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348. CURRANT (the golden).— Lat. Bihes aureum. A little 

 shrub, very much resembling the black-currant in wood and in 

 leaf, but blowing in April a handsome bunch of rich red flowers, 

 which hang down in the form of a bunch of red currants. Quite 

 hardy, and increased by layers or cuttings. 



349. CYPRESS-TREE.— Lat. Cupressus Sempervirens.—A 

 hardy shrub from the Levant ; grows fifteen or twenty feet high, and 

 blows a yellow blossom in May. The wood is hard, and of a red 

 colour, with a very sweet scent. 



350. CYTISUS, or LABURNUM.— Lat. C. Laburnum, A 

 hardy and handsome tree, originally from the Alps, twenty or thirty 



feet high, and blows a yellow flower in May and June. 



Cytisus, common. — Lat. C. Sessilifolius. A hardy shrub of 

 Provence, twelve feet high, blows a yellow flower in May and 



June. Hairy Cytisus. — Lat. C. hirsutus. A hardy shrub 



of the southern parts of Europe, smaller than the common 

 cytisus, and blows a yellow flower in June. All the three sorts 

 propagated by sowing the seeds in pots or in flower-beds, where 

 they must remain until the following spring, when they must be 

 put in a nursery. They grow well almost everyw^here, producing 

 amazing quantities of blossom and of seed. They require no 

 particular management, and are proper for the inner parts of 

 shrubberies. As they produce their flowers from spurs, which come 

 all along the old wood, prune no more than is necessary to neigh- 

 bouring trees or other things, and cut out dead wood. 



351. DAPHNE {Cneorum). — A handsome little evergreen from 

 Switzerland. Blows a pretty bunch of small purple flowers in 

 April and May. Is hardy, and propagated by grafting ; but it is 

 not fit for much but the fronts of borders, or for rock-work. 



352. DOGWOOD, or CORNELIAN CHERRY.— Lat. Cor- 

 nus Mascula. A hardy shrub from Austria, fifteen or twenty feet 

 high, and blows a yellow flow^er in February. Propagated by 



suckers, which are taken and planted early in the autumn. 



Dogwood, American. — Lat. C. Florida. An equally hardy 

 plant from North America, but it there sometimes rises to the 

 height of forty or fifty feet. Grows at the edges of woods, and 

 blows large white and pink flowers at the ends of its branches in 

 May and June. Propagated from seeds ; and but little known 

 in England. 



353. DIERVILLA.— See Honeysuckle. 



