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AUBOUETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



TART III. 



CHAP. IV. 



OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER DILLENL^ C£^. 



We Introduce this order cliicfly for the sake of recommending some species of HibWrt/Vi as half- 

 liardy climbers. All the hibbcrtias are either natives of the Cape of Good Ho|)e, or of Australia; 

 and, probably, the whole of them might live against a wall with protection. They grow freely either 

 in sandy loam mixed with leaf mould, or in sand and peat ; and they are reatlily increased by cuttings, 

 either of the young or of the ripened wood. 



i_ I. llibber/id vuluhiUs Hot. Kei)., t. IVC, and our fig. .'5K., the twining llibhcrlia, was introduccil 

 from the Cape of Good Hope in 179<), and ha.s been 

 long known, in green-houses and conservatories, 

 as DilliMiifj volid)ilis, or Dill6ni« scandcns. The 

 flowers are about the size of those of //ypericum 

 calyclnum : they are of a bright yellow, and are ' 

 produced all the season, from the beginning of May 

 to the end of October. The plant is a vigorous 

 grower ; and, in conservatories, will extend to the 

 height of 8 ft. or 10 ft. in about as many years. 

 t. 2. WbMrtxa dcntiUa U. Br., Bui. Reg., t.282., 

 . ;.^«:i,^sa — and our fig. .'37., the toothed-leaved Hibberlia, was 



SrL^^fe'Yk^ introduced frotn New Holland, whore it grows on 



vVi y\ the Blue ■Mountains, in 1814. It is a vigorous. 



' growing twiner, like the preceding species, with 



narrower leaves and rather smaller bright yellow 

 flowers, which are produced from February or 

 March till August It has been tried in the open 

 air in several places, and found to stand the winters 

 fif London with very little protection ; sometimes, when neglected, being killed down to the ground, 

 but shooting up again the following spring. One in our garden at Bayswater has stood since ISol ; 

 and one ill the garden at Bicton, near Kxetcr, since I80.I ™- , 



)t> ;>. hibbcrt'i^ grussulariafdlia Sat , But. Mag., t. I'JIB. The Gooseberry-leaved Ilibbertiu.— llns\s 

 an elegant trailer, from New Holland, which has been in cultivation since 181i>. The leaves are 

 nearly round, beautifullv notched ; and the flowers are on peduncles opposite the leaves, and of a 

 bright yellow. It is rather a procumlient than a climbing plant ; but thrives well against a wall, or 

 on i(K-kwork, during the summer months. 



Other .S'/K-f /V.v of llihbi'ri'a, from New Holland, are in cultivation in Britain ; and upwards of a dozen, 

 which have been described, remain to be introduced ; all of which, there can be no doubt, will 

 stand our British winters with little protection, and pro<iuce a tine show of their brilliant yellow 

 flowers during the summer months. 



CHAP. V. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER ANONA CE.E. 



The characteristics of this order assiniihite most to those of Magnoliticrfc, 

 and those distinctive of it from that order are : anthers witli an enhirged 

 four-cornered connectivum, w liicli is soinetmies nectariferous ; aibunien pierced 

 by tlie substance of the seed-coat ; leaves witliout stipules, conduj)licate in 

 the i)ud ; properties aromatic. (Lhidl. Iiiirod. to N. S., and Jhms Mill.) 

 The leaves of MafinohV/Vtvf arc involute in the bud ; and, perha|)s, tiic}- are gene- 

 rally less obviously feather-nerved than those of Anoiuicctc. The iiardy s[)ecies 

 of tills order are included in the genus Asimina Adans., formerly Andiia L., and 

 are natives of North America. 



Genus I. 



ASI'MINA Adans. The Asimina. Lin. Syst. Polyandria Polygynia. 



Idenlifieation. Adans. Fam., 2, p. .%.",.; Dec. Prod., I. p. 87. ; Don's Mill., I. p. !'l. ,. .. 

 S!/no»if»ie.i. Anndna L. ; Orchidocarpum Jl/j. ; VoiciUte ep. Pers. ; Custard Apple ; Asiminier, and 

 ' Anone, /■>. ; Flaschenbaum, Ocr. 



