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advantage of our gardens. Its early bloom, and deep green stems 
and leaflets, make it a pleasing object. In the middle states it is 
sometimes disfigured by the severe weather. S. junceurn, the Spa- 
nish broom, produces white flowers, and is likewise ornamental. 
Steuartia.— Two species, the malocondendron and penta- 
gyna , both yield showy white flowers, one with purple anthers, 
the other with yellow ; they continue in bloom many weeks, and 
merit notice, but being natives are but little known ! fine speci- 
mens are growing at Bartram’s and Landreth’s nurseries. 
Styrax. — There are several shrubs of this genus, which flower 
freely, and from their moderate growth, suited for town gardens. 
S. grandifolia and S. lavigatum , are the most prominent. S. 
officinale is a low tree, with slender branches, flowers in racemes, 
from their sides. Storax is obtained from this tree in Asiatic 
Turkey. They all succeed in good garden soil, but flower more 
fully in an open airy situation. 
Symphora racemosa, Snowberry . — This is one of Lewis & 
Clark’s plants, and attracted much notice on its first introduction ; 
it is now widely diffused, and known to all. The first plants 
were grown from seed by the late Mr. McMahon, the author of a 
useful work on gardening. 
Syringa, Lilac . — The cut-leaved Persian, persica lacineata, 
and the white Persian, persica alba , yield pretty delicate flowers 
in pendulous clusters: the perfume is also delicate and highly 
agreeable. 
Virburnum opulus var roseum. — The Snowball is endeared to 
many of us by the recollections of childhood, and on that account 
will secure a niche, which might be filled by a more brilliant 
flower. All that it requires is room and air : its hardy habit will 
be its own protector. 
CHAPTER IV. 
HARDY DECIDUOUS TREES. — The descriptive catalogue 
of Deciduous Trees, (that is such as shed their leaves in autumn,) 
has been drawn so as to embrace a portion of nearly all the pro- 
minent genera ; and from the character as appended to each, it 
may be seen which are the most suited to the lawn and plea- 
sure ground, and which the street. Many of them are fully 
known to country residents ; but as this work, unpretending as 
it is, will probably get into the hands of persons in every loca- 
tion, it has been thought advisable to describe the native as well 
as foreign kinds. 
Shrubs and flowers, with their varied hue and form, afford us 
