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Miles. — The Latin generic name of the common Cur- 

 rant and Gooseberry bush is now popularly used by 

 gardeners to indicate the species with showy flowers and 

 worthless fruit, mostly from California. B. sanguineum 

 is widely spread, as is its variety with double flowers. It 

 likes shade and a moist peaty soil. The Flowering 

 Gooseberry, B. aureum, has golden-yellow flowers with 

 bright red anthers. B. pahnatum has longer flowers than 

 the above. Between this and B. sanguineum, a hybrid, 

 B. Gordonianum, with sterile nankin-coloured flowers, 

 is supposed to have been originated. B. malvaceum, 

 Mallow-leaved, and B. speciosum or fuschio'ides, Fuschia- 

 flowered, and B. ceremn, Wax-leaved, floridum, multi- 

 florim, and punctatum, are all equally hardy with the 

 above. The ornamental Bibes do not bear indiscreet 

 pruning, especially at bottom: they do much better 

 grown as bushes than as standards, and require to have 

 their wood thinned out rather than shortened. They are 

 increased without difficulty by suckers, layers, and cut- 

 tings ; more slowly and more uncertainly by seeds. The 

 Flowering Gooseberry likes a drier and more gravelly 

 soil than B. sanguineum. When 'grown in pots and 

 greenhouses, the flowers lose much of their fulness of 

 colour, which requires the open air to reach its attainable 

 depth and richness. 



Bose — Bosa. — Multitudinous in species, endless in 

 variety. For any one in search of a floricultural fancy or 

 hobby-horse, perhaps no better protege can be recom- 

 mended than the genus Bose to take into favour. For, 

 independent of all historical and poetical associations, and 

 forgetting its sweet inoffensive perfume and its medicinal 

 virtues, the Bose affords a subject for rivalry and exhibi- 

 tion, with great diversity of form, colour, habit, and con- 

 stitution. Although it is easy for those who have few 

 horticultural appliances, to form a flue collection of hardy 

 kinds, others, whose means put them in possession of 

 frames, hothouses, and greenhouses, may extend their 

 lists by tender sorts, equally charming and more rare, — 

 may anticipate the summer's bloom, by forcing; may 



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