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from the same root. Thus the Chriseis Crocea, formerly Ess- 

 choltzia Californica, is ranked in New York as an annual, but 

 in Southern California it is herbaceous and perennial. 



GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS, sometimes also called pot plants, are 

 such as in northern climates require more or less of artificial 

 heat and house protection to carry them through the winter, 

 and, in general, a return for this trouble and care is sought in 

 the flowers they are made to yield at that ungenial season. 



SHRUBS are the smaller class of woody plants, some of them 

 valued only for their foliage, as the Box ; others for their flow- 

 ers, as the Rose ; and still others, as the Cydonia Japonica, both 

 for flowers and foliage. 



CLIMBERS, to whatever class they may belong, climb either by 

 winding, as Morning-glory and the Bitter-sweet ; or by cling- 

 ing with their tendrils, as the Pea and the Grape-vine ; or by 

 striking their roots all along as they run, even into a brick 

 wall, as the Virginia Creeper and jthe Trumpet-flower. Those 

 climbers which are of woody growth are really shrubs, i. e., 

 small trees, of peculiar habit. We have therefore called them 

 Climbing Shrubs. 



EVERGREENS are such shrubs or trees as do not lose their 

 leaves in winter, whose greenness cheers that season and links 

 it with its kindlier sisters, though sometimes, in dense masses, 

 deepening its gloom. The lowly Epigaia, or trailing Arbutus, 

 and the tall-growing hemlock, are of these. 



SHADE TREES are either fruit or forest trees when used for 

 the purpose of shade, but generally the latter only are intended. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS are such as may be chosen 

 from either of the foregoing classes to beautify and form part 

 of the surroundings of a home. 



PROPAGATION OF FLOWERS, SHRUBS, &c. 

 BY CUTTINGS. 



GREEN-HOUSE AND HERBACEOUS CUTTINGS. 



Cuttings of woody plants of small growth, as green-house 

 and ordinary herbaceous plants, are made in the same manner 

 as those of large woody growth, except that they are usually in 

 leaf when the cuttings are taken off. See the following figures. 



