VII. LIST OF SHRUBS. 



deciduous. It rises to the height of ten or twelve feet ; 

 bears a flower of the shape of the dwarf or round tulip. 

 It is about the size also of the flower of the dwarf tulip, 

 opens by slow degrees, and emits an odour the most de- 

 lightful that can be conceived ; far exceeding that of the 

 rose j in strength equal to that of the jonquil or the 

 tuberose, and far more delightful. In the country where 

 this tree grows, a clump of them scents a whole wood. 

 The tree continues to bear flowers for a long while, two 

 months, at the least ; for the flowers succeed each other, 

 some being mere buds, while the petals of others are 

 dropping. This tree will grow in almost any ground : 

 as it is generally found near swamps in America, I 

 thought that it required a low situation in England, until 

 I saw upon a sand-hill partly covered with heath, in a 

 garden which belonged to Sir HERBERT TAYLOR near 

 St. Ann's Hill, one of these magnolias in as vigorous a 

 btate and us full bloom as I ever saw one in America^ 

 This shrub, like the great magnolia, is raised from layers 

 in England 3 but if it were raised from seed, as it very 

 easily might be, the plants would be beyond all measure 

 finer than they generally are. None of the other mag- 

 nolias are nearly so odoriferous as this ; all but this are 

 somewhat tender : this might be in every shrubbery in 

 England with the greatest ease ; and I cannot help ex- 

 pressing my hope that it may one day become as common 

 as the lilac. 



3/3. MEZEREON. Lat. Daphne Mezereum. Fr. 

 Daphne bois gentil. A shrub of the most mountainous 

 parts of France, three feet high, and blows a rose- 

 coloured, or white flower, at the end of the winter. 

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