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Tuna. — One of the kinds of! doxble-blossomed Furze is very 
Prickly Pear or Indian Fig—See | handsome, and makes a beautiful 
Opo'NTIA. hedge. When it is employed for 
Tura. — Lobeliacee. — The new | this purpose, a bank of earth should 
name for the large upright-grow-| be raised three or four feet high, 
ing kinds of Lobelia, with scarlet | and wider at the bottom than at 
flowers. | the top, and the cuttings should be 
TureLo-TrEE.—Wy/ssa sylvatica. | planted in a drill along the ridge 
Turmeric. — Curctma.— Scita- | The soil should be somewhat sandy, 
mineous plants with very showy and if there be plenty of room the 
flowers, natives of the East Indies, plants should be left to nature to 
which require a stove in England. | hang down loosely over the bank, 
They should be grown in light rich | and they should never be pruned 
earth, and they are propagated by except to cut out the dead wood. 
offsets. U. nana grows generally on very 
Turne‘ra.—- Turneridcee.—-Stove | poor gravelly soils, and seldom ex- 
shrubs and herbaceous plants with | ceeds two feet in -; while U. 
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yellow flowers, some of which bear | europe‘a, the com kind, in 
a slight resemblance to those of the | favourable situations will grow ten 
Thunbergia. They should be grown feet high. U. stricta, the Irish 
in light rich soil, and they are pro- Furze, has no spmes, and it grows 
pagated by cuttings, or by seeds, straight upright to the height of 
which they ripen freely. eight feet or ten feet. It requires 
TURPENTINE-TREE.—Pistdcia te- a moist rich soil; and it is propa- 
rebinthus—It must be observed, gated by cuttings lke the double- 
however, that common Turpentine blossomed kind, as it has never yet 
is procured from the different trees | been known to ripen seeds. All 
of fhe Pine and Fir tribe. the other kinds are propagated by 
Tussita‘co.— Composite. — The | seeds, which they ripen in great 
Coltsfoet or Butter Bur. Some of) abundance. 
the species are pretty and worth, U’tmvus.—Ulmdcee—The Elm. 
cultivating, particularly 7. fra-| The Weeping Elm is a very orna- 
grans. They will all grow in a/ mental tree for pleasure-grounds. 
garden soil; and are very trouble-| Umsriicus.—Crassulacee.—The 
some to keep in bounds, from the | new name for some of the kinds of 
immense number of suckers that | Nayelwort—See Cory'LEpon. _ 
they send up from their roots. UmpreLia tTreeE.— Magnolia tri. 
Tursan.—See Anpros#‘MoM and | petala.—See Maeno'nia. 
Hyre’ricum. Ure‘po.—Cryptogamia—A kind 
Ty\pua.— Typhinee.— Cat’s-tail | of rust often found on the leaves of 
Rush. Aquatic plants, suitable for | Rose Trees and other plants.—See 
growing on the borders of ponds, | Mirtpew. 
and made pieces of water, to hide} Urri\‘ca.—Urticdcee.—The Net- ° 
the boundary. tle. The Roman Nettle, U. pilu- 
lifera, is sometimes grown in gar- 
dens as an ornamental annual, b 
U. the sting is much worse than tha 
of U. dioica, the common Nettle ve 
U'tex. — Leguminose. — The | Some of the exotie species are very wm 
Furze. An erect evergreen shrub | handsome ; a8 for example, U. reti- 
with yellow flowers, which are pro- | culdta, a native of Jamaica, which 
duced nearly all the year. ‘The | has red ond yellow flowers and deep 
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