SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



though their not bearing leaves and flowers at the same 

 time, is a remarkable illustration of how much flowers 

 . borrow effect from foliage. Propagate by grafting on 

 the bitter almond, or on plum-stocks, and give any 

 situation and almost any soil. Cut out dead wood when it 

 occurs, and that will be all the pruning necessary to 

 these plants. 



322. ALL-SPICE, Carolina. Lat. Calycanthus Floridus. 

 Fr. Calycanthe de la Floride. A hardy and exceedingly 

 odoriferous shrub of Carolina, eight feet high, and 



blows a ruddy brown flower from May to August. 



FRUITFUL CALYCANTHUS. Lat. C. fertilis. Fr. C. fertile. 

 A hardy shrub of North America, three or four feet 

 high, and blows a reddish brown flower from May to 

 August. Both sorts propagated by layers j but, as they 

 take root with difficulty, it is best not to remove them 

 until the third year It likes a deep and fresh soil, or 

 still better, heath-mould 3 and should not be quite ex- 

 posed to the sun. If propagated from seed, it should 

 have artificial heat to bring it up, otherwise it lies two 

 years in the ground. 



323. ALTHEA FRUTEX. Lat, Hibiscus Syriacus.Fr. 

 Ketmie desJardins. A beautiful shrub. A native of Syria, 

 the Levant, and North America, and of which there are 

 four varieties, the red, the purple, the white, and the striped. 

 It is a hardy late plant, coming into leaf late in June, 

 and blowing throughout August and September. The 

 flower comes at the side of the last year's wood as 

 well as on the present year's wood j and its form is 

 very much that of the Lavetera. It grows to eight or 

 ten feet high, generally, in America, and will grow quite 



