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limbs, they, like peach trees, not only look ug- 

 ly, but bear but few flowers, and those very 

 mean ones. ' They should, therefore, be cut to 

 within a foot, or less, of the ground ; and all 

 dead or weak wood should be pruned out close 

 without leaving any ugly stubs, 



383. SIBERIAN CRAB. This Shrub is, by 

 some, esteemed for its fruit, of which they make 

 a conserve, more, I imagine, to gratify the sight 

 than to gratify the palate. But, as a tall shrub , 

 it yields, for the time, to very few. There is 

 the red-blossomed and the white-blossomed. 

 The branches of both, when in bloom, present 

 ropes of flowers, while the trunk, the limbs, the 

 branches and the leaves are all delicate in form 

 and in hue. 



384. SNOW DROP. Is the earliest of all 

 flowers*. In England it blows in January. Once 

 in the ground it is not very easy to get it out 

 again. Nothing but carrying it away, or actu- 

 ally consuming it with fire will rid you of it. 

 No sun, not even an American sun, will kill a 

 Snow-Drop bulb, if it touch the ground. 



385. STOCK. There are annuals and bien- 

 nials of this name ; and, if I were to choose 

 amongst all the annuals and biennials, I should 

 certainly choose the Stock. Elegant leaf, ele- 

 gant plant, beautiful, showy, and most fragrant 

 flower ; and, with suitable attention, bloom, 

 even in the natural ground, from May to Novem- 

 ber here. The annuals are called ten-week 

 Stocks. And of these there are, with a pea- 

 green leaf, the Red, White, Purfile, and Scar- 

 let ; and, then, there are all the same colours 

 with a Wall-flower or Sea-Green leaf. So that 



