SHRTBBY AXD ST7B-SHETBBY PLOWEES. Ill 



children, who amuse themselves with squeezing and 

 bursting the bladder-like seed-vessels that succeed its 

 yellow flowers. Grows freely in any soil, preferring cal- 

 careous earth, from suckers or seeds. C. cruenta is a 

 prettier and smaller species. 



Bramble. — There is a double white-flowered variety of 

 the common Bramble, Rubies fruticosus, which produces, 

 from July to autumn, bunches of blossoms like miniature 

 roses. It likes rather a damp soil, and is propagated by 

 cuttings, or better by suckers. The Eubus genus flowers 

 on the wood of the previous year, which should be cut 

 out afterwards like raspberry-canes, to make room for 

 new. There is also a double pink variety, which was 

 found wild, in 1817, near Clion, in the department of 

 Indre, Prance. Double flowers of other genera are 

 occasionally met with wild, The common Ladies' Smock, 

 or Cuckoo-flower, is not rarely found wild and double 

 in meadows. B. odoratus, the Canada, or Flowering 

 Raspberry, is useful in the shrubbery and in towns, for 

 its large foliage, its late and rosy flowers, and its thrifti- 

 ness in shade. Propagate by the rhizomatous runners, 

 and cut out the old wood in spring. There is a white- 

 flowered variety. 



Broom. — The Common Broom, Genista scoparia, were 

 it rarer, would be highly esteemed as an ornamental 

 shrub, and may be so employed even as it is. Our Plan- 

 tagenet dynasty took their name from the Blanta 

 Genista. The Spanish, or White-flowered Broom, Spar- 

 Hum album, or Cytisus allies, is taller and tenderer than 

 the above, requires a light dry soil, and is propagated by 

 seeds, or by grafting on the common Laburnum, which 

 will serve as a stock for most of the hardy ornamental 

 Brooms. 



Brugmansia. — B. suaveolens, or Datura arbor ea^ is a 

 noble suffruticose Peruvian tree, unfortunately too ten- 

 der to stand our winters ; and B. sanguined has hitherto 

 been confined to our conservatories. But as new facts 

 in gardening are as valuable as new cases in medicine, 

 Mr, Robert Do wring's communication is quoted from the 



