78 THE FAEM. 



Gnelder-Rose. — This is called here the snowball-tree. It is raised either 

 from layers or suckers. Its bloom is of short duration ; but, for the 

 time, makes a grand show in a shrubbery. The suckers of it ought to 

 be dug clean away every year. 



Heart's-Ease, or Pansy. — A beautiful little annual, which has great 

 varieties, and all of them pretty. It blows all the summer. It may be 

 sown in the fall without any care about covering the ground ; but it 

 must not come up in this country till spring. 



Hollyhock. — This is a fine showy plant for a shrubbery. There are 

 double and single, and none but the double should be cultivated. It 

 may be raised from seed or from ofisets. If the former it does not blow 

 till the second year. It will remain in the ground many years, and is 

 perfectly hardy. 



Chinese Hollyhock, — This is a more tender and far more beautiful 

 kind than the common. It is raised from seed only ; blows the second 

 year, and only that year. It is, therefore, a biennial. 



Honeysnckle. — This, amongst all English shrubs, is the only rival of 

 the rose ; and, if put to the vote, perhaps as many persons would de- 

 cide for the one as for the other. Its name indicates its sweetness of 

 taste, and the smell is delightful almost beyond comparison. The plant 

 is also beautiful; it climbs up houses and over hedges; it forms arbors 

 and bowers; and has a long-continued succession of blossoms. It grows 

 wild in all parts of England, in many parts covering the hedges and 

 climbing up the trees. There is little variety as to sorts. That which 

 is cultivated has a larger and deeper-colored bfoom, but the wild has 

 the sweetest smell. It may be propagated from seed, but always is 

 from cuttings ; put into the ground in the spring, and treated like other 

 wood-cuttings. Among the most valuable are the monthly fragrant, the 

 red and the yellow trumpet, and the Chinese twining, L. flexuosa. The 

 latter, in addition to the beauty and fragrance of its blossoms, which 

 are produced several times during the summer and autumn, is also 

 highly .desirable for the rich, dark hue of its nearly evergreen foliage, 

 and the circumstance of its not being liable to the attacks of insects, 

 which destroy the beauty of some of the other species. 



Hazel, — Corylus Avellana. — The common hazel is rather a fruit-tree 

 than an ornamental shrub; but it is sometimes grown in pleasure- 

 grounds and geometric gardens to form a shady walk. They require 

 no particular care but planting the young trees in a loamy soil, giving 

 them, if possible, a little of that rich yellow soil generally called hazel 

 loam, from its peculiar adaptation to this plant, and clipping and train- 

 ing the branches so as to make the walk form one continued bower. 



Honesty, — Hardy annual and perennial plants, which will grow in 

 any common garden soil, and only require the usual treatment of an- 

 nuals and perennials. 



Hyacinth, — This is a bulbous-rooted plant, and, like all the plants 

 of that class, is perennial. It may be raised from seed ; but, as in the 

 case of the auricula and many other plants, it is many chances to one, 

 that out of a whole bed you do not get a good flower, and perhaps it 

 is a hundred to one that you do not get a flower to resemble the mother 

 plant. Therefore none but curious florists attempt to raise from seed. 



