like shrub from the Cape; flowering from September to 

 April in a warm Green-house. It grows in sanciy peat, aad 

 is propagated in the same manner as heaths, but with much 

 less trouble. 



Eutaxia myrtifolia This is a pretty New-Holland shrub, 

 flowering from March to June. It grows in sanciy loam and 

 peat, and as it grows fast and tali, should he cut in to form 

 it into a bushy shrub. Young cuttings root in sand under a 

 glas-. 



Kenntdia rubicunda, coccinea*/irostrata, and monofihylla, 

 are Nf^w-Holland shrubby twiners, flowering from March to 

 August. 



Coronilla juncea, glauca, and -valentina, are showy yellow 

 flowered shrubs from the south of Europe, flowering the 

 greater part of the year, and growing in any sandy soil. 



Azalea indica, an Indian shrub of great beauty and fra- 

 grance. It grows in sandy turfy peat well drained, and re-< 

 quires a warm part of the Green-house. 



Efiacris grandiftora. Among the numerous shrubs im- 

 ported from New- Holland there is none more admired than 

 this. Its appearance is delicate and yet showy ; its slender 

 branches are bent over with the weight of the flowers, which 

 set so close the whole length that they almost touch eacli 

 other: they are of a tubular bell shaped form, of more than 

 an inch in length ; the tube is of a bright purplish crimson, 

 and the extreme end of each flower is of a pure white. It 

 flowers all winter and nearly all the summer, and has some 

 resemblance to a heath. It grows in a turfy, sandy peat soil, 

 and is propagated by cuttings in sand under a bell-glass.- 



Ligustrum lucidum^tke Wax Tree of China. This grows 

 in sandy loam, and is readily increased by cuttings. Its fo- 

 liage is very fine. 



Mimutus glutinosus, a shrub from California ; it flowers 

 all the year, and is of the easiest culture on any light rich 

 soil. 



Mauratidia semfierflorens, an ornamental climbing shrub 

 from Mexico, of easy culture, and does not exceed due 

 bounds in a Green-house. 



IMUTUS camfihora, glauca^ indica, fcetens, canariensis, 

 barbonia, and caroliniensis, evergreen shrubs, which grow in- 

 loam and peat, and cuttings root in sand under a bell-glass, 

 or a moist heat. The first, Laurus camphora, is the tree 

 from which camphor is manufactured ; and from informa- 

 tion I have had respecting a tree of this kind growing in 



