VII. LIST OF SHRUBS. 



propagated either by sowing the seeds, or by laying ; 

 and, in cultivation, it requires a fresh and rather light 

 mould 5 and, if put in the open ground, should be very 



carefully protected from frosts and cold winds.- 



SPONGE TREE ACACIA Lat. Mimosa farnesiana Fr. UAca- 



cie de Farnese, is also a green-house plant, but is rather 

 less hardy than the preceding. It comes from Saint 

 Domingo, where it grows to about fifteen feet high. Its 

 wood is white and hard, and its branches thorny j its 

 leaves are small, and shut up at the decline of the sun, 

 as do those of several of the acacias, and in August it 

 blows a small head of yellow and sweet-scented flowers. 

 Propagated in the same manner as the last. PSEUDO- 

 ACACIA, see LOCUST. 



321. ALMOND, common dwarf. Lat. Amygdalus nana. 

 Fr. Amandier nain. A hardy tree, originally from 

 Russia, growing about three feet high, and blowing a 

 pink flower in March and April. Propagated by sowing 

 in a nursery, or where they are to stay j but the best 

 sorts are obtained by grafting either on the common 



almond, or on the plum tree. SILVER-LEAVED ALMOND, 



Lat. A. argenteaFr. A. sating is a taller sort, from the 

 Levant, growing eight or ten feet high, blowing rose- 

 coloured flowers in April, and having leaves covered on 



both sides with a kind of down, of a silver colour.-* 



DOUBLE DWARF ALMOND, Lat. A. pumila Fr. A. cL Jleurs 

 doubles, is a third sort, a smaller tree than the last, but 

 with remarkably double flowers of a pale rose colour, 

 appearing in May and often again in September. All 

 these trees are cultivated in the same simple manner. 

 They are hardy, and very handsome when in flower, 



