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put away in a dry place, out of the reach of severe 

 frost, till spring. Then, when you plant the old 

 one out to blow again, you take off the young ones 

 and plant them also. They do not blow the first 

 year, and, if weak, not the second. But, in time, 

 they do ; and then they produce offsets. This is 

 the way the Hyacinth is multiplied. It is a fine 

 and fragrant flower ; it blows early, and will blow 

 well even in glasses in a room ; but better in earth. 

 A fine flower for a green-house, where it would be 

 out in full bloom while the snow was on the ground. 



358. JASMIN. Has the merit of a very delighi- 

 ful smell, and that only. Its leaf and flower are 

 insignificant. It climbs, however, and is good to 

 cover bowers. It is easily raised from cutting?. 

 See Paragraph 275. 



359. JONQUIL. Au elegant and sweet smell- 

 ing bulbous rooted plant. Propagated, and culti- 

 vated, in all respects, like the Hyacinth, which see. 



360. KALMIA. An evergreen shrub of great 

 beauty, and of several varieties, great quantities of 

 which are seen in most of the rocky woodlands 

 of this country. 



361. KILL-CALF. Mentioned in Paragraph 

 328, which see. It is a dwarf shrub, and may be 

 raised from seed, or from suckers. It is very pretty. 

 When in bloom it resembles a large clump of Sweet 

 Williams. It is so pretty that it is worth having in 

 the green-house, where it would blow, probably in 

 April, in Long Island. 



362. LABURNHAM. This is a tall and beau- 

 tiful shrub, loaded, v/hen in bloom, with yellow 

 blossoms, in chains ; whence it is sometimes called 

 the Golden Chain. I sent one out to Pennsylvania 

 in 1800 ; but, though alive now, it has never got to 

 any height, and has never borne blossoms, being 



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