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Tecoma Capensis, formerly Bignonia Capensis, is a pleasing 
plant, and enlivens a collection by its tubular orange flowers du- 
ring winter; figured in the Floral Magazine. 
Templetonia Retusa, and glanea, yield scarlet pea-shaped 
flowers, and deserve notice. 
Thea, the Tea of China . — Of this plant there are two varie- 
ties in our green-houses, said to be the ones grown in India for 
the production of tea : T. viridis and T. bohea. They are ever- 
green shrubs, bearing single white flowers, with yellow stamins, 
and as an object of curiosity are well placed in a collection. 
Verbena. — Almost any person who can boast a foot square of 
garden ground, or a window-ledge on which to stand a flower- 
pot, has a Verbena; and richly does it deserve its popularity. 
Constant in bloom, rich in hue, and of divers colours and shades, 
scarcely one being absent, it constitutes in itself a flowex garden ; 
it is withal so free in growth, that care or culture is almost su- 
perflous. 
Viburnum Tinus, or Laurustinus, is an evergreen shrub, not 
quite hardy enough to withstand the winter, but readily kept in 
a light airy cellar, or room, where severe frost does not enter. 
The flowers are quite fragrant and agreeable ; for nosegays in 
the winter it is particularly adapted, and cultivated by the florists 
for that purpose. 
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CHAPTER III. 
HARDY ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS.— The shrubbery 
yields a larger return for the expenditure of time and labour, 
than any other department of the garden. It demands compara- 
tively little attention, and is prodigal in its acknowledgment of 
the care bestowed. 
After the grounds have been once properly planted, observing to 
place the shrubs of vigorous growth, and stately habit, in the rear 
of the borders, and more distant quarters of the garden, giving to 
each a liberal allowance of good garden mould (for further’d irec- 
tions on transplanting, see page 16 ,) and carefully removing from 
the vicinity of its roots, the inert clayey loam thrown out of 
cellars, and which is not unfrequently in the city, used to fill up 
the garden-plot to the desired level, for on such soil it will be in 
vain to plant; little will remain to be done, further than to re- 
strain the excessive growth of some, by shortening exuberant 
shoots, thinning out superflous wood, and to encourage, by kindly 
