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The roots are propagated from offsets; that is to say the mother root, 

 while it is blowing, sends out on its sides several young ones. The old 

 root, young ones and all, are put away in a dry place out of the reach 

 of severe frost till spring. Then when you plant the old one out to 

 blow again, you take off the young ones and plant them also. They 

 do not blow the first year, and, if weak, not the second. But in time 

 they do, and then they produce offsets. This is the way the hyacinth 

 is multiplied. It is a fine and fragrant flower; it blows early, and will 

 blow well even in glasses in a room,, but better in earth. A fine flower 

 for a green-house, where it would be. out in full bloom while the snow 

 was on the ground. 



Jasmin has the merit of a very delightful smell, and that only. Its 

 leaf and flower are insignificant. It climbs, however, and is good to 

 cover bowers. It well deserves a place against the wall of a house or 

 the piers of a veranda, which it will cover in a very short time; or if 

 planted against trellis-work, or against the frame-work of a bower, it 

 will soon afford an agreeable shade, and produce its long, graceful, deep 

 green shoots in such quantities as, after covering the bower, to hang 

 down to the ground all round it, and require to be separated like a cur- 

 tain by a person entering. This plant and the common ivy, when 

 trained up a single post, with a spreading umbrella top of framework, 

 form some of the finest objects in small gardens by their pendent 

 branches, which not only hang down from a height of from fifteen feet 

 or twenty feet to the ground, but trail along it to a considerable distance, 



Jonqnil. — An elegant and sweet-smelling bulbous-rooted plant. Pro- 

 pagated and cultivated in all respects like the hyacinth, which see. 



Kalmia. — An evergreen shrub of great beauty, and of several varieties, 

 great quantities of which are seen in most of the rocky woodlands of 

 this country. 



Kill-Calf.— It is a dwarf shrub, and may be raised from seed or from 

 suckers. It is very pretty. When in bloom it resembles a large clump 

 of sweet-Williams. It is so pretty that it is worth having in the green- 

 house, where it would blow probably in April in Long Island. 



laburnuni. — This is a tall and beautiful shrub, loaded when in 

 bloom with yellow blossoms, in chains; whence it is sometimes called 

 the golden chain. It is raised from the seed as easily as Indian corn. 



larkspur. — An annual of no smell, but of great variety as to colors, 

 and when in a clump or bed presenting a great mass of bloom. There 

 is a dwarf and a tall sort. The dwarf is the best. There is a branching 

 kind which is good for nothing. 



lilac, — Desirable for its great masses of fine large bunches of bloom. 

 There is the white, the blue, and the reddish. It is propagated from 

 suckers, of which it sends out too many, and from which it should be 

 kept as clear as possible. It is an ugly shrub when out of bloom. The 

 leaves soon become brown ; therefore there should be but few lilacs in 

 a shrubbery. 



lily of the Valley, — This is the only lily that I should like to have. 

 It is a pretty little dwarf plant that thrives best in the shade, where it 

 produces beautiful blossoms of exquisite sweetness. It is a bulbous 

 root, and propagated from offsets. 



