VII. FLOWERS. 



408. ZIZYPHUS, or Christ 's-thorn. Lat. Paliurus 

 aculeatus. Fr. Paliure epineuse. A hardy shrub from the 

 south of Europe : blows a yellow flower in June and 

 July. Propagated by suckers and cuttings, under a 

 hand-glass, as well as by seed. Does well in any soil. 



409. It is not right for me to put this list of Shrub* 

 out of my hand without observing that I, by no means, 

 give it as a complete botanical catalogue. I do not 

 write for the curious in botany, but for the use of those, 

 for the practical application of those, who have the 

 means and the desire to make pretty spots for their 

 pleasure. I might have inserted the names of a great 

 multitude of trees and of shrubs which are very curious, 

 but an account of which would have been wholly out of 

 place in a work like this. 



FLOWERS. 



. 

 41O. THESE are annual, biennial, and perennial j or 



fibrous, tuberous, and bulbous. The list that I give below 

 will consist of some of each of these, but they will be ar- 

 ranged alphabetically, and not according to the above 

 distinguishing characters. These are called herbaceous, to 

 distinguish them from shrubs which are ligneous, or 

 woody. And, in their uses, it may be said that the one 

 is the flower of the shrubbery, and the other the flower 

 of the border. 



