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white flowers, wiih purple flowers, with purple 

 and white flowtrs, with rtcsh-coloured flowers, 

 with flesh-coloured and white flowers, with 

 violel-eolourcd flowers, with violet and wliite 

 flowers, wiili red flowers, with douhle bhie 

 flowers, with double purple flowers, and with 

 double purple and w liite tiowers. 



'J he toiirlh species is annual, and sends up a 

 round clianiKJkd stalk near three feet hit;h, 

 which divides into nianv branches, with jagsred 

 leaves, ot" a pale green, smooth, and close to the 

 branches ; from the side of the branches come 

 out long naked peduncles, each sustaining a 

 single head of flowers, which have a very stronfj 

 odour, so as to be oflVnsivc to many people, but 

 to others very grateful : thev ar(; purple, uhite, 

 or flesh-coloured. It is a native of Persia. 



It varies with purple flowers, with white 

 flowers, with flesh-coloured flowers, with purple 

 lislulous flowers, with white tistulous flowers, 

 with fringed flowers with sawed leaves, and with 

 bright vellow fistular flowers. 



Culture. — These plants are raised with little 

 trouble or diflicultv. The llrst sort is capable of 

 being increased bv parting the roots, and plant- 

 ing them out in the earlv spring months or in 

 the autumn, in beds or borders w here they are 

 to remain. 



And this, as well as the annual sorts, may 

 likewise be raised from seed, which in it and the 

 second species should be sow n in the borders or 

 clumps in March or the following month, the 

 young plants being kept clean from weeds, and 

 removed into other situations, when necessary, 

 in the follow ing autumn. 



The third and fourth species and varieties are 

 also propagated bv sowing the seeds in the open 

 ground where the plants are to flower, in the 

 above season. Thev should be put in, in patches 

 of six or seven seeds in a place, covering them 

 lightly in, to the depth of about half an inch. 

 Ihe latter sort may also be sown in the autunni 

 as soon as the seeds are fullv ripened, by which 

 means they will flower at a much more early 

 period in the following year. 



The Sweet Sultan kinds, and especially the 

 Yellow, which is rather tender, may also be 

 rendered more forward by sowing the seeds under 

 frames or glasses on <rtntle hotbeds in the earlv 

 S|)riiig, removintr the plants to the open ground 

 when of suflScient growth, with balls of earth 

 about their roots, or into pots. 



All the sorts are proper for ornamenting the 

 clumps and borders of pleasure-grounds ; the 

 two first being placed more backward in them, 

 as growinir large. 



CEl'A." See Ai,t.ium. 



CEi'HALANTUUS, a genus comprchcnd- 



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ing a plant of the hardy exotic deciduous flower- 

 ing shrubby kind. The Button-Tree. 



It belongs to the class and order Tctrnndrta 

 'Monogtjn'ui, and ranks in the natural order of 



1'he characters are : that the calvx has no com- 

 mon perianthium, but the receiiiacle collecting 

 many flosciiles into a globose head : perianthium 

 proper one-leafed, fuunel-lorm, angular; border 

 quadrilid : the corolla is univer3al equal : proper 

 monopetalous, funnel -form, acute, quadnfid : the 

 stamina consist of four lilamcnts, inserted into 

 the corolla, shorter than the border: anthers 

 globose: the pistillum is an inferior germ: style 

 longer than the corolla : stigma globose : there 

 is no pericarpium : the seeds solitarv, long, at- 

 tenuated at the base, pyramidal and lanuginous ; 

 the receptacle common globular and villose. 



The species commonly cultivated is C. Occi- 

 dcnlalii, American Button-wood. 



It is a shrub that seldom rises higher than six 

 or seven feet in this climate. The branches 

 come out by pairs, opposite at each joint: the 

 leaves arc either in pairs opposite, or there are 

 three at the same joint, standing round the 

 branch; these are near three inches long, and 

 one and a (piartcr broad, liaving a strong vein 

 running longitudinally through the middle, and 

 some small transverse veins from that to the 

 borders ; thev are of a light-green, and their 

 foot-stalks change to a reddish colour next the 

 branches ; the ends of the branches arc termi- 

 nated bv loose spikes of spherical heads, about 

 the size of a marble, each of which is composed 

 of many small flowers, of a whitish yellow co- 

 lour, fastened to an axis in the middle; appear- 

 ing in July, and, in warm seasons, succeeded 

 bv seeds, which have sometimes ripened here. 



Culture. — 1 his shrub is capable of being 

 raised either by seeds procured from its native 

 situation, or bv layers and cuttings. In tlie first 

 mode the seeds should be sown in bed.< in the 

 open ground as soon as thev are procured, which 

 if in the autumn, the plants mostly appear in 

 the spring ; but when it is done late in the 

 spring thev will sometimes not rise till the 

 spring f<.llowinff. The earth should lie kept 

 free from weede, giving shade to the plants in 

 very hot w eather, and a little protection from 

 severe frost. The first summer the jilants should 

 be frequenllv watered in dry weather; and when 

 they are of one or two years' grow th, according 

 to their strength, transplanted in the autumn or 

 spring months in the nurscrv' lines, where they 

 should remain till fit for the shrubbery. 



The layers of the young shoots sliould be put 

 down in the autumn, and in ihe following autuiiiii 

 be taken ofland planted where thev are to stand. 

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