48 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



GUELDER-ROSE. 



This is called the Snow-ball tree. It is raised either 

 from la)'ers or suckers. Its bloom is of short duration ; 

 but for the time makes a great show in shrubbery. The 

 suckers of it ought to be dug clean away every year. 



HOLLYHOCK. 



This is a fine showy plant for shrubbery. There are 

 double and single, and none but the double should be 

 cultivated. It may be raised from seed, or from offsets. 

 If the former it does not blow till the second year. 



HONEYSUCKLE. 



Its name indicates its sweetness of taste, and the smell 

 is del'ghtful almost beyond comparison. The plant is 

 also beautiful : it climbs up houses and over hedges ; it 

 forms arbors and bowers. It may be propagated from 

 seed ; but always is from cuttings ; put into the ground 

 in spring, and treat like other wood-cuttings. 



* HYACINTH. 



This is a bulbous-rooted plant, and, like the plants of 

 that class, is perennial. It may be raised from seed. 

 The roots are propagated from off-sets; they do not blow 

 the first year, and if weak, not the second. 



ROSES. 



It is the queen of flowers. All roses may be propa- 

 gated from seed ; but as the seed seldom comes up till 

 the second year, and as the plants come to perfection 

 slowly, the usual mode of propagation of all sorts, except 

 the China rose, is by suckers. These come out near old 

 stems, during the summer ; they are dug up in the fall 

 and planted out. In the spring they are cut down near 

 to the ground, and the next year they blow. 



