MAY. 



onamental ; the foliage is rich, and the form agree- 

 able. They require similar treatment in general 

 a sheltered situation shaded from the noonday sun, 

 heathy soil, sweet and dry, taken from the skirts of 

 a bog, or sandy peat obtained from a mountain side, 

 (where water never stands,) and such as is mixed 

 with fine white sand. This should be laid sixteen 

 or eighteen inches deep, to receive them. Should 

 the season prove hot and dry, they must be kept 

 moist by watering ; but much of this trouble may 

 be saved by laying a coat of moss round them. To 

 describe the varieties would be endless, as they are 

 multiplied every day by hybridizing. One, however, 

 lately introduced from Nepaul the Rhododendron 

 arboreum must not be overlooked. 



This is an evergreen tree, thirty or forty feet high, 

 and crowned with bunches of either scarlet or white 

 flowers ; it is one of the most beautiful vegetable 

 objects imaginable at the base of the snow-clad moun- 

 tains of its native country. In Ceylon, near Adams' 

 Peak, it is also found ; and it thrives well in this 

 country, flowering here, and bearing our winters, 

 (that is, of Ireland,) though not those of England, 

 without injury. 



THE ROSE ACACIA. 



" Smiling there, 



The Acacia waves her yellow hair, 

 Lovely and sweet." 



A native of Virginia, makes long straggling shoots, 

 and is fortified with straight spines, like those of the 

 Raspberry. It bears a profusion of rose-colored 

 flowers, in pendulous branches, six or eight inches 

 long ; it requires staking, as it is brittle, but no other 

 peculiar treatment. 



