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ennials, which grow in any com- 
mon soil kept moist, and are propa- 
gated by division. J. salicaria isa 
native of Britain, on the banks of 
rivers, and grows to the height of 
four feet; L. diffisum grows to the 
height of one foot ; and both these 
species produce their purple flowers 
in July and August, when flowers 
are comparatively rarer than they 
are in June and September. JL. 
virgdtum grows three feet high, and 
produces its purple flowers from 
June to September. 
Ly'trza.—See Li'rrza. 
M. 
Macuu‘ra. — Urticdcee. — The 
Osage-orange. Handsome evergreen 
trees, with small shining yellowish 
green leaves, and many thorns. 
The flowers are white and rather 
small, but the fruit, which is as 
large as an orange, and of a bril- 
liant gold yellow, is very ornamental. 
These trees are as yet rare in Brit- 
ish gardens, but they have borne 
fruit in the Jardin des Plantes in 
Paris. The male and female flow- 
ers are on different trees. It is sup- 
posed that the leaves of this plant 
will be equally good as those of the 
White Mulberry for feeding silk- 
worms, as they abound in a milky 
juice which is very tenacious. The 
Maclura succeeds better in rather 
a poor soil; as where the soil is too 
= MADIA. 279 MAGNOLIA. 
are brown in thecentre. The seeds 
should be sown in the open air in 
February, or as soon as the weather 
will admit, in rich deep soil ; or in 
sheltered situations, the seeds may 
be sown in autumn, and the young 
plants left to stand the winter. 
When the plants begin to attain a 
considerable size, they should be 
staked and tied up, or they will have 
a very untidy and disagreeable ap- 
pearance. The kind called M. splén- 
densis only a variety of M. élegans. 
Maeno‘tia. — Magnolidcea. — 
This is a genus of singularly orna- 
mental trees, mostly of small size, 
and some of them shrubs. M. 
grandiflora, the evergreen Magno- 
lia, the most desirable variety of 
which is M. g. exoniénsis, is a well- 
known highly prized tree, generally 
planted against a wall. Though it 
will only flower freely in favourable 
situations, yet it is very hardy, not 
having been killed anywhere by the 
severe winter of 1837-8. In every 
villa, whatever may be its extent, 
one or two plants of this Magnolia 
ought to be placed against the 
house, or on a conservative wall. 
It will thrive in a loamy soil, rather 
rich ; buat it will grow still better in 
peat, and it requires no attention 
but training the branches, and nail- 
ing them against the wall. It pro- 
duces its large flowers, which are 
from six inches to a foot in diameter 
when fully expanded, from August 
to October. M. g. pre‘cox is a 
rich, the plant makes shoots more | comparatively rare variety, with 
luxuriant than it can ripen; and 
the tops of the young wood are 
often killed by frost. 
Maperra Vine.—See Base’. 
Mapper.—See Ro'‘sta. 
Ma‘p1a.— Compésite.—M. sativa 
is a weedy-looking plant, grown in 
Germany, for crushing its seeds to 
make oil. M. élegans (Madaria 
élegans, Dec.) is a coarse-growing 
annual, with woolly leaves, and 
very pretty yellow flowers, which 
broader leaves than M. g. exonién- 
sis, and still larger flowers, and 
they appear in July and sometimes 
in June. In purchasing both spe- 
cies in the nurseries, care should be 
taken to select plants which have 
been raised from layers; as seed. 
lings, which are now sometimes im- 
ported from France, are often ten 
or fifteen years before they come 
into flower: whereas the others 
will flower the first or second year. 
