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continually nipped by the winter. That it will 

 grow and thrive in this country is, however, cer- 

 tain ; for I saw two very fine trees in grand bloom 

 in the garden, between Brooklyn and the Turnpike 

 gate, last spring. It is raised from the seed as 

 easily as Indian Corn is. 



363. LARKSPUR.— An annual of no smell, but 

 of great variety as to colours, 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 brancjiing kind, which is good for nothing. 



364. LILAC. — Desirable for its great m.asses of 

 fine large bunches of bloom. There is the White, 

 4he Blue, and the Reddish. It is propagated from 

 tuckers, 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. 



365. LILY OF THE VALLEY.— This 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. 



366. LOCUST.— Well known, and sufficiently 

 noticed in Paragraph 329. It may be raised from 

 suckers ; but best from seed, which always makes 

 the straighest trunk. 



367. LUPIN. — A species of pea or tare, and fre- 

 quently cultivated in the fields, and eaten in soup 

 and otherwise, by the Italians, and in the South of 

 France. It grows, however, upon a stiff stem, and 

 is upright, and branches out, like a tree in minia- 

 ture. There is a great variety of sorts, as to colour 

 of flower as well as to size of plant. The Yellow 



