SECT. VI. BRITISH TREES AND SHRUBS. 35

111. CLEMATIS Filalha. Traveller's Joy. —A beautiful creepingshrub icry useful to the farmers for making shackles for gates andhurdles, or witlis for tying' faggots and other articles. Wh- never thisplant is found in the hedges, &c. it is a certain indication of a ckalkyUnder stratum in the soil.

112. CORNUS sanguinea. Dog-wood. —This is planted in pleasure-grounds as an ornamental shrub, and from the red appearance of theWood in the winter forms a beautiful constrast in plantations. It isalso used by butchers for making skewers.

113. CORYLTJS Avellana. The Hazel.— Is a well known shrub oflarge growth producing nuts, which are much admired. The Filbertis an improved variety of this plant. The farmers in Kent are the bestmanagers of Filberts, and it is the only place where they are grownwith any certainty; which appears to be owing principally to thetrees being regularly pruned of the superfluous wood. It is performedin the month of March when the plants are in bloom, and is the onlytime when the fruit-bearing wood can be distinguished.

114. CRATffiGUS Aria. White Beam-Tree.—Is a beautiful treeProducing very hard wood, and is much in esteem for cogs of mill-Work and various other purposes.

115. CRATAEGUS Oxyacantha. The Quickset, or White-Thorn. —This is in great request fur making fences, and is the best plant weknow for such purposes if properly managed. It is readily propagatedby sowing the hips, or fruit, which does not readily grow the firstseason ; it is therefore usual to bury them mixed with saw-dust, orSand, one year, and then to sow them in beds.

116. DAPHNE Laureola. Spurge- or Woob-Laurel. —Is used intuedicine; which see.

We have many species of Daphne which are very ornamental to°Ur shrubberies and green-houses : these are propagated principally bygrafting; and the Wood-Laurel being hardy and of ready growthforms the stock principally used. It is readily propagated by seeds,Which in three years will make plants large enough for this purpose.

The plant in all its paits is excessively acrid. I remember a manbeing persuaded to take the leaves reduced to powder, as a remedyfor Sipbylis, and be died in consequence in great agony in a fewhours.

117. DAPHNE Mezerimn. Mezi hion ___Is a very beautiful shrub,

a nd is one of the earliest productions of Flora, often exhibiting itsbrilliant scarlet flowers in January and February. We have also a whiteVariety of this shrub in the gardens. The bark and roots are ex-tremely acrimonious, and are used in medicine.

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