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them liave large double flowers. One kind of 

 cherry, the perfumed cherry-tree, (Cerasus 

 Mahaleb,) often found in gardens, has a sweet 

 scent, like that of the clematis, which is percept- 

 ible at a considerable distance. Its hard round 

 fruit is used for beads by Catholics, and the 

 wood is scented by the French, and manu- 

 factured into various articles of furniture. The 

 manufacture is carried on cliiefly at the village 

 of St. Lucie, near Commercy, and hence this 

 wood is called by the French, hois de St. Lucie. 

 With us the tree is planted lor its profuse and 

 fragrant flowers. 



" Shade-loving hyacinth, thou comest again, 

 And thy rich odours seem to swell the flow 

 Of the lark's song, the redbreast's lovely strain, 

 And the stream's tune." 



Thus sang Elliott to our woodland hyacinth, 

 which now is blooming. Our garden hyacinths 

 are much like the wild species, but are double, 

 and have a variety of tints. Some are dark 

 blue or pale azure, others are of pink, amethyst, 

 white, or primrose colours. This flower is 

 the eastern hyacinth, (^Ili/acinthus Orientale.) 

 It has long shed its beauty on the in-doors' 

 room, from the water vase, and now flourishes 

 freely in the open air. It has one advantage 

 when grown in the water above its growth in 

 the ground, inasmuch as we can there see the 

 fibres fi'om tlie root, which are almost as beau- 

 tiful as the flower itself, while, in the garden, 

 these are concealed from our view. A variety 

 of names have been given by florists to these 



