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light fibry loam, and may be increased from seed, layers, 

 cuttings of roots, or shoots from the roots. 



The Ptelea, or Shrubby Trefoil, is an American shrub, 

 which also makes a variety on account of the fine yellow 

 which the leaves assume in autumn. It will grow in any 

 garden soil, and can be grown from layers and cuttings. 



The Weigela rosea and Weigela rosea alba, both 

 deserve a prominent place for the gay beauty of their 

 abundant flowers and thick bright foliage. Weigela 

 rosea bears flowers of a bright rose pink, and the other 

 is paler in the green of the foliage, and the flowers are 

 white. They are hardy, and may be grown from seed or 

 increased by cuttings taken in spring and autumn, and 

 struck under glass, or in a protected open border. It 

 grows best in sandy loam and leaf-mould, and is a good 

 plant for forcing. 



The Hiidlea globosa, or globe-flowered Eudlea, is a 

 showy shrub, which is good in foliage, and also in its 

 bright orange balls of flower, of peculiar but pleasant 

 scent. There are several other Budleas, but this is the 

 only one which is hardy, and it is sometimes killed in 

 hard winters. It requires a dry sheltered situation, and 

 may be propagated by well ripened cuttings, struck 

 under glass in September, and kept indoors until the 

 spring. The more delicate varieties may be treated in 

 the same way, only in a higher temperature. J9. Lynd- 

 leyana produces long spikes of flowers, of a fine lavender 

 purple. They are great favourites with bees. . 



The double red-flowered Pomegranate is a splendid 

 shrub for a warm situation, or to train on a wall, being 

 no less pretty in the foliage than it is beautiful in the 

 bright scarlet flower. It requires a deep loamy soil, 

 and a warm but airy situation. It blooms in August, 

 and in cutting it the twigs must be left unshortened, as 

 it is they which produce the flower. The double kinds 

 of Punica, or pomegranate, should be grafted on the 

 single, which curtails their rampant gro\vth, and makes 

 them flower better. The pomegranate may be propa- 

 gated by cuttings of the shrub or root, or layers, in a 

 light rich soil, as well as by grafts. There are several 



