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frosts and cutting winds. The same pre¬ 
caution will also be necessary with those 
in pots, which ought to be plunged in 
coal ashes, and then hooped, to be covered 
with mats as occasion may require. 
Three years are generally consumed be¬ 
tween the laying and proper growth of 
the plants, to fit them for final trans¬ 
planting, and they are then small. Those 
which remain in the nursery should be 
removed every second season, which 
keeps them in a fit state for taking up, 
by inducing an abundance of fibrous roots. 
Seed is usually produced plentifully, and 
is occasionally employed where a large 
stock is required, but the process is te¬ 
dious and scarcely worth the trouble, 
unless new varieties are an object, in 
which case it should be saved only from 
the. most distinct already existing. It is 
generally ripe in March, and should be 
sown at once in pans of light loam, and 
if the assistance of a gentle hotbed can 
be afforded, the germination will be 
quicker. The young plants must be 
grown in the open air through the 
summer, carefully tending them with 
water, and shading them from the fierce 
sun. They do not generally require to 
be transplanted till the following spring, 
when they may be bedded out and treated 
as recommended for layers. 
Of the other species of Viburnum, per¬ 
haps the most remarkable are, V. Icevi- 
(jatum, the Cassiobury bush, an orna¬ 
mental shrub of eight or ten feet in 
height, producing pale blue flowers in 
July and August. It associates well with 
the Gueldres rose. 
V.cassinoicles , a dwarf, evergreen shrub, 
seldom attaining more than three feet in 
stature, and bearing heads of white flowers, 
somewhat like those of the Laurustinus. 
V. edule is a large deciduous shrub, 
with white flowers, succeeded by fruit, 
which, after fermentation, is eatable, and 
is made into cakes by the North American 
Indians. 
V. oxycoccos , the cranberry-like Vibur¬ 
num, resembles the last, and its fruit is 
similarly employed. 
V. lantana is a native of Britain, and 
common on calcareous soils, where ,it as¬ 
sumes the form of a straggling bush; it 
is frequent in hedgerows throughout I 
Kent, and is called by the country people 
cotton-wood. These and the remainder 
of the genus may be occasionally intro¬ 
duced in large shrubberies; and, as most 
of them succeed when planted under 
large trees, they are useful to fill the 
bottom and create a dense underwood. 
Birds are fond of the berries of the last- 
named species, and on this account it is 
often planted where they are desired to 
congregate; and, as the young branches 
form excellent withes, it is also included 
in coppices to furnish binders for faggot¬ 
ing. Another use, to which it is occa¬ 
sionally ^placed, is in the manufacture of 
birdlime, obtained from the bark of young 
branches. All the species may be pro¬ 
pagated by layers and seeds, or cuttings 
will strike beneath a handglass. 
Two species of recent introduction are 
to be regarded as very fine additions to 
this genus. They are macrccephaium and 
plicatum, both natives of China, where 
they were discovered and sent home by 
Mr. Bortune, when collecting plants in 
that part of the world for the Horticul¬ 
tural Society, in vrhose Journal they are 
thns described: “V. macrocephalum —a de¬ 
ciduous bush, covered all over with coarse, 
starry, scurfy hairs. The leaves are about 
three inches long, very exactly ovate, 
very blunt, on short stalks, slightly 
toothed, quite flat, and not unlike those 
of an apple. The flowers grow in large, 
compound cymes, which, in the neuter 
state, are as much as eight inches in dia¬ 
meter, not, however, globose, like those 
of a Gueldres rose, but rather pyramidal. 
Each flower is full If inches in diameter, 
snow-white/ 5 Mr. Eortune says, “ there 
is a tree of it in a garden in the island of 
Chusan, at least twenty feet high, which, 
in the month of May, every year, is co¬ 
vered with its snow-white blossoms. 55 
V. plicatum. “ A handsome deciduous 
bush, bearing some resemblance to the 
North American Viburnum dentatum . 
The leaves are broad, coarsely serrate, 
somewhat plaited, dark green, narrowed 
to the base, and furnished with an abrupt 
point (cuspidate). The flowers are white, 
in round heads, of the size and with the 
appearance of the Gueldres rose. 55 Erom 
their scarcity, they are yet cultivated iu 
pots, and nursed in the winter, though 
