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out and planted in ihc places where ihcy arc 

 to grow, or in nurscry-lieds, to stand two or 

 more years, when they will be proper for the 

 shrubbery or other places. 



The cuttiniis should be made from the pre- 

 ceding year's shoots, and planted in pots of good 

 earth, plunging them in a mild hot-bed. When 

 well rooted, they may be removed into other 

 separate pots, or be planted in the borders 

 w here there is a proper degree of shade, a very 

 little water being given at the time. 



Slippings of the same sort of shoots also 

 succeed, and produce good plants when set 

 in the same manner m the later summer 

 months. 



The plants are hardy ornamental evergreens 

 for the fronts or borders of clumps in pleasure- 

 grounds. 



They are likewise sometimes introduced into 

 the greenhouse for the purpose of variety. They 

 succeed best in a rather drv soil. 



C0CX.10L0BA, a genus containing plants 

 of the evergreen tree and shrubby exotic kmds. 



It belongs to the class and order Otlamlr'm 

 Trinynla, and ranks in the natural order of 

 HoUiracetE. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, five-parted perianth ; divisions oblong, 

 obtuse, concave, spreading most widely, co- 

 loured, permanent : there is no corolla : the 

 stamina have eight tilaments, subulate, patulous, 

 shorter than the calyx : anthers roundish, twin : 

 the pistillum is an ovate germ, trigonal : styles 

 three, short, filiform, spreading: stigmas simple: 

 there is no pericarpium : calyx berried, thicken- 

 ed, convergins;, involving the seed ; the seed is 

 an ovate nut, acute, one-celled. 



The species cultivated are: 1. C. 7/rifcra, 

 Poiuid-leaved Sea-side Grape, or Mangrove 

 Grape-tree ; 2. C. pubi-scem, Great-kaved Sea- 

 side Grape ; 3. C puiiclala. Spear-leaved Sea- 

 side Grape ; 4. C. Itnu'ifuiia, Small Sea-side 

 Grape. 



The first, in its native situation, is a lofty 

 spreading branched irregular inelegantly formed 

 tree, but rendered handsome by its leaves and 

 fruits : the bark is cinereous and thin, in the 

 younger trees smooth, in older ones full of 

 thinks : the limber, hard, ])onderous, and red : 

 the leaves quite entire, cnilmg in a short blunt 

 point, coriaceous, thick, large, alternate, dec]) 

 green, wiiii the midrib ana veins connected 

 with it more or less scarlet, on short petioles 

 sheathing at the base : the flowers sni:dl, 

 whitish, smellins like those of the cherrv. The 

 berries are of the size of grapes. It is common 

 in the sugar colonies. 



The second species is an upright tree, sixty or 



eighty feel high in its native situation : the head 

 has iVeipiently no more than two or three thick 

 branches, but lillle divided and irregular : the 

 bole is sometimes forty feet in length, and puts 

 forth a branch or two about the middle : the 

 timber is of a deep red, heavy, very hard, and 

 also incorruptible, but brittle; when used for 

 posts, the i)art inider ground becomes hard as 

 stone : the leaves arc roundish, cordate, quite 

 entire, very much veined and wrinkled, fre- 

 quently extremely hirsute, somctimis howevei 

 almost smooth, alternate, few, two lect in dia- 

 meter, on a short jKiiole sheathing at the base. 

 It is common in Martinico. 



The third is a small upright branched tree, 

 fifteen feet high : the leaves quite entire, sub- 

 coriaceous, veined, shining, alternate, half a 

 foot long, commonly two or three on each 

 flowering branehlet, on petioles sheathing at the 

 base : the flowers arc while. It is a native of 

 Carthagcna. 



The h)urth species is of humbler growth than 

 any of the former ; the flowers and fruit being 

 sniaiicr than those of the other sorts ; and it re- 

 cedes from them in having membranaceous, not 

 coriaceous leaves : the Uowers are small, and 

 disposed in simple axillary spikes. It is a native 

 of Jamaica. 



Culture. — ^These different species may be easily 

 propagated by sowing the seeds obtained from 

 the places where ihey grow naturally, in ])ot9 

 filled with light rich earth, in the earlv spring 

 season, |)luiiging them in a bark hot-bed ; and 

 when the plants are of sufficient growth, thev 

 slioulJ be removed into small pots, and replaced 

 in the hot-bed, water and due shade bciui: civm 

 them till they have stricken fresh root. Their 

 manageinent afterwards is the same as that of 

 other more tender plants. 



As these plants only attain a shrubby growth 

 in this climate, and are tender, thev should be 

 con-taiitly retained in the stove or hot-house. 



They aflTord a good variety by the fine ever 

 green appearance of tiieir large leaves. 



COCHLEARIA, a gtnus"'art'ording a plant of 

 the herbaceous tap-rooted c;culent kind. 



It belongs to the ela^s and order Tetrailyiiumia 

 S'diculom, and ranks in the natural order of 

 SUujiios<e. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a fotir- 

 leavcd perianth : leaflets ovate, concave, iraspiiif, 

 deciduous : the corolla is four-petalled, cruci- 

 form : petal* obovate, spreading, twice the size 

 of the calyx : claws narrow, shorter than the 

 calyx, patulou.s : the stamina have six subulate 

 filaments, length <»f the calyx : the oppotiic 

 ones slioiter : aailjers obtuse, compressed : llie 

 pistillum is a heart-shaped germ; st\lc «.implf. 



