30 DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS. [JAN. 



and method of treating and raising all kinds of 

 flowers ; and, remembering the trouble she has 

 had with them, likes them the more. She has 

 undertaken the management of the flower gar- 

 den, which, owing to my mother's delicate state 

 of health, was much neglected last year ; and I 

 am enabled now, through her kindness, to send 

 you a larger basket of roots, &c. than my own 

 garden would have afforded. It contains some 

 very good shrubs, herbaceous roots, creepers, 

 and seeds of annuals. 



Before I tell you what to do w r ith the plants 

 I send, as you are quite a beginner, I had better 

 explain the difference between shrubs, herba- 

 ceous plants, biennials, and annuals. 



The shrub is, in general, a low, woody, 

 branching plant. Such are the rose, jasmine, 

 rhododendron, lilac, honeysuckle, &,c. ; though 

 there are many which grow to a great size, as 

 the acacia, fee. These are again divided into 



