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SHRLUBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. 



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chosen for the purpose, and put under a hand-glass, and not 



crowded together too much. -Cistus, the white-leaved. — Lat. 



C. Albinus. A shrub of the south of Europe : is three or four 

 feet high, and blows a purplish flower in June and July. It will 

 sometimes live in the open ground, but it is best to keep some plants 

 in a house. Propagated by sowing the seed in April, in pots in a 

 hot-bed ; and when the young plants have five or six leaves, they 

 must be planted, separately, in very small pots, and put in the 

 shade, or in a shaded bed, to strike. Also propagated by cuttings 

 put under a common hand-glass in summer. This faniily of 

 plants, all of which are beautiful, has been divided by the bota- 

 nists, a numerous class now going by the name of Helianthemum. 

 All of them great blowers and extremely handsome. They do 

 well in pots, and also on rock-work : in short, nothing is hand- 

 somer than a selection of these shrubs. 



345. CLEMATIS, or VIRGIN'S BOWER.— Lat. Clematis 

 viticella, A hardy plant, common enough in gardens : it is a 

 climber, and is suited to bowers and trellis-work, or for other 

 conspicuous places. Blows a bluish purple flower in July and 

 August, and is easily propagated by layers, or from the seed, which 

 ripens in abundance, or by parting roots. Any soil will suit it. 

 See also Hungarian climber. 



346. COBEA, climbing. — Lat. Cobcea Scandens. A green- 

 house climber, originally from Mexico. Its branches will grow 

 thirty or forty yards in length, and it blows, in August and Sep- 

 tember, a large and exceedingly handsome flower^, which is at first 

 of a pale yellow, but aftferwards violet. It is, although a green- 

 house plant, as hardy as the passion flower, and, like that plant, 

 will run over a great extent of wall in one summer, blowing 

 abundance of its magnificent flowers, and ripening seeds in a pod 

 of the size of a walnut ; then, if not very well protected from frost, 

 it will die down. But it is so easily procured either from seeds, 

 or cuttings, that no one need be long at a loss, if his plant even 

 perish during the winter. In green-houses of small extent, it 

 almost prevents your having anything else, so much room will it 

 occupy in a short time ; therefore it is generally seen in the larger 

 conservatories, where it makes a great show for two months. 



347. CORIARIA, or MYRTLE-LEAVED SUMACH.— 

 Lat. C. Myrtifolia. A hardy shrub from the south of Europe, that 

 blows in April. Propagated by suckers, and also by seed. 



