VII. LIST OF SHRUBS. 



Laburnum Fr. Cytise des Alpes. A hardy and handsome 

 tree, originally from the Alps, twenty or thirty feet high, 



and blows a yellow flower in May and June. CYTISUS, 



COMMON. Lat. Cytisus Sessilifolius. Fr. Cytise a feuilles 

 sessiles. A hardy shrub of Provence, twelve feet high, 

 blows a yellow flower in May and June. HAIRY CY- 

 TISUS. Lat. Cytisus hirsutus. Fr. Cytise vein. A hardy 

 shrub of the southern parts of Europe, smaller than the 

 common cytisus, and blows a yellow flower in June. All 

 the three sorts propagated by sowing the seeds in pots 

 or in flower-beds, where they must remain until the 

 following spring, when they must be put in a nursery. 

 They grow well almost every where, producing amazing 

 quantities of blossom and of seed. They require no par- 

 ticular management, and are proper for the inner parts of 

 shrubberies. As they produce their flowers from spurs, 

 which come all along the old wood, prune no more than 

 is necessary to neighbouring trees or other things, and 

 cut out dead wood. 



348. DOGWOOD, or CORNELIAN CHERRY. 



Lat. Cornus Mascula Fr. Cornouiller mdle. A hardy 

 shrub from Austria, fifteen or twenty feet high, and blows 

 a yellow flower in February. Propagated by suckers, 



which are taken and planted early in the autumn. 



DOGWOOD, AMERICAN. Lat. Cornus Florida. Fr. Cor- 

 nouiller a grandes Jleurs. An equally hardy plant from 

 North America, but it there sometimes rises to the 

 height of forty or fifty feet. Grows at the edges of 

 woods, and blows large white and pink flowers at the 

 ends of its branches in May and June. Propagated from 

 seeds 5 and but little known in England, 



