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states, climbing over hedges along the road sides, and often 

 ascending trees of considerable height. Common, however, 

 as it is, I think it worthy of being introduced into ornamental 

 grounds. It forms strong twining stalks, and grows with 

 rapidity ; the leaves are oblong, and serrated ; the flowers 

 come out in small bunches from the sides of the branches, 

 and make no show, but the numerous clusters of fruit which 

 succeed them are a great ornament ; the berries are at first 

 of an orange colour, but after frost they burst, and the outer 

 envelope spreads open and displays the red inner covering 

 of the seeds, and it is at this period that the contrast of yel- 

 low and red renders it most pleasing, particularly as it is at 

 a season when nature seems almost naked and cheerless. 



Poplar Leaved Wendlandia^ or Wendlandia fioftulifolia. 

 This is a delicate vine, with neat foliage of moderate size 1 ; 

 the flowers are very small, and of a greenish white colour; 

 the berries are of a fine red, and produced in numerous clus- 

 ters, which impart great beauty to this highly admired vine. 

 I am not aware to what height it will ascend, those I have 

 not being yet at full size but I presume they will attain to 

 10 or 12 feet in length. The shoots, although small, are 

 numerous, and the foliage very closely set. 



Jafian Globe flower, or Corcfiornsjafionicus. This ele- 

 gant shrub, which is one of the most hardy ever introduced 

 into this country, was at first treated as a tender plant. It 

 will attain to the height of seven or eight feet, forming 

 numerous slender shoots from the ground, with delicate 

 branches near their summit ; the shoots are green even in 

 the depth of winter, and at the first opening of spring numer- 

 ous flowers spring out at every joint, forming each of these 

 long slender shoots into a wreath of bloom : these flowers 

 are bright yellow and double, each resembling a double yel- 

 low rose, and it may be ranked among the most beautiful 

 and highly ornamental shrubs that have ever been seen in 

 our country. After the profuse flowering which takes place 

 early in spring, occasional scattered ones will be produced 

 during summer, towards the conclusion of which there will 

 be a considerable show of flowers, but far less abundant than 

 in the spring. This shrub is of the most easy culture, and 

 will thrive in any common garden soil without care after 

 being once planted, and will throw up numerous young 

 plants from the roots. 



Yellow Virgilia, or Virgilia lutea. This is called in Ten- 

 nessee, Yellow Wood, and by others Fustick, and forms hi 



