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specimen. It is marvellous that such a plant as this should be absent from any garden where 

 ornamental subjects are appreciated ; perhaps the idea that it requires a wall may have deterred 

 some amateurs from obtaining it ; but the fact is, that the plant is as hardy as the Hawthorn, and if it 

 is sometimes trained to a wall, it is only for the sake of the support thus afforded to its slender 

 shoots. In no situation does it make a more ornamental appearance than when trained on a stout 

 iron rod, bent in an arch-like form over the garden path ; and every one of our readers who has not 

 this plant should forthwith obtain it for such a purpose. 



And here is a worthy companion to the Glycine, in the Clianthus puniceus, well-named the Glory 

 Pea, though this does require a wall, and richly deserves it, or even a double matting when necessary. 

 With this protection it passed safely through the last winter, and considering the intensity of the 

 cold on several occasions, that is saying a great deal. Those who have only seen this plant grown 

 under glass, where it is almost sure to be attacked by red spider, and assume an appearance anything 

 but ornamental, can hardly form an idea of the fresh green fern-like aspect of the foliage, and the 

 depth of colour of the flowers, when treated as a hardy plant. 



A little further on we find the Abeliz floribunda, a shrub scarcely less ornamental, when in 

 flower, than the Clianthus, and certainly hardier, though it is not to be trusted except against a wall. 

 With such a protection it has stood exposure as far north as Edinburgh ; no one therefore need 

 hesitate to treat it as a wall plant in the English counties. The long, rich rosy-tinted flowers 

 of this beautiful shrub, and their profusion, cannot fail to make it a favorite wherever it is once 

 grown. But here is a Caprifoil which even those who have not a walled garden may grow, the 

 Weigela rosea, one of the most ornamental of all our deciduous shrubs, and so common that we need 

 not describe either its appearance or culture, further than that it likes a generous penetrable soil, 

 and should be pruned in, rather severely, in early spring. 



This pretty Adenocarpus intermedins deserves a moment's attention. It is covered with yellow 

 pea-shaped blossoms, and is hardly distinguishable from a Cytisus until the pods are ripe, when, if the 

 seeds are examined, a curious waxy gland will be seen on each side of the hilum, which at once 

 marks it as distinct from the genus Cytisus, with which, however, it was formerly allied. And 

 contrasting with the preceding is the somewhat rare Jndigofera Hosua also belonging to the 

 Leguminaceee, which although perfectly hardy and capable of resisting twenty or thirty degrees of frost, 

 is, strangely enough, still classed by the trade with green-house plants. Its elegant pinnated leaves, 

 and spikes of rosy purple flowers, produced very freely, have a very pretty effect. It grows, with 

 time, five feet high, and likes a good soil. We must give those of our readers who are unacquainted 

 with this pretty plant an opportunity of judging by a figure. Several other ornamental shrubs of 

 this natural order are now in flower ; here is the Coronilla glauca, looking a little ninched from the 

 nips it got from Jack Frost ! but still manifesting its vitality by a few dozen heads of blossoms ; 

 the Cytisus purpureus, with its slender shoots pointing downwards ; the C. sessilifolius, with ever- 

 green leaves, and erect spikes of yellow blossoms which quite cover the bush, and the C. nigricans, 

 of a rather dwarfer habit, and smaller spikes of flowers. And last, but not least, we must name the 

 elegant Eose- Acacia, Mobinia hispida, with its bunches of delicate pink flowers and graceful foliage ; 

 its wood is, however, so brittle, that we have never been able to preserve it unbroken for any length 

 of time, in spite of precautions. 



On no account must we omit to point out the charming Ceanothxs dentatus, now loaded with its 

 clusters of blue flowers, and pleasing every body by its neat compactly arranged foliage. Wherever 

 there is space upon a wall this highly desirable evergreen shrub should be planted. And of a 

 similar colour though different habit, is the Sollya heterophylla, just bursting into bloom ; though that 

 has not been fully exposed, and is but just placed out, but we have not much doubt that with a 

 mat it would have outlived the winter. We must not however linger among the shrubs, or we shall 



