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with great rapidity, and is a more beautiful vine than either 

 of the preceding, and may be applied to the same purposes. 

 Being a native of the southern states, it will not support so 

 great a degree of cold as the two preceding ones ; and al- 

 though it withstands the winters of Long-Island, it is doubt- 

 ful if it would succeed much further north. It is sometimes 

 called Pepper Vine. 



Witch Hazel, or Hamm.am.slis virginica. This forms a 

 branching shrub, of from four to five feet iq height ; it pro- 

 duces its yellow blossoms i;i autumn ; they have no great 

 beauty, and it is only the time of flowering that renders them 

 worthy of notice ; the foliage has nothing particularly at- 

 tractive, and only serves, by being profuse, to form a dense 

 shrub. 



Privet, or Prim. Ligustrumvulgare. This shrub is ge- 

 nerally known, and was formerly greatly cultivated for 

 hedges in this country, and is still so in many parts of Eu- 

 rope. The hedges formed of it are beautiful in the ex- 

 treme, arising from its fine myrtle-like foliage, and its abund- 

 ant clusters of berries in autumn and winter; and, when the 

 sub-evergreen variety is used for this purpose, it possesses 

 the advantage of retaining much of its foliage during the 

 winter season. When planted separately, as ornamental 

 shrubs, they have an interesting appearance, and it is only 

 their being common which causes them to be less often 

 used for this purpose. There are several varieties, viz. 



Common Black Berritd. 

 White, or Yellow Berried. 

 Narrow Leaved, 

 Variegated Leaved. 

 Evergreen. 



The Privet will thrive even beneath the shade and drip of 

 trees, and amid the smoke and confinement of cities. It 

 flourishes best in a moist situation, but seems to accommodate 

 itself to almost any soil. It has been wrongly considered by 

 some as a native of this country, to which it was long since 

 introduced from Europe. 



Honeysuckle. Under this head are a large number of 

 species, which, by former arrangements, were all of the ge- 

 nus Lonicera, but, by modern changes, they have been 

 placed under several heads as different genera. I will pro- 

 ceed to describe them in such manner as I consider will be 

 best understood by the reader. 



