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very beautiful shrub, about three feet high ; blossoms early 

 in April. 



Aralia spinosa, or Angelica tree, about ten feet high ; 

 flowers in very large bunches, and continues a long season. 



Cytisus Laburnum, or Golden Chain; a most elegant 

 shrub, producing long racemes or bunches of yellow flow- 

 ers in June and July ; there are two kinds, the 

 English and the Scotch Laburnum. The Scotch is v the 

 largest, forming a pretty large shrub ; the English kind is 

 greener, more compact, and by some thought to be the 

 handsomest ; they ought to be in every garden. 



Calycanthus Floridus, Allspice, or sweet-scented shrub, a 

 native of the Southern States; the flowers are of a very 

 dark chocolate colour, and the fragrance very much resem- 

 bles ripe strawberries, easily kept when once introduced; 

 this shrub generally grows about five feet high in gardens ; 

 blossoms from May to August. 



Ceanotkus Americanus, Red root, or Jersey Tea tree, a 

 plant or two in the collection, as it flowers in profusion, is 

 worth having. 



Cercis siliquastrum, or Judas tree. The flowers appear 

 very early in the Spring, before the leaves coine out, and 

 make a fine appearance : as it grows rather tall, it is calcu- 

 lated for the back row of the shrubbery. 



Colutca arborescms, or Bladder Senna, having bunches of 

 yellow flowers in June and July, which are succeeded by 

 seeds in a kind of bladder, calculated for the back or centre 

 row of shubberies. 



Cratcegus oxyacantJta, the Hawthorn. It makes a pretty 

 appearance planted out singly in the back or centre row ; 

 the flowers are very fragrant; it is sometimes called the 

 Pride of May ; the double white, double scarlet, and single 

 scarlet Hawthorn, are extremely beautiful, and ought to be 

 in every plantation. Hawthorn hedges are much used in * 

 England, where they look very handsome when clipped ; 

 but they do not answer so well in this country, the heat 

 of our Summers causing the leaves to fall ofTearly, often in 

 July; on that account they are not much used. We have 

 several things which are better calculated for that purpose. 

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