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fol form, growing yearly more dense by shoots thrown up from 

 the crown, but never sending up suckers from the roots. The 

 bark and root are used for dyeing linen and leather, imparting to 

 them a bright yellow color. The fruit is very acid. It is some- 

 times pickled, but used more as an ornament than a pickle. 

 Boiled with sugar, it makes a pleasant jelly, and of a most 

 beautiful color. 



Carolixa Allspice. ^ — Cdlycanthus. — This shrub will hardly 

 thrive, we fear, in the colder parts of the Dominion, except 

 where the snow falls to such a depth as to cover it entirely 

 during the severity of winter. In such places, and in the 

 vicinity of the great lakes and other large bodies of water, it will 

 live and thrive, making a moderate annual growth. At Halifax 

 it is grown, but only in sheltered situations. It is very desirable 

 for its peculiarly formed chocolate-colored flowers, which have a 

 very delightful fragrance of ripe fruits, a mingling of the odor of 

 Pine Apples and Melons. In our climate it is quite a low 

 shrub, rarely attaining a greater height than three or four feet, 

 growing best in strong, loamy soil It is propagated by layers, 

 but chiefly £rom the nuts, which mature abundantly in warmer 

 climates. 



CA^"ADLAN Judas Tree. — Cereis Canadensis. — ^Tosome, this 

 pretty, low growing tree, is known as the Red-Bud, from the 

 appearance of the branches, which, early in the spring, are profusely 

 covered with clusters of pretty pea-shaped blossoms, of a ruddy 

 pink color. The leaves are very pretty also, being very regularly 

 heart-shaped, and of a rich green. The blossoms appear before 

 the leaves are expanded, and thus give to the tree a very pleasing 

 appearance. It grows slowly, seeming to prefer a rich loam, and 

 a somewhat sheltered situation. In favorable localities it attains 

 a height of twenty feet, but with us it may be set down as rarely 

 exceeding twelve or fifteen feet. We know it to be quite 

 hardy in the greater part of "Western Ontario, and believe that it 

 will make a handsome shrub in most parts of the Dominion. It 

 has not been planted as generally as its beauty deserves, hence 



