SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



land 5 six or eight feet high, and blows a pretty 

 odoriferous white flower in June and July. Propagated 

 by cuttings, layers, and seed. Does well in any soil or 

 situation. It is generally used for low hedges in gardens 

 and pleasure grounds, where it is suitable j and, when 

 white and red roses are planted with it, makes as pretty 

 a fence as can be conceived. 



385. PSORALEA, bituminous. Lat. Psoralea bitumi- 

 nosa. Fr. Psoralea bitumineux. A green-house shrub of 

 the south of France, about three feet in height, and 

 blows a blue flower during the whole of the summer. 

 It will sow itself when in a strong earth, and likes a 

 warm but airy situation. 



386. REST-HARROW, the purple-Jlowered shrubby. 

 Lat. Ononis fruticosa. Fr. Bugrane ligneuse. A shrub of 

 the Dauphine" mountains, and fit for borders of spring 

 shrubs. It grows two or three feet high, and blows a red 

 flower from June to October. Propagated by sowing 

 the seeds in beds of light earth, but the plants must be 

 put in pots, and sheltered from the frost for two years, 

 when they will be strong enough to stay in the open 

 earth. Layers will root too. 



387. ROSE. Lat. Rosa. Fr. Rose. Any eulogy of 

 the rose would be childish, and it would not be much less 

 childish to insert a catalogue of roses of more than a 

 thousand in number, from the lists of the florists of 

 France and England. The roses that might content any 

 man not a professed florist, are the following. 1st. Pro- 

 vence, white and red. 2d. Moss Provence, white and red. 

 3d. Damask. 4th. Velvet. 5th. Striped. 6th. Maiden's 



