VII. LIST OF SHRUBS. 



the pot under a frame or a hand-glass without bottom 

 heat, and shade it from powerful sun. In the spring, 

 you will find them pushing forth ; at least, all such as 

 have struck. Give them water plentifully when they are 

 in a growing state, and sprinkle their leaves also ; and, 

 in the fall, they will be fit to pot off, when you should 

 plant them singly, in good-sized pots well drained by plac- 

 ing pot-sherds at the bottom. By layers, proceed as is re- 

 commended in Chap. VI. and graft in the manner re- 

 commended in that Chapter also, only it is usual to 

 omit cutting a tongue in the stock and the scion as there 

 recommended, because it is supposed to weaken both 

 more than they can bear j but the greater attention is 

 requisite in the tying, so that the barks of the stock and 

 the scion may not, in the operation of tying, be re- 

 moved from the point where you have placed them, I 

 will only repeat, that, when growing, and when in 

 flower, this plant requires to be plentifully watered ; and 

 that the broiling mid-day sun of summer it never likee. 



339. CATALPA Lat. Bignonia Catalpa.^r. Big- 

 nan Catalpa. This is a shrub or tree rising to the height 

 of thirty or forty feet j and it is sufficiently hardy for 

 almost any part of the south of England. Its flowers, 

 which come like those of the horse chesnut, but not 

 until August, are far more beautiful, and they are pen- 

 dulous instead of being erect. In every thing else, this 

 tree is the reverse of the hore-chesnut. Its leaf is very 

 large, of a singularly bright green, which it preserves 

 wholly unfaded through the hottest summers, and until 

 the coming of the frost. Catalpas should not be planted 

 in the shade. In very cold and wet summers they do not 



