This hardy deciduous shrub bears in September deliciously scented pure white flowers on the side-shoots of the previous year's growth.

But," I ended, lifting my moist eyes toward the sweep of the dark slopes, "the wind blows, and leaves the mystic to inquire whence and whither, the wild shrub blossoms and only the poet is troubled to excuse its beauty, and happy is he who can live without too much thought of life.

I came upon a shrub cedar growing in a niche and marveled to see it there.

Rejoiced I see thy purple mantle spread 80 O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way, And orient pearls from every shrub depend.

" "'Tis yours," with accents mild the Genius cried, Streams, as he speaks, o'er all the meadows glide, A fresher green the fragrant shrubs display, And every leaf in trembling cheers the day; Slaking their raging thirst, the flocks are seen, And new-born herbage clothes the earth in green.

Suddenly, the grove and the garden ended and we were over the threshold of a square of sward, an out-of-door reception room, no tree or shrub encroaching.

This handsome shrub forms a much branched, spreading bush, about 4 feet to 6 feet high, and flowers abundantly in May.

They grow and spread freely, and are therefore useful where unchecked and rampant shrub growth is desirable.

A sensation of equal, if not greater, relief is experienced in Yellowstone Park when one leaves the grand, death-like desolation around the Hot Springs, and encounters the exquisite beauty of shrub land and timber but a few paces away.

I was walking in a meadow, the source of a small brook, when the sun at last, just before setting, after a cold gray day, reached a clear stratum in the horizon, and the softest, brightest morning sunlight fell on the dry grass and on the stems of the trees in the opposite horizon, and on the leaves of the shrub-oaks on the hill-side, while our shadows stretched long over the meadow eastward, as if we were the only motes in its beams.

We directed our course for a large shrub plain, some distance off, where we intended to conceal ourselves from the approaching enemy, until we could refresh and rest ourselves a little.

In the shrub shelter, in the season, flock the little stemless things whose blossom time is as short as a marriage song.

It is of shrub size, with Laurel-like leaves, and sweetly-scented, small, pure white flowers, produced about the end of June.

SWEET GALE.The whole shrub tinges woollen of a yellow colour.

Both for its flowers and fruit, this Nepaul shrub-tree is well worthy of a great amount of trouble to get it established in a cosy corner of the garden.