SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



twelve feet in height^ blows, in May, a violet-coloured, 



or white, flower. LILAC, Chinese. Lat. Syringa Chi- 



nensis. Fr. Lilas hybride. A shrub originally from 

 China. Has a violet-coloured flower. Not so tall as the 



foregoing. LILAC, Persian. Lat. Syringa Persica. 



Fr. Lilas de Perse. A shrub from Persia, about eight feet 

 high, and, in May, blows a light purple flower. They 

 are all to be propagated by shoots, suckers, or layers, 

 and they like good deep soil. They are very proper for 

 shrubberies, but the first sort in particular is too tall for 

 the fronts of them. 







369. LOCUST. Lat. Pseudo- acacia. Fr. Robinier. 



A timber-tree of North America, which I mention here 

 on account of its being one of the most ornamental of 

 our tall shrubbery trees, both owing to its handsome 

 foliage, and its handsome and abundant clusters of white 

 flowers. It is propagated from seed, which is sometimes 

 ripened in this country. The plants come up the first 

 year, and, in the fall of the same year, may be planted 

 out where they are to stand $ though it is certainly better 

 to give them one year in the nursery, cutting them down 

 to within a couple or three inches of the ground every 

 time you transplant. Their only enemies are hares and 

 rabbits, and, if planted out young in a place where these 

 vermin abound, expect not to preserve your locust trees. 



370. LOBLOLLY BAY. Lat. Gordonia Lasyanthus. 

 Fr. Gordonia ti feuilles Glabres. This is an evergreen 

 which rises to the height of fifty or sixty feet in America, 

 bearing a white flower, in size and shape very much like 

 that of the dwarf or round tulip. I have never seen one of 



