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former it docs not blow till the second year. I 

 will remain in the ground many years, and is per 

 fectly hardy. 



355. HOLLYHOCK (Chinese.) This is a more 

 tender and far more beautiful kind than the common. 

 It is raised from seed only ; blows the second year 

 and only that year. It is, therefore, a biennial. 



356. HONEYSUCKLE. This, amongst all Eng- 

 lish shrubs, is the only rival of the Rose ; and,, if put 

 to the vote, perhaps as many persons would decide 

 for the one as for the other. Its name indicates its 

 sweetnes-s of taste, and the smell is delightful almost 

 beyond comparison. The plant is also beautiful : 

 it climbs up houses and over hedges ; it forms ar 

 bors and bowers : and has a long-continued sue 

 cession of blossoms. It grows wild in all parts ol 

 England, in many parts covering the hedges and 

 climbing up the trees. There is little variety as to 

 sorts. That which is cultivated has a larger and 

 deeper-coloured bloom, but the wild has the sweet- 

 est smell. It may be propagated from seed ; but 

 always is from cuttings ; put into the ground in the 

 spring, and treated like other wood-cuttings. See 

 Paragraph 275. 



357. HYACINTH. This is a bulbous-rooted 

 plant, and, like all the plants of that class, is peren- 

 nial. It may be rai-sed from seed; but, as in the case 

 of the Auricula and many other plants, it is many 

 chances to one, that, out of a whole bed, you do 

 not get a good flower ; and, perhaps, it is a hun- 

 dred to one that you do not get a flower to resemble 

 the mother plant. Therefore, none but curious 

 florists attempt to raise from seed. The roots are 

 propagated from ofF-sets ; that is to say, the mother 

 root, while i'tis blowing, sends out, on its sides, seve- 

 ral young ones. The old root, young ones and all, arc 



