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the extremities, as it is sure to do, use the knife 

 annually, and cut it back frequently. When it gets 

 barren below cut it clean down, or layer it ; these layers 

 will grow, and fill up below speedily. 



The Bay. 



The Bay-tree is a most useful and beautiful evergreen 

 shrub, suitable for all classes of screen and shrubbery 

 ornamentation. It is not, like the common Laurel, apt 

 to get out of order, but maintains a feathery state of 

 foliage at all ages down to the ground. It grows 

 thick, and consequently is admirably adapted for 

 screens in all kinds of places that are disagreeable to 

 the eye ; and as it gives out a lovely fragrance to the 

 touch, it is a most desirable shrub to plant in order to 

 hide water-closets, ash-pits, &c, or to form an inner 

 hedge as a break in all kinds of places. It will bear a 

 moderately rough usage, and the knife may be used 

 freely. 



It may be propagated by seed freely, and by layers 

 of the last season's growth. The seeds should be 

 gathered in the late autumn, when they are black, and 

 sown at once in drills 3 inches deep, in a light sandy 

 soil. The seedlings will all appear in the following 

 spring, and may remain two years in the seed-bed, 

 after which they should be transplanted in beds or 

 rows 1 foot by 1 foot 6 inches asunder, where they may 

 stay until planted where they are to finally remain. 



The Laurestine [Viburnum Tinus). 



Viburnum is the genus, Tinus the species. It has 

 many varieties, all of which are well known to be the 

 most beautiful flowering evergreen shrubs we possess of 

 a hardy constitution. 



The propagation of this shrub is of the easiest de- 

 scription. It may be multiplied by cuttings, by layers, 

 and by seed ; by cuttings of the last year's growth, 

 ripened in the autumn under a handlight in a shady 



