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protection in the open air, they will flower profusely ; 

 the flowers will be very large, and in bloom from June 

 to October. They are deciduous, soft wooded shrubs. 



Hypericums, St. John's wort, about twenty species. 

 A few of them are very showy, and with few excep- 

 tions have yellow flowers. H. monogynum, H. baleari- 

 cum, H. floribundum, H. canariense, H. cegyptlacum, and 

 H. cochinchinense, which has scarlet flowers, are amongst 

 the best, and all of them flower freely ; five petals, fila- 

 ments many in three or five parcels. They are all of 

 very easy cultivation, and bloom generally from April 

 to September. 



Ilex, Holly, of /. aquifoKum. There are above one 

 hundred species of them in cultivation in Europe, dif- 

 fering in variegation, margin, shape, and size of the 

 leaves ; some are only prickly on the margin of the fo- 

 liage, others prickly over all the surface. In Europe 

 they are all hardy, but with us few or none of the vari- 

 eties are so. If they become acclimated, they will be a 

 great ornament to our gardens, being all low evergreen 

 shrubs. The most common and conspicuous varieties 

 are the hedgehog, striped hedgehog, white edged, gold edged, 

 and painted ; the flowers are white and small, berries 

 yellow or red; they do not agree with exposure to the 

 sun. J. Cassine and /. vomitbria have very bitter 

 leaves, and, though natives of Carolina, we have to give 

 them the protection of a Green-house. It is said that 

 at certain seasons of the year the Indians make a strong 

 decoction of the leaves, which makes them vomit freely, 

 and after drinking and vomiting for a few days, they 

 consider themselves sufficiently purified. 



