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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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pulverulentum, Sedum acre, and Pyrethrum. 

 •Circles f/, Agave "filifera nana, Sedum glaucum, 

 •Cacalia, and Pyrethrum. Circles c, Agave veru- 

 cosa, Sedum acre aureum. Aloes, and Pyreth- 

 rum. Circles y. Agave Americana, Sedum op- 

 positifolium, Sempervivum Donklari arborea, 

 and Pyrethrum. 1 is Alternanthera amabilis 

 latifolia smTonnded by a lingermg ribbon of 



Fig. \h. 

 Pyrethrum; 2, A. amcena; 3, Leucophyton 

 Brownii; and 4 Sempervivum montanum. 



Fig. 15 is the half part of a bed, 40 feet by 8 

 wide. 1 is Alternanthera raagnifica, bordered 

 by Pyrethrum, as well as is 2, Cerastum arvense ; 

 3, Altei'nanthera amoena ; 4, Pyrethrum ; and 5, 

 *Sedum acre elegans. 



Fig. 16, 27x8. Alternanthera versicolor ; 2, 

 A. spatulata; 3, Sedum acre; 4 Pyrethrum; 5, 

 Alternanthera magnifica ; 6, A. paronychioides ; 



VINES. 



BY REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. 



1. Every vine, shrub or tree that approaches the 

 condition of evergreen, is valuable for its winter 

 beauty. Hall's Japan Honeysuckle is the most 

 valuable of all the family of hardy Honeysuckles. 

 It is hardy, luxuriant, a real everbloomer the 

 Summer through, of fine green leaf, and, except 

 under long continued severely cold weather, it is 

 evergreen. Under my window, as I write, is a 

 vine spread upon the ground, as green as in mid- 

 sunimer. 



The Flexuosa, or Chinese, is near by, quite 

 shrunk with cold, and will do no more till 

 Spring. If one can have but one, that one 

 should be Hall's. If suffered to grow along the 

 ground, it will root at almost every joint, and 

 furnish abundance of new plants without trouble. 



1 have enjoyed a method of treating Honey- 

 suckles on the lawn, viz., putting about a 

 vigorous root five or six stakes, say four feet 

 high, suiTounding them with twine, about three 

 hoops at equal distances, and allowing the vine 

 to cover them. By the second year an altar of 

 green will be formed, most comely to the eye. If 

 the Aurea reticulata shall be used, it will give a 



Fig. 16. 



7, A. amcena; 8, A. spectal)ilis ; 9, Pyrethrum ; 

 10, Cerastium tomentosum ; 11, Mesembryan- 

 themum cordifolium varicgatum ; 12 Sedum acre 

 elegans; 13, Peristrophe angustifolia; and 14, 

 Sempervivum Californicuni. 



Fig. 17. 1, single specimens of Chamapeuce 

 diacantha; 2, Pyrethi-um; 3, Alternanthera 

 paronychioides; 4, A. amoena; 5, Leucophyton 

 Brownii; 6, Mesembryanthemum cordifolium; 

 and the small circles on the lawn are single 

 specimens of Sempervivum Donklari. 



splendid golden effect. Golden vines should not 

 be suffered to twine with others, as the appear- 

 ance will be that of a sickly vine mixed with a 

 healthy one ; l)ut, kept separately, the effect is 

 admirable. 



The Lonicera fragrantissima is a shrub that 

 comes very near being evergreen. In sheltered 

 places it will hold its leaves till after Christmas. 

 At Peekskill, forty miles north of New York, on 

 the flanks of the Highlands, it is yet (Jan. 4) in 

 good condition, though it has passed tlu-ough 



