43 FLOWERING AND ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS* 



they may be planted successfully in any warm and tolerably 

 rich sandy ground. They may also be propagated by suck- 

 ers, which they throw up abundantly, especially if some of 

 the wide-extending roots be cut through with an axe. An 

 acre of these trees, planted at two feet distant each way, will 

 contain 10,890 ; at four feet distant, 2,722 ; and it is said 

 that no appropriation of land is more lucrative than that 

 deyoted to this purpose. The Three-Thorned Acacia Seed 

 (Gleditscliia) should be prepared in the same manner. 



Rosa, or Roses, a very numerous variety of these; some 

 reckon five or six hundred kinds. They are accounted the 

 most beautiful of Flora's productions. Perhaps a handsome 

 collection might be made of about fifty of the best sorts, 

 which, by taking ruch quantity, I suppose might be obtained 

 at about fifty cents each, under name ; and, generally, a 

 fine collection unnamed at half that amount.- No good 

 garden or shrubbery should be without them. 



Soj'bus aucuparia, Mountain Ash, or Roan tree. This 

 is a very beautiful shrub of the larger size ; the leaves are 

 ornamental ; the flowers and fruit, which are produced in 

 large bunches, are beautiful ; the fruit remains till late in 

 the Autumn ; it is a native of Europe. 



Sorbus Canadensis. This is a native of our Northern 

 frontiers and mountains ; it does not grow so large as the 

 former ; the berries are smaller and red, the former larger 

 and of an orange colour, but otherwise much resemble it. 



Spartium junceum, Genista, etc. Two or three species of 

 Broom, producing numerous bunches of yellow ilowers in 

 May and June ; the Genista, or Spanish Broom, which has 

 white flowers, is also very pretty, but not quite so hardy as 

 the former. 



Symphoria reccmosa, or Snow-berry, sometimes called 

 St. Peter's wort, a pretty little shrub ; the bunches of wax- 

 like white berries, which it produces during the whole Sum- 

 mer, give it a beautiful appearance. 



Syringa vu'garis, or common Lilac, blossoming in May, 



