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kind. There is a weeping- variety, which forms a most grace- 

 ful and ornamental tree, when grafted standard high. They 

 are partial to a dry subsoil. Flowers in May. 



There are many other shrubs which ought to be included 

 in this list ; such as the Amelanchiers, Pavias, Spiraeas, Py- 

 ruses. Lilacs, &c., &c., but we have already extended our 

 limits, and must defer them to another opportunity. 



II. Evergreen Shrubs. 

 Growing fi'om two to six feet high. 



41. Rhododendrons, (R/ioc/oc?e;?c?row 5/?. a??c?2;«r.) We have, 

 from time to time, said so much in favor of the general intro- 

 duction of this splendid evergreen shrub, into our gardens, 

 that we shall not extend our remarks here. 



The catmcbieiise and maximum., our two native species, de- 

 mand a place in every shrubbery : but preeminently beautiful 

 are the English hybrids, produced from the seeds of these, 

 and the foreign kinds. They are perfectly hardy, thrive 

 freely in a well prepared soil of loam and leaf mould, and dis- 

 play their heads of briUiant flowers, during the month of June. 

 When they become more plentiful in the nurseries, we hope to 

 see them planted in every garden. 



42. Laurel, {Kdlmm latifolia.) This most elegant of all 

 evergreen shrubs, though so common throughout the State, is 

 rarely seen under cultivation. In Medfield, and at Coh asset, 

 and near Newburyport, and Lowell, it grows abundantly. 

 Mr. Emerson, in his Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Massa- 

 chusetts, says, that in "a rocky pasture of several acres, near a 

 pond, in Westboro', it forms large close clumps, or islets, in- 

 tersected by plats and alleys of grass. In June and July, 

 when every one of these innumerable green islets, is covered 

 with white or rose-colored flowers, and the cattle are feeding 

 on the grass, or lying under the few oaks which are scattered 

 through the pasture, — the whole, with the lake and its fringe 

 of trees, is worth going out of one's way to see." 



It is impatient of removal from its native habitat, and the 

 only way to possess it, is to raise it from seeds. In this waj'', 

 the bushes are dwarf and stocky, and will bear removal, even 

 when of large size, as safely as a currant-bush. The soil 

 should be composed of loam and leaf mould, or peat earth. 



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