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as any tree that can be nanved. It is beautiful for 

 the Green-house ; for there it, mixed with Gerani- 

 ums, blow beautifully all the winter long. As to the 

 management of roses ; the ground should be good, 

 and dug every autumn as directed far fruit trees, and 

 should be manured frequently. They should (except 

 when trained against walls or over bowers) be kept 

 cut down low ; for, when they get long stems and 

 limbs, they, like peach trees, not only look ugly, but 

 bear but few fl-owers, and those very mean ones. 

 They should, therefore, be cut to within a foot, or 

 less, of the ground ; and all dead or weak wood should 

 be pruned out close, without leaving any us^ly stubs. 



383. SIBERIAN CRAB.— This Shrub is, by 

 some, esteemed for its fruit, of which they make a 

 conserve, more, I imagine, to gratify the s?ght than 

 to gratify the palat>e. But, as a tall shrub, it yields, 

 for the time, to very few. There is the red-blos- 

 somed and the white-blossom.ed. The branches of 

 both, when in bloom, present ropes of flowers, 

 while the trunk, the limbs, the branches and the 

 leaves, are all delicate in form and in hue. 



384. SNOW DROP.— Is the earliest of all flow- 

 ers. In England it blows in January. Once in the 

 ground it is not very easy to get it out again. No- 

 thing but carrying it away, or actually consuming 

 it with fire will rid you of it. No sun, not even an 

 American sun, will kill a Snow-Drop bulb, if it 

 touch the ground. 



385. STOCK.— There are annuals and biennials 

 of this name ; and, if I were to choose amongst all 

 the annuals and biennials, I should certainly choose 

 the Stock, Elegant leaf, elegant plant, beautiful, 

 showy, and most fragrant flower; and, with suit- 

 able attention, bloom, even in the natural ground, 

 from May to November in England, and from June 



