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should be sown in the autumn ; and thcv will 

 for the most part rise the succeeding spring. 



When the plants are a vcar old, they should 

 be planted out in nursery-rows ; and when they 

 are trom two to tour or five tcet lni;h, thev arc 

 proper for being removed into the shrubbery, 

 chimps, and other places. 



In the second mode, the shoots of the year 

 should belaid down in auiunui ; and they will be 

 well rooted, and lit to remove the following 

 autumn. 



Cuttings of the strong shoots of the same 

 year, ten or twelve inches long, should be plant- 

 ed three part? in the ground in the auiunm, 

 and in the autumn following, when well rooted, 

 removed and planted out as above. Suckers 

 from the roots planted in the same w ay also make 

 good shrubs. 



All these shrubby trees arc proper for large 

 shrubberies, wilderness-work^, and other orna- 

 mented erounds, w here they etlect a line variety 

 by theirlcaves and numerous tiowL-ry umbels in 

 summer, as well as their clusters of berries in 

 autumn ; and in the Dog-wood kinds, by their 

 beautiful red shoots in winter, when their leaves 

 are fallen. Thev all succeed in any common 

 soil and exposure, and require no culture, but 

 to permit them to assume their natural growth ; 

 onlv just cutting otl'anv ramblingside shoots, and 

 cleanni; awav suckers Irom the roots, and the 

 dead wood from the branches or other parts. 



CORNUTIA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the shrubby kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 

 Gymnospermin, and ranks in the natural order 

 of Personal (C. 



The characters arc : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, roundish perianth, very small, tubular, 

 five-toothcd, permanent : the corolla is one- 

 petalled, ringent ; tube cylindric, nmeh longer 

 than ihe calyx : border four-cleft, upper division 

 erect, roundish ; lateral ones distant ; lower 

 roundish, entire: the stamina have four filaments, 

 of which two project beyond the tube of the 

 corolla: anthers simple, inclining: the pistillnm 

 is a roundish cerm: style very long, two-parted: 

 stigmas thickish ; the pericarpium is a globose 

 berr\-, at the base com))rehendc-d by the calyx : 

 the seed single, kidney-form : calyx live-t<x)thed : 

 stamina longer than the corolla : style very long : 

 the berry one-seeded. 



The species mostly cultivated is C. pyranii- 

 data, Hoary-Icaved Oornutia. 



In its native situation it rises to tl-.e height of 

 ten or twelve feet : the branches .ire four-cor- 

 nered, and grow straggling : the lta\es are op- 

 posite, ovate, hoary, on very short petioles, acu- 

 minate, deciduous : the petiole ni falling is 

 broken oft" a. line distant from the branch, and 



remains a hard, tnmcate, blunt, pcrennud pro- 

 cess, supporting the branches that come oul irom 

 the axils : the flowers are in corvndis at the 

 ends of the branches ; of a fine blue colour, 

 usually appearing in autunm, and sometimes re- 

 niainini:; in beauty two months, or longer. It 

 is a native of America. 



Cullurt. — It IS propagated cither by seeds or 

 cuttings. In the first mode the seeds shotild be 

 sown In the spring, in pots of light earth, and, 

 when the plants are of sullicient growth, re- 

 moved into separate pots, npliinging ihvm in 

 the bark-bed of the stove, where thev are t(» 

 remain. 



The cuttings should be planted in pots of 

 light earth, at the same season, and managed 

 afterwards in the same manner as the above. 



These plants afford variety in assemblage with 

 other stove exotics. 



COHONILLA, a genus comprising plants of 

 the evergreen and deciduous shruliby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order D'ladclph'ia 

 Decamlria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Papilionacece. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a simple 

 umbellule : perianth one-leafed, very short, com- 

 pressed, bilid, erect; the three inferior teeib 

 smaller ; the two superior conjoined ; perma- 

 nent: the corolla papilionaceous: standard heart- 

 shaped, redected on all sides, scarce longer than 

 the win<rs : w ings ovate, converging at top, gap- 

 ing at tottom, obtuse : keel compressed, acu- 

 mmate, ascending, usually shorter than the 

 wings : the stamina consist of diadelphous fila- 

 ments (single and nine-cleft), ascending at al- 

 most a right angle, the tips widish ; anthers 

 simple, small : the pistillum is a columnar, ob- 

 long germ: stvle bristletl, ascending: stigma 

 small, obtuse: the pericarpium is a Iciiume, very 

 long, columnar, straisht, contractctl with an 

 i>thnnis between each sc-cd ; two-valved, one- 

 celled, parting by joints : the seeds many. 



The species are: 1. C. juncea, Linear-leaved 

 Coronilla; 3. C. falcnlina. Small Shrubby Co- 

 runilla; 3. C. urgc/iUn, Silvery-lea\ed Coro- 

 nilla; 4. C. glaitca. Great Slirubby Coronilla ; 

 5. C. Kmerus, Scorpion Sena. 



The first rises from two to f(jur fttt high, with 

 many slender woody brunches, a.-' in bnioni: 

 the leaves are linear, spear-sliaped, small, and 

 somew hat (leshv : the flowers stand upon pretty 

 long axillary peduncles, in small bunches, are 

 of a bright yellow colour, and appear for mx or 

 Seven months toceiher, but have not piodueed 

 seeds in this climate. It is a native of tlie South 

 of France. 



The second species rises three or foui fiet 

 high : the leaflets nine or eleven, cblong-cordaie 

 or wedge-fonii rctusc, with a small point or 

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