VII. LIST OP SHRUBS. 



not be moved until they have taken root well. They 

 like black heath mould j but do well in any garden soil. 

 These are all very ornamental shrubs ; they have none 

 of them much leaf, but the white has the most. The 

 flower comes at the ends of the branches, and resembles, 

 in form, that of the common honey-suckle. Cut out 

 dead wood, and that is all the pruning you need do. 



328. BARBERRY.- Lat. Berberis vulgaris. Fr. Fine- 

 tier. A thorny little indigenous shrub, which bears a 

 great abundance of small oblong red berries, and it is 

 for these, either for pickling, or as an ornament, that 

 the tree is planted in our gardens and shrubberies. It 

 nevertheless serves to make good hedges, and requires 

 no pruning, and is contented with any soil. Propagate 

 by sowing the seeds, or by layers (which ought to remain 

 two seasons before they are cut off from the mother 

 plant) or by suckers. There is another sort, the CHINESE, 

 Lat. Sinensis. 



329. BLADDER-SENNA. Lat. Colutea Arbor escens. 

 Fr. Baguenaudier faux Sene. A shrub of the south of 

 France, Italy and the Levant, which grows ten or twelve 

 feet high. It blows a yellow flower during the whole 

 summer, and bears the flower and the fruit at the same 

 time. Propagated by layers, or by sowing the seed in 

 rich and rather shady borders, or in an old hot-bed, 

 where they must stay till the following spring, when 

 they may be put in a nursery till the autumu, or planted, 

 at once, where they are meant to stay. Likes chalky 

 soil.- BLADDER-SENNA Oriental. Lat. Colutea orien- 

 tate. Fr. Baguenaudier du Levant. A. hardy shrub from 



