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get good-sized flowering plants, I would, therefore, leave 

 their propagation to the nurseryman. Fine plants, full 

 of flower-buds of all the new, hardy, hybrid Rhododen- 

 drons, and Azalias, can be bought at all the principal 

 nurseries at very moderate prices, considering the time it 

 takes to get good-sized flowering plants." 



Robert Murray. 



RHODORA. 



[From the Greek word for rose^ from the color of the flowers.] 



Rhodora Canadensis.— False Honeysuckle. — This beau- 

 tiful shrub is found on the margins of swamps, and in wet 

 meadows, frequently in large masses, many yards in cir- 

 cumference, which, when in bloom, in May, present a mag- 

 nificent appearance. The flowers appear on the extremity 

 of the branches, before the leaves are perfectly expanded, 

 are of a fine purple color, and in shape somewhat resemble 

 the Honeysuckle. I have been successful with this fine 

 shrub, by taking large masses of it from the meadows, 

 with the earth attached to the roots, and planting in moist 

 soil ; also by taking the suckers, which it throws up as 

 freely as the Lilac. It will flourish without difficulty. 



RHUS.— Sumach. 



[The ancient classical name of the genus.] 



Rhus typhina. — Stag-Horn Sumach. — This is highly 

 ornamental in the shrubbery, on account of its elegant 

 compound leaves, and bunches of ricli scarlet berries. 

 The shrub, which grows to the height of twelve to twenty 

 feet, is ugly shaped, its branches being rather naked and 

 crooked. It must, therefore, be planted with other 

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