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some head. Suckers must be destroyed tlie instaut tliey 

 appear, and the stem ought also to be clean to the bottom ; 

 therefore rub off all buds that push out anywhere about the 

 stem. In this form the Lilac tree may then be planted 

 among evergreen shrubs, which will completely hide the stem, 

 while it takes up scarcely any room. There is no art in 

 growing the bushes, for the suckers have only to be cut down 

 to about three or four eyes from the ground at the first 

 planting, and the season's growth will form a bush. 



SYRINGA. . See Philadelphus. 



TABERN^MONTANA. [Apocynacese.] Evergreen stove 

 shrubs, some of which, the popular ones, are much like 

 the Gardenia, or Cape Jasmine : the scent is the same, and 

 the foliage alike. Cuttings taken from the ends of unbloom- 

 ing shoots will strike in sand on sandy peat earth, and covered 

 with a bell-glass. A dung-bed is preferable to any other 

 place while the plants are young. When they have struck 

 they may go through a course of regular potting, beginning 

 with small ones, three inches over, and changing from time to 

 time as they advance in size. While they are young any 

 bloora-buds that appear may be cut out, because flowering 

 always arrests the growth of a plant ; but if the plants are in 

 a private collection, then it may be more desirable they 

 should bloom small than make a more rapid growth. When 

 they have made their growth for the season, and begin to 

 rest, they must be put in a cool part of the hothouse, and 

 have no water except just to keep them from dying. As soon 

 as the season of growth arrives they want moist heat, and the 

 dung-bed is the best if room can be there made for them. 

 The popular kind is T. coronaria, of which there is also a 

 double variety, both bearing white flowers about July. 



TACSONIA. [Passitloraceae.] Beautiful evergreen climb- 

 ing plants, so nearly allied to Passion-flowers that many 

 persons have wondered at their separation. T. pinnatistipula, 

 with all the habit of the Passion-flower, has beautiful rose- 

 coloured flowers. It requires greenhouse culture, and grows 

 very fast unless starved ; indeed, a plant of it will cover a 

 small cottage front on being planted out of doors in the 

 spring, and in a mild autumn it will bloom before the frost 

 cuts it down. It is propagated by cuttings, which root well 



