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and sunny exposure, it will grow luxuriantly, and bloom uninter- 
ruptedly until the approach of frost. It should be welcomed by 
all as a delightful inmate of the garden. 
Hydrangia. — See Hardy Shrubs, page 43. 
Illicium. — Anniseed Tree. The several species of this plant 
are very easily kept, and though not remarkably showy, are 
worth notice, on account of the strong anniseed-like fragrance of 
the foliage when bruised. I. floridanum resembles the sweet- 
scented shrub, in flower, so much so as to be mistaken for it by a 
* superficial observer. 
Jambosa vulgaris, formerly called Eugenia Jambos or Rose 
Apple, produces fruit of fragrance not unlike the rose; the foli- 
age is evergreen, and as it is a hardy green-house plant, is de- 
serving notice. 
Kennedia. A climbing plant, with evergreen leaves, and 
small pea-shaped flowers, of high colour ; some blue, others 
crimson, and scarlet. 
Lagerstrgemia ( Crape Myrtle ). An exceedingly beautiful 
plant, so hardy as almost to support the winter of the middle 
states. It may be kept in any dry, airy cellar, under the stage 
of a green-house, or similar situation ; and will generally bloom 
in profusion, and for many successive weeks, during the summer 
and early autumn ; there are several varieties, pink, scarlet, and 
purple ; the flowers are borne in spikes, which gradually expand, 
<> producing an uninterrupted succession. In the southern states, 
where this plant attains the height of fifteen or eighteen feet, 
with full round head, it is a brilliant object when in bloom. 
Linum. — There are several pretty species, of this genus; 
ascyrifolium with blue and white flowers, and tyginum, with 
large yellow flowers, are the finest; the latter is figured in the 
Fioral Magazine. 
Magnolia. — Two species of this plant require the protection 
of the house. M. pumila, and M. fuscata, are both highly 
odoriferous ; others, which are hardy, are described at page 63. 
Manettia glabra, (or cordifolia, as it is indifferently called,) 
is a climbing plant, producing scarlet tubular-shaped flowers, in 
great profusion throughout the summer. Its beauty is more 
fully developed when planted on a rich border ; from whence it 
(/ may be removed, on the approach of frost, to a place of security. 
Metrosideros. — A New Holland genus, yielding scarlet flow- 
ers, with protruding stamins, which with their peculiar arrange- 
ment, have given this plant the common name of bottle-brush. 
There are several species, of which semperjlorens is, perhaps, 
the best. 
