Tree (Arbutus Unedo) finds a congenial home in the great metropolis, and there may be seen flourishing where daily it is subjected to poisonous emanations from chimneys. The thick leathery leaves seem well able to resist the worst of town air impurities, for they look as fresh and green after every shower of rain as could well be desired. As an ornamental shrub the Arbutus ranks high, the creamy flowers and strawberry-like fruit being peculiarly rich and attractive. Any soil of good quality, but not surcharged with moisture, grows it well.

The Double Furze (Ulex Europaeus flore pleno)

The Double Furze (Ulex Europaeus flore pleno) is one of our handsomest flowering shrubs, and is of value for planting in town gardens and squares. For clothing warm and dry banks, where few other plants would succeed, Furze does remarkably well, the foliage being thick and healthy, while the flowers are abundantly produced. It is of neat habit, and by judicious pruning may be kept to any desirable size.