This little known hardy shrub, a native of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Spain, is one of great beauty, and well worthy of extended culture.

He next ran to the left and was met by men with pikes, one of whom prodded him so that he yelled and ran under some ornamental shrubs, beneath which a pair of frightened dogs had taken shelter.

From August to October is the flowering period of this handsome deciduous shrub.

From August to October is the flowering period of this handsome deciduous shrub.

Here was a pretty shrub.

This is a neat, twiggy shrub, growing from 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, with slender shoots, and very pleasing, shining green serrated leaves.

This is a very distinct and beautiful flowering shrub.

Chamaebatia foliolosa, a little shrub about a foot high, with flowers like the strawberry, makes handsome carpets beneath the pines, and seems to be a favorite with the bees; while pines themselves furnish unlimited quantities of pollen and honey-dew.

It is a charming shrub, and all the more valuable as it flowers at the end of summer, when few hardy plants are in bloom.

Bird notes dropped like honey from fragrant shrubs and trees that hid the singers.

If only for its rich, blue berries, as large as those of a cherry, this otherwise elegant climbing shrub is well worthy of a far greater share of attention than it has yet received, for it must be admitted that it is far from common.

To be sure, my cottage home is half buried in tall shrubs, some of which are flowering, and some are not.

A large-growing, deciduous climbing shrub, remarkable for its ample foliage, and curiously formed yellow and purple streaked flowers.

It is a valuable ornamental shrub, but, like the others, suffers from the effects of frost.

This is a native shrub, being found in Scotland, northern England and Ireland.

This is a curious and uncommon shrub that one rarely sees outside the walls of a botanic garden.

This is produced from a shrub more bushy than the pomegranate tree, and of a more pleasant smell, but having a kind of a bitterish taste.

For seaside planting this is an invaluable shrub, as it succeeds well down even to high water mark, and where it is almost lashed by the salt spray.

It is a pretty, but rare shrub, that grows well in light sandy leaf soil.

This is a much branched twiggy shrub, about 4 feet high, with small, linear-lanceolate leaves, thickly studded with pellucid dots.

ANDROMEDA POLIFOLIA.An indigenous shrub of low growth, with lanceolate shining leaves, and pretty globose pinky-white flowers.

From its neat, small growth, and rich profusion of flowers, this dwarf Almond may be reckoned as a most useful and desirable shrub.

In this latitude late frosts cut off the hope of fruit too often for the wild almond to multiply greatly, but the spiny, tap-rooted shrubs are resistant to most plant evils.

But he made no sound that betrayed his concealment under a thick banskian shrub.

This is a neat, twiggy shrub, growing from 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, with slender shoots, and very pleasing, shining green serrated leaves.