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ceeded by clusters of scarlet fruit. The Barberry is a bush 

 usually four or five, but often seven or eight, feet high." 



It has often been said, and very generally believed, that Bar- 

 berry bushes were prejudicial to rye, causing it to blast ; but 

 this has not been our experience, having grown heavy crops 

 of rye in fields with Barberry bushes on all sides of it. 



B. dulcis is more dwarf in its habits, the foliage more deli- 

 cate, and almost evergreen ; the flowers dark-orange, scattered 

 along the branches, among the foliage. It is a very pretty 

 plant, and makes a handsome hedge. All the species are 

 easily propagated by suckers. 



BIGNONIA. 



Trumpet Flower. 



The species are trees or shrubs, inhabitants of hot climates. 

 The flowers are produced in panicles, and are large, handsome, 

 and of various colors. The hardy species will grow in almost 

 any good soil, and easily propagated by layers or cuttings of 

 the root. 



Big?Lonia radicans. Scarlet Trumpet Flower. This is a 

 magnificent climbing plant, producing large, trumpet-shaped, 

 orange-scarlet flowers, of great beauty, from July to October. 

 They are produced in clusters ; handsome in bud, as well as 

 when fully expanded, which, when contrasted with the elegant 

 glossy, pinnate foliage, presents a most splendid sight when 

 trained to a pillar or trellis. 



The plant is a little tender in some locations, and will do 

 best to be laid down and covered over, or secured with straw 

 or mats. 



This is the only species generally cultivated, in this neigh- 

 borhood, in the open air. B. grandiftora will succeed in a 

 more southern climate, and perhaps at the north with some 

 protection. 



