April^\ 



DECIDUOUS SHKUBS. 



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Loniceraj or more properly Caprifollum. The HoncysucMe. 

 This genus of flowering odoriferous climbing shrubs 

 are principally natives of this country : they are .all 

 equally beautiful ; but , where there is not space in 

 our city gardens to cultivate the vfhole family, it is 

 indispensable to have G.flexiiomm^ the Chinese sweet- 

 scented or evergreen; it blooms in May and Septem- 

 ber, and is a very rapid grower. C. BeJgica is also a 

 charming species; it blooms the whole summer, and 

 is very odorous. Our native C, sempervirenSy or 

 Coral Honeysuckle, is not easily surpassed; its pro- 

 fuse and brilliant scarlet flowers render it the most at- 

 tractive object in all our country gardens. C. Japbni- 

 cum is also an excellent Chinese species, with deli- 

 cate orange-colored flowers of agreeable sweetness; 

 but will not bear our winters north of the southern 

 part of Virginia. 



Passijlbray or Passion vine. There are several hardy spe- 

 cies for this latitude ; but the only very beautiful one 

 is P. incarndta, which, although it dies to the ground 

 every winter, yet will, during the summer, put forth 

 shoots from twenty to forty feet long, all covered with 

 a profusion of beautiful purple flowers. 

 There are several other climbing plants, both" curious and . 



ornamental; but our limits will not admit of farther detail. 



DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



Finish planting all deciduous shrubs in the early part of 

 the month. These plants are generally delayed too long ; 

 the leaves in many instances are beginning to expand, 

 thereby giving a cheek to the ascending sap, which we may 

 safely assert causes the death of one-third of the plants, 

 when perhaps the operator or some individual more distantly 

 concerned is blamed. 



These shrubs, if properly removed and planted at the 

 exact starting of vegetation, pressing the earth close to their 

 roots when planting (previously taking care that the small 

 fibres have not become dry, by exposure,) there will not one 

 out of fifty fail by these simple attentions. Those that are 

 late planted should have frequent waterings, and, if large, 



