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362. LABURNHAM. This is a tall and 

 beautiful shrub, loaded, when in bloom, with 

 yellow blossoms, in chains ; whence it is some- 

 times 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 continually nipped by the 

 winter. That it will grow and thrive in this 

 country is, however, certain ; for I saw two very 

 fine trees in grand bloom in the garden, between 

 Brooklyn and the Turnpike gate, last spring. 

 It is raised from the seed as easily as Indian 

 Corn is. 



363. LARKSPUR. An annual of no smell, 

 but of great variety as to colours, and, when in 

 a clump, or bed, presenting a great mass of 

 bloom. There is a dwarf and a tall sort. The 

 dwarf is the best. There is a branching kind, 

 which is good for nothing. 



364. LILAC. Desirable for its great masses 

 of fine large bunches of bloom. There is the 

 White, the Blue, and the Reddish. It is propa- 

 gated from suckers, of which it sends out too 

 many, and from which it should be kept as clear 

 as possible. It is an ugly shrub when out of 

 bloom. The leaves soon become brown. There- 

 fore, there should be but few Lilacs in a shrub- 

 bery. 



365. LILY OF THE VALLEY. This 



the only Lily that I should like to have. It is 

 a pretty little dwarf plant, that thrives best in 

 the shade, where it produces beautiful blossoms 

 of exquisite sweetness. It is a bulbous root, and 

 propagated from offsets. 



