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are far more beautiful, and they are pendulous instead of being 

 erect. In every thing else, this tree is the reverse of the horse- 

 chesnut. Its leaf is very large, of a singularly bright green, which 

 it preserves wholly unfaded through the hottest summers, and 

 until the coming of the frost. Catalpas should not be planted in 

 the shade. In very cold and wet summers they do not blow in 

 England ; they blow, however, five times, perhaps, out of six ; and, 

 if they never blowed at all, they ought to be cultivated for the 

 beauty of the leaf. It is a tree of great durability, as well in tree 

 as in timber. They may be raised from layers ; but which much 

 less trouble from seeds, which can, at all times, easily be had from 

 America, which come up the first year, and the plant attains a 

 considerable height even during the first summer. 



342. CEDAR.— See Juniper. 



343. CHERRY, the BIRD.— Lat. Prunvs Padus. A very 

 handsome -shrub, growing to the height of six or eight feet, and 

 blowing in May abundance of white flowers ; these become fruit, 

 some red and some black. It is a native of England, and is pro- 

 pagated either by seeds, suckers, or grafting on the common 



cherry ; and it is not nice as to soil. Double-flowering 



Cherry. — Lat. Cerasiis flore pleno^ is another species of cherry. 

 It produces a beautiful double flower in April, not so abundant as 

 that of the former kind, but much handsomer ; and the plant is 

 not so tall. Propagation and cultivation the same. — Dwarf 

 American Cherry. — Lat. Prunus pumila. From North America. 

 A dwarf shrub, not more than three or four feet high, blowing 

 small white flowers in April and May upon remarkably slender 

 branches. Propagate in the same manner as for the ts\o last ; 

 and give any soil or situation. These, according to their respective 

 sizes, are very desirable in the shrubbery and on the lawn, and 

 they are so handsome and so easy of cultivation that no excuse 

 can well be found for not having them. 



344. CISTUS, or BOCK-ROSE, the laurel-leaved.— L^it. C. 

 laurifolius. A hardy shrub from the south of France and from 

 Spain, about six feet high, and blows a large white flower in 



June and July. Gum Cistus. — Lat. C. Ladaniferus. A 



hardy and very beautiful shrub, about six or eight feet high, and 

 blows in June and July a beautiful large white flower, with violet 

 spots in the inside. Propagated by cuttings taken in the summer, 

 which take root in about six weeks, if well-ripened young wood be 



