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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, there- 

 fore, a biennial. 



356. HONEYSUCKLE. This, amongst all 

 English shrubs, is the only rival ef the Rose; 

 and, if put to the vote, perhaps as many persons 

 would decide for one as for the other. Its name 

 indicates its sweetness of taste, and the smell is 

 delightful almost beyond comparison. The plant 

 is also beautiful : it climbs up houses and over 

 hedges; it forms arbors and bowers : and has a 

 long-continued succession of blossoms. It grows 

 wild in all parts of England, in many parts cov- 

 ering 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 sweetest 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 Para- 

 graph 275. 



357. HYACINTH. This is & bulbous root- 

 ed plant, and, like all the plants of that class, is 

 Perennial. It may be raised 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 hundred to one that you do not 



a flower to resemble the mother plant. 

 'herefore, none but curious florists attempt to 

 ise frem seed. The roots are propagated from 

 off- sets; that is to say, the mother root, while it is 

 blowing, sends out, on its sides, several young 



