VII. LIST OP SHRUBS. 



trees ; because I know no instance of a shrub the seed 

 of which will not bear a flower like that of the parent 

 tree, though I am not sure that this is the case in every 

 instance. As often as they can be raised from seed, that 

 is the best, though in some instances the slowest way. 

 Cuttings and layers, and the other methods of grafting 

 and budding, do not produce a plant so vigorous and so 

 healthy as if raised from seed ; and, though a great 

 number of shrubs are propagated from suckers, these 

 suckers have all the disadvantages which was mentioned 

 when speaking of the propagation of fruit-trees. They 

 send out suckers again, and, in a few years, if left alone, 

 fill the whole ground with them. This is very con- 

 spicuous in the case of the lilac, which is always raised 

 from suckers, but which may easily be raised from seed. 

 I now proceed to give a list of the shrubs in alphabetical 

 order, with a short description attached to each. 



LIST OF SHRUBS. 



320. ACACIA, the ROSE. Latin, Robinia Hispida. 

 French, Robinia-Rose. A shrub from North America, 

 where it grows to fifteen or twenty feet high $ and, in 

 June, and sometimes again in July and August, blows a 

 rose-coloured flower hanging like bunches of grapes. 

 The leaves are larger and more rounded than those of 

 the common acacia, or locust, but otherwise are just like 

 them. The branches are covered with little prickles, 

 when of the first and second year : afterwards these fall 

 off, but this quality has given the species its name of 

 hispida, which means hairy. It is not altogether elegant 



