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SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. 



[chap. 



very pretty dwarf shrub that comes into leaf more early m the 

 spring than any other that I know of, and has a leaf of singular 

 beauty. I raised, the year before last (1827), great quantities from 

 seed got from America. The seed lay two years in the ground ; 

 but the plants grew surprisingly after they came up. It blows in 

 August a minute, but pretty and pendant, rose-coloured flower, 

 which is succeeded by a white berry about the size of a cherry, 

 and which hangs on till the winter. This contains the seed 

 wrapped up in a kind of frothy pulp. Quite hardy, and very 

 easily propagated from cuttings or by parting the roots, or by 

 suckers. 



406. ST. JOHN'S WORT, large flowered,— L^t. Hypericum 

 calycinum. A hardy perennial from the environs of Constanti- 

 nople, which blows a yellow flower from June to September. 

 Propagated from seed and by dividing the roots in March. Likes 



a warm situation. St. John^s Wort, hairy. — Lat. Hypericum 



calycinum. A hardy plant common in Europe, growing three 

 feet high, and blowing a yellow flower in July and August. Pro- 

 pagates itself. Pretty for the fronts of shrubberies. 



407. STRAWBERRY-TREE, red-berried, trailing.— hail. 

 Arbutus uva ursi. A hardy shrub, common in England. Blows, 

 in March and April, a white flower, and bears very pretty red fruit 

 in June. Propagated by seed, sown as soon as ripe, in pots, and 

 exposed to the south-east till it is up. When the plants are an inch 

 high, they should be planted in little pots till they are strong enough 

 to put into the open earth. They like heath mould and rather a 

 shady situation. Makes a good show on naked banks. 



408. SUMACH, Venice. — Lat. Rhus continus. A hardy shrub 

 belonging to Italy and Austria. It is about eight feet high, and 



blows in July and August. Sumach, Virginian. — Lat. Rhus 



typhinum. A hardy and large shrub from North America. Blows 

 a purplish flower in July, propagated by seed, cuttings, and 

 suckers. Likes a light soil with a good bottom. Must be shel- 

 tered from the high winds. Its chief property is the handsome 

 red colour of its leaves in the fall, and for this it is admitted to 

 the shrubberies and pleasure-gardens of Europe. 



409. SYRINGA, common. — Lat. Philadelphus coronarius. A 

 hardy shrub of the southern parts of Europe, which grows from 

 four to ten feet high, and blows a white flow^er in June and July. 



