322 THE GREEN-HOUSE CATALOGUE. 



These are valuable shrubs for the green-house^ many of 

 them flowering from Christmas to April. They are chiefly 

 from Australasia and the Cape ; but one or two are from 

 America, viz. A. glanduldsa and brachyldba, the latter a 

 perennial from Illinois. All the species thrive in loam, 

 peat, and sand ; most of them root by cuttings of the 

 young wood under a bell-glass in sand, and plunged in 

 heat. But some kinds do not root readily from cuttings, 

 and these, Mr. Sweet informs us, ' may be increased by 

 taking off" roots, as large pieces as can be spared, and plant- 

 ing them in the same kind of soil as the old plants, when 

 they should be plunged under a hand-glass in a little bottom 

 heat. Most of the kinds might be propagated by that 

 means. Bot. Cult. 126. 



GLEDrxscHiA sinensis, a frame shrub from China, grows 

 in sandy loam, and is increased by young cuttings under a 

 bell in sand. 



Cerato^nia siliqua, the St. John's Bread or Carob-tree, 

 A. R. 567i a shrub from Spain and the Levant, which grows 

 in light soil, and roots in sand under a bell-glass. Its seeds 

 (beans) in Spain are used as horse-corn, and even by the 

 common people in times of dearth. 



ROSAT.E^. 



AciE'^NA latebrosa, a Cape perennial flowering from April 

 to June, of common culture. 



Amygda^lus orientdlis, silvery-leaved Almond, a Levant 

 shrub flowering in March and April, and propagated by cut- 

 tings or grafting on A. nana. 



Pru^nus japdnica, Japan Plum, B. H. 27, a low tree, 

 flowering from March to May. 



P. prostrdta, birch-leaved Plum, B. R. 136, a frame 

 shrub from Crete, flowering in April and May. 



