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CHINESE WISTARIA

QUARTER SIZE. (MOON SEED). - This is a pretty, native, twining, slenderbranched shrub, with small yellow flowers and black berries. SILK VINE. (PERIPLOCA):- This is another beautiful, rapid growing vine, climbing to a height of thirty to forty feet. The foliage is glossy and the clusters of flowers a purple brown.

WISTARIA. These are beautiful climbers, and there are many varieties, with various colored flowers. The Chinese wistaria is one of the best. In fact, is one of the most elegant and rapid growing of all climbing plants; attains an immense size, growing at the rate of fifteen or twenty feet in a season. Has long pendulous clusters of pale blue flowers in May and June, and in autumn. The illustration shows the leaves and flowers quarter size.

IX. Flowering Trees.

THESE are of many kinds, and should not be neglected. They are especially useful on lawns of large extent, such as should always belong to the better class of farms. The magnolia should find a place everywhere, from the magnificent varieties adapted to the far South to the smaller shrub-like varieties of the North