SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



with a white dust. Propagated by suckers, or by seed 

 sowed in pots. 



"337. CAPER BUSH. Lat. Capparis spinosa.Fr. 

 Cdprier de Provence. A climber, originally of Provence 

 and the environs of de Grasse and Toulon. It grows 

 three or four feet high, and blows white flowers in 

 abundance in May and June. Propagated by seed or by 

 layers, but, as it is tender, the sure way to make layers is 

 to cover the stump with earth, and then the shoots 

 which come immediately from it take root easily. It is a 

 proper green -house plant. 

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338. . Lat. Camellia Japonica. Fr. 



Camellier du Japan. A very beautiful evergreen green- 

 house shrub, which blows in February and March, 

 flowers double, semi-double, and single ; and there are 

 the red, red-and-white, pure white, and the blush, with 

 various others that have been procured by art. This 

 plant, though strictly speaking, a green-house plant, may 

 be brought to grow and blow in the open ground, if it be 

 planted under a southern wall, and sheltered in the 

 winter by mats or other covering. It likes a good rich 

 soil, though it is the practice of the great florists to grow 

 it in a mixture of peat and good garden mould, to which 

 some add a small proportion of sand. It is not difficult 

 of propagation either by cuttings, layers, or by grafting : 

 if by cuttings, take off, in August, ripened shoots of the 

 preceding year's growth, to which you will let there be 

 three buds. Plant a dozen or so in a pot of six or eight 

 inches diameter filled with sand or sandy loam. Keep 



