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by the prefix "American." — The plant has no relation- 

 ship with spice-bearing trees. The French name it 

 Arbre aux Anemones, Anemone-tree; for its reddish- 

 brown flowers are not dissimilar, in shape, to double 

 Anemones. Unlike them, they exhale an odour which 

 resembles melon and ripe apple combined. It is a twiggy 

 shrub, with deciduous foliage, suitable for verandahs or 

 rustic porticos, thriving in a mixture of light loam and 

 heath-mould, and worthy of a warm sheltered corner. 

 Propagate by suckers, or by layers half-cut through 

 behind a joint, which should remain in the ground a 

 couple of years. There are varieties of this Anemone- 

 tree. C. occidentalism of Dr. Lindley, is a robuster 

 shrub, with broader leaves, larger brick-red flowers, 

 hardier than the preceding, and less nice as to soil and 

 aspect. 



Azalea. — A large and beautiful genus, which must be 

 treated as what are called American plants, i.e.. grown in 

 heath-mould, with a greater or less admixture of sandy 

 loam, in somewhat shady and sheltered situations, where 

 they are never very moist nor very dry. They bear trans- 

 planting (with the ball of earth attached to their roots) 

 and forcing well. In the American bed in the open 

 garden, the hardy species are valuable for their early 

 blooming in spring, and their handsome bouquets of 

 brilliant flowers. They have the defect of being rather 

 thin and naked, running up bare and spindle-shanked, 

 even if they did not put forth their flowers, in various 

 shades of yellow, white, and red, before the full develop- 

 ment of their leaves. They are propagated by offsets, 

 by layering, and grafting. From seeds, which are hybri- 

 dized with facility, numerous varieties are obtainable. 

 Hardy species of Azalea are viscosa, glauca, nucliflora, 

 and calendirfacea, all from North America. A. Pontica, 

 with yellow blossoms, comes from the Caucasus. All 

 out-door American plants are best grown in a compart- 

 ment of the garden that is specially devoted to them. 



The Chinese Azaleas are greenhouse plants. Their 

 extreme beauty is sufficiently attested by a reference to 



