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LIST OF SHRUBS. 



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370. JASMIN, common white. — Lat. Jasminum officinale. A 

 shrub of the coast of Malabar, which grows ten or twelve feet high, 

 and blows a sweet-scented white flower from July to October. 

 Propagated by suckers. Any soil suits it, but it likes a light and 

 warm one best. It is generally trained against walls or trellis- 

 work, and will there grow to a great height.-— — Jasmin, yellow 

 Italian. — Lat. J. humile. A shrub which grows four or five feet 

 high, and blows a yellow flower from July to September. Culti- 

 vated like the white jasmin. 



371. JUNIPER-TREE, or red cedar— Lat. Juniperus Vir- 

 giniana. An evergreen tree from North America that blows in May, 

 and produces a little blue berry. It grows to forty or fifty feet high, 



and delights in peat soil ; but is not very nice as to that. 



Phcenician Cedar. — Lat. J. Phcenicea. An evergreen shrub 

 from the south of Europe, which blows in April, and produces 

 a yellow berry. It grows to about six or eight feet high. 

 Juniper, the common. — Lat. J, communis.- A shrub common in 

 England, and bears a fruit of a blackish blue colour. Propa- 

 gated by cuttings and suckers, and also by seed, which comes 

 up the second year, and should be sown in garden mould mixed 

 with sand. The two foregoing should be propagated in the 

 same manner. 



372. KGELREUTERIA, panicled.--l.2it. K. paniculata. A 

 hardy shrub, ten or twelve feet high, originally from China, which 

 blows a yellow flower in August. Propagated by seed, and re- 

 quires great care for the first two or three years. It is also ob- 

 tained by cuttings planted in February in pots, and put into a 

 hot-bed of moderate heat. They take root in about a month, 

 and should be separated in the autumn . 



373. LABURNUM.— See Cytisus. 



374. IjKVRWL, or sweet-hay. — hat. Laurus nobilis. Thatcom- 

 mon evergreen which we see now in all parts of England forming the 

 underwood to high shrubberies, and the fore-ground of low ones. 

 It is a native of Italy, but is hardy enough to stand the winters of 

 the southern parts of England well, though in the North, and par- 

 ticularly if on high and exposed situations, it will not outlive a 

 very severe winter. It blows a small white flower in May ; and 

 is easily propagated by layers. It grows to ten or twelve feet 

 high, when in a sheltered situation, and is more particular as to 

 this matter than as to soil. Under the tall Scotch firs in Windsor 



