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SJiRUliBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. 



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Christmas Rose. White, single. Blows a flower about the size of 

 half-a-crown. Leaves small, sawed, oval. Plant takes its name 

 from its black tuberous root. Blows in open borders at Christmas 

 and January. It will grow well in pure air, and situation mode- 

 rately moist and soil not manured. The flower first opens white, 

 and often becomes pure green. Part roots in autumn. Grows eight 

 or ten inches high. — -Hellehorus Hyemalis — (Winter Aconite), 

 — See Aconite, 



500. HENBANE, ^oZ(ie«-j^o26-ere<i. — Lat. Hyoscyamus aureus. 

 Flowers most part of the summer, but never ripens seeds in Eng- 

 land. Should be kept in pots and sheltered in winter. A hand- 

 some light yellow flower, with dark purple at bottom of the petals ; 

 leaves jagged and hairy. Propagate by cuttings planted in pots, 

 stood in a shady border about August or beginning of September. 

 Grows twenty inches in height, and lasts four years. 



501. HOLLYHOCK, Chinese. — 1^21. Althcea rosea. A hardy 

 biennial plant from China, about six or eight feet high, and blows, 

 from July till September, a flower that is red, pink, white, or a 

 yellowish colour. Propagated by sowing seed in the open earth, 

 about the end of June or July. They may be transplanted in a 

 month after they come up. Do not, generally, blow the first year. 

 Like good substantial mould, and a ^^ arm situation. The common 

 hollyhock of the gardens, and which is ranked amongst biennial 

 plants, will last much longer than two years ; but, after the fourth, 

 is not so fine. It requires good rich mould, and will then come 

 to the height of ten or twelve feet ; is of almost all colours, blows 

 abundantly, and is easily raised from the seed, but its great height 

 and robustness mark it out for a shrubbery, rather than a border 

 plant. Keep it staked, or, towards autumn, the high winds, assist- 

 ing its own weight, will tear it about sadly, and it does much 

 mischief often in its fall. 



502. HONEY-SUCKLE, French.— lja.i Hedysarum coro- 

 narium. A hardy biennial plant, originally from Spain and the 

 south of France, about two feet high, and has a red flower in July 

 and August. Propagated by sowing seed in the spring, in light 

 garden mould, and transplanting the plants into the place where 

 they are to grow, in the autumn. 



503. HONESTY, or moon-wort. — Lat. Lunaria annua. A 

 hardy annual plant of Provence, growing two or three feet high, 

 and blowing a flower of a reddish violet, or blue colour, in June and 



