'" , SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



392. SNOW-DROP TREE, four winged. ~L*.i. Ha- 

 lesia tetraptera. Fr. L'Halcsia d quatre ailes. A hardy 

 tree of Carolina, twenty or thirty feet high, and blowing 

 a white flower in May. Propagated by seed and by 

 layers which do not firmly take root until the third 

 year. It likes a good soil and will grow freely. 



393. SPINDLE-TREE, common. Lat. Evonymus 

 Europeans. Fr. Fusain d" Europe. A hardy shrub twelve 

 feet in height, and blows a whitish flower in May. Com- 

 mon in England. SPINDLE TREE the warted. Lat. 



Evonymus verrucosus. Fr. Fusain galeux. A hardy shrub 

 from Austria. In May blows a flower of a brownish pur- 

 ple. These shrubs are propagated by their seed sown in 

 light earth in the shade, or by ripened cuttings struck in 

 the open ground in autumn. Any soil suits them $ and 

 they suit large pleasure grounds. 



394. SPIRAEA, Hawthorn leaved. Lat. Spircea crenata. 

 Fr. Spine dfeuilles crenelees. A hardy shrub originally 

 from Siberia, about three feet high, and blows a white 



flower in June and July. SPIRAEA, Willow Leaved. Lat. 



Spiraa salici Folia. Fr. Spiree a feuilles desaule. A hardy 

 shrub from North America, about six feet high, and blows 

 a purplish red flower in July and August. SPIRAEA Ger- 

 mander-leaved. Lat. Spircea cham&drifolia. Fr. Spiree 

 ft feuilles de germandree. A hardy shrub from 

 Siberia that blows a white flower early in the spring. 

 SPIR^SA Hypericum Frutex. Lat. Spiraea Hyperici/olia . 

 Fr. Spiree a feuilles de millepertius. A hardy shrub and 



blows a white flower. From America. SPIRAEA Scarlet. 



Lat, Spiraea tommentosa. Fr. Spiree cotoneuse, A 



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