SHRUBBERIES AND F LU\V ER-G A RD E> S . 



354. DIOTIS SHRUBBY.— Lat. D, candidmima. A hardy 

 shrub from Siberia, eight or uine inches high, and h\o\\ s a yellow 

 flower in August. Propagated by layers, and cuttings will do 

 under a hand-giass. Likes a stony soil. 



ODD. TOST Ay E^lA.phiUurea-leaved.—L^t.Frphilbjreo'ides- 

 A hardy shrub from Syria, ten or twelve feet high, and blows a 

 white flower in May. Good to put against walls, for the purpose 

 of hiding them. Propagated by suckers, cuttings, and also by 

 seed. Does well iu almost any soil, if it be not too moist. 



356. FUCHSIA. — Lat. F. coccinea. A pretty tender shrub, a 

 native of Chili, where it grows to the height of three or four 

 feet. Its young branches are delicate, and of a deep scarlet 

 colour, as are the tips of its leaves ; and, throughout the summer 

 months, it blows numerous little pendant flowers, the upper part 

 scarlet, and, to\^ards the lower, becoming a bluish violet. The 

 young shoots strike freely under a hand-glass, \\hich should fre- 

 quently be tilted up a little to give air. A mixture of good loam 

 and peat suits them v,ell. The green-house is the proper place 

 for this plant, though in the summer it will do well turned out 

 into the open ground, and will even live through a moderate 

 winter in England, if cut down and carefully covered with litter ; 

 but it is generally potted in the beginning of October, and then, 

 having taken root, is placed in its winter quarters. 



357. FURZE. — Lat. Ule:c. The double furze is a ver\- hand- 

 some shrub, sweet-smelhng, an abundant flowerer and evergreen. 

 It should be had in every shrubberv, and it does not disgrace a 

 border even. Flowers in ]\Iav. Propagated bv soudng. 



358. GENISTA, or BROOM.— Lat Genista tmctoria. The 

 common yellow broom every one knows : and the eflect of it in a 

 shrubber}^ need scarcely be described. There is a white sort. 

 Genista alha, which is very handsome. These blow in May : and 

 are propagated without any difficulty from the seed. Sow them 

 in rows not far apart, in the spring, and keep them cleanly weeded 

 when they are small. The white sort is remarkably handsome 

 for a full month in the spring of the year, and should, by all 

 means, form a part of the shrubbery, though it is rather too tali to 

 be immediately in the front row. 



359. GERANIUM.— Lat. Geranium, The botanists have 

 found geraniums in almost all countries, some herbaceous, some 

 woody, some fibrous-rooted, and some tuberous-rooted ; but I shall 



