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SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER GARDENS. 



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463. COMFREY-LEAVED HOUND'S TONGUE.— Lat. 

 Cynoglossum ompJialodes. A perennial plant, originally from Pied- 

 mont and Portugal, about three or four in^:hes high, and blowing 

 a blue flower in March. Propagated by dividing the tufts, in 

 which it grows, after it has flowered. Likes a fresh soil, a\id 

 requires water in very dry weather. 



464. CONVOLVULUS MINOR. -Lat. C.^ncoZor. Ahardy, 

 traihng, annual plant, from Sicily, which blows a shaded blue- 

 and-white flower in June, July, and August. Propagated by sow- 

 ing the seed in light and rather warm earth. Convolvulus 



Major. — Lat. Convolvulus purpureus. An annual climber of 

 great beauty. Grows eight or nine feet high, if it have sticks of 

 that height given it to run up, and blows, from July to Septem- 

 ber, a beautiful bell-shaped purple or white flower, in great 

 abundance, but open only in the mornings and evenings of the 

 hot months of July and August. Sow in April where it is to 

 stand, or in March in pots to transplant. Sow some in pots to 

 bring into the house ; but in no case have more than two plants 

 in one spot, as they branch out and become so heavy that winds 

 and rains tear them about and endanger other neighbouring plants 

 by their means. Slake them as soon as they are beginning to run. 

 and cut a\'\ay straggling branches that they will send out from the 

 bottom. Their height sufficiently proclaims them a plant to be 

 placed in the back part of the flower-border. 



465. CORAL-TREE. — Lat. Erythrina Crista-galli, This is 

 properly a shrub, but I put it amongst herbaceous plants, because, 

 when grown in the open air, it dies down and becomes so in effect. 

 It is so beautiful a plant, both in flower and in leaf, that every orna- 

 mental gardener should attempt to have it, at any rate. The flower 

 is something in the shape of the pea-blossom, but is as large as 

 that of the pomegranate ; is is precisely the colour of a cock's- 

 comb, and blows in August and September abundance of these 

 beautiful flowers. It is generally grown as a hot-house shrub ; 

 but I have seen it, when planted under a wall in good aspect, 

 produce better flowers and more of them than I ever saw on the 

 hot-house plants. • When planted out thus it dies down at winter, 

 and should be covered over with litter. Propagate by cuttings 

 with a joint, placed in sandy loam in a moderate and moist heat, 

 covering the cuttings with a hand-glass. 

 466. COREOPSIS, e«?'"/6'«re^/. — h. C.aitriculaia. A hardyper- 



