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vanity supplies the florists, as well as the ship- 

 owners, with a great store of names, and auriculas, 

 like ships, are very frequently honoured with the 

 names of the original proprietor's wife or daughter. 



338. AZALIA.— That little American Honey- 

 suckle that impedes our steps when shooting on the 

 skirts of woods. It however, blows profusely, though 

 it has no smell like the English honeysuckle. 



339. BALSAM is an annual and a most beautiful 

 plant, with great abundance of flowers. Sow when 

 you sow Melons, at a distance of four feet ; leave 

 only one plant in a place ; let the ground be rich 

 and kept clean ; it will blow early in July, and will 

 keep growing and blowing till the frost comes, and 

 then, like the cucumber, it is instantly cut down. I 

 have seen Balsams in Pennsylvania 3 feet high, 

 with side-branches 2 feet long, and with a stem 

 much bigger than my wrist, loaded with beautiful 

 blossoms. Plant, branch, leaf, flower ; all are most 

 elegantly formed, and the colours of the flower ex- 

 traordinarily vivid and various. There are, how- 

 ever, some more double than others, and some va- 

 riegated. The seed of these should be sowed, and 

 it comes in great abundance. The flower of the 

 Balsam has no smell. 



340. BRIAR, (Sweet.)— A well known shrub of 

 the rose kind. Bows of it carefully planted and 

 pruned make very good hedges, and it will grow in 

 almost any ground, though fastest in good ground. 



341. CAMILLIA.— This shrub, which is of the 

 laurel-tribe, has lately been introduced in England 

 from Japan. It bears a flower, which, when open, 

 resembles a good deal a large full-blown rose ; and 

 these flowers, on difl^erent plants, are of difl^erent 

 colours. It is raised, doubtless, from seed ; but it 

 may be grafted on the Hawthorn ; and, I dare say, 



