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SIIIIUEBEKIES AND FLOWER-G AR PENS. 



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blowing a -svhite flower in June and July. Red-flowered. — 



Lat. A. nudiflora^ is a hardy shrub, also from North America, 

 about three feet high, and blows in May and June. Yellow- 

 flowered. — Lat. A. pontica. A hardy shrub, found near the Black 

 Sea. It is about three feet high, and blows in May. Propa- 

 gated by layers or by suckers, which should not be moved until 

 they have taken root well. They like black heatli mould : but do 

 well in any garden soil. These are all very ornamental shrubs ; 

 they have none of them much leaf, but the white has the most. 

 The flower comes at the ends of the branches, and resembles, in 

 form, that of the common honey-suckle. Cut out dead wood, 

 and that is all the pruning you need do. 



330. BXRB^'RRY.—l^2it.Berlieris vulgaris. A thorny, indi- 

 genous shrub, which bears a great abundance of small oblong 

 red berries, and it is for these, either for pickling, or as an orna- 

 ment, that the tree is planted in our gardens and shrubberies. It 

 neverthel'ess serves to make good hedges, and requires no pruning, 

 and is contented with any soil. Propagated by sowing the seeds, 

 or by layers (which ought to remain two seasons before they are 

 cut oft' from the mother plant) or by suckers. There is another 

 sort, the Chinese, Lat. Sinensis. 



331. BLADDER-SEXXA.— Lat. Colutea Arhorescens. A 

 shrub of the south of France, Italy, and the Levant, which grows 

 ten or twelve feet high. It blows a yellow flower during the 

 ^vhole summer, and bears the flower and the fruit at the same 

 tune. Propagated by layers, or by sowing the seed in rich and 

 rather shady borders, or in an old -hot-bed, ^^here they must stay 

 t:ll the following spring, when they may be put in a nursery till 

 the autumn, or planted, at once, where they are meant to stay. 



Likes chalky soil.- Bladder-Senna Oriental. — Lat. C. ori- 



entalis. A hardy slirub from the Levant, about six feet high, blows 



a vellowish red flower in June and July. Bladder Senna, 



scarlet-flowered . — Lat. C. frutescens. A hardy shrub, originally 

 from Africa, about four feet high, and blows in July. These two 

 latter are propagated in the same way as the tirst, and are equally 

 hardy, and like the same soil. 



332. BLADDER-XUT, /re-/eaiT6?.-Lat. Staphylea pinnata. 

 A hardy shrub, common in England, about flfteen or twenty feet 



high, and blows a white flower in April, May, and June. Blad- 



DER-XiT, three-lcared.—h-d{. S. frifolia. A hardy shrub from 



