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red or white blossom, yielding the most delightful 

 odours, but which must be extirpated before infant 

 hands have access to its berries : the azelia of many 

 sorts remarkable for the brightness of its flowers, and 

 deserving the best shelter, with a soil aided by sand 

 and peatmoss : white broom, of spraylike figure, and 

 almost as white as snow in a good summer the 

 seed may be gathered and sown in a flowerpot for 

 safety, but neither slips nor layers do well: lilacs, of 

 different colours, to be kept remote from the flower 

 borders; the Persian, as it grows low, may be nearer, 

 and the Siberian, lately introduced, having a better 

 leaf than the Persian and a richer profusion of blos- 

 som : laburnums, which cost nothing, growing up 

 everywhere like ash seedlings, must not be unlimited, 

 as they show too much yellow, but appear well at 

 intervals towards the outer boundary the seed is 

 poisonous: a purple beech may have a place where.it 

 can get up as a tree; in like manner, a few services, 

 the under side of the leaf, like frosted silver, being 

 most beautiful in a summer wind; and the walnut, 

 worthy to be preferred for its sweet scent and fruit, 

 perhaps, some future year ; the dwarf almond may 

 be admitted to the verge of the walk, as it rises to 

 no height : its blossom is that of the peach, but its 

 fruit is never seen except in low situations ; and the 

 tree-peony cannot have too good a place ; it is, as 

 yet, scarce and costly, and of slow growth ; near a 

 south wall it thrives well, at least three hundred feet 

 above the level of the sea, and is the most gorgeous 

 of all shrub flowers. 



Nothing more can be done for the comfort and 

 beauty of this department without due attention to 



