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iuclics in width. The arnir.atic kind?, ii' in 

 picasurc-croiuids, should not exceed five or six 

 inches in'he'ght, nor more ihan three or four in 

 breadth. 



In trimniine: box edgings, tl;e top should be 

 clipped along iTrsi in a level or even manner, then 

 en the sidcs.'Olher low edgings should be cut and 

 kept in a somewhat similar manner at top and 

 side?, which, in those of the flowering kind, 

 should trcnerallv be trimmed to regular order as 

 soon a.-- the flowers decay. 



EDGING-IKON, an imjilement eir.ployeii 

 for cutting even the solid edges of grass-]ilat3, 

 lawns, See. 



In the blade it is made somewhat in the 

 crescent form, or like a large cheese-knife, 

 roanding below at the edge part, and with a 

 socket above, upright in the nr.dclle, in which 

 to fix a long straigTit handle of wood, three or 

 four feet long. See Plate ox Garden Im- 

 plements. 



In executing this work in straight edges, a 

 line may be set as a guide to ciit regularly even 

 and straight by ; but in curves, sweeps, or serpen- 

 tine ed^es, the eye and a steady hanci must be the 

 guide Tin both modes the edging-iron should 

 be held obliquely or slanting flat-ways to the 

 edtie, cutting clean downward an inch or more 

 deep, forming the edge even and upright ; the cut- 

 tin<'-s bcins directly cleared a-vay to the bottom. 

 It is likewise iisetul in new laid grass-plats, 

 &c. which generally require the edges of the 

 sward to be cut in even to their proper form and 

 bounds, and which can be uflTected in this way 

 to greater exactness than with a spade, and in 

 a more even and regular method. 



EDGING-SHEARS, an implement of the 

 scissar kind, calculated for trimming the rough 

 edges of grass-plats and lawns ; being used only 

 in cutting or clipping the proiccting loose grass. 

 See Plate on Garden Implements. 



The mr)st eligible kind for this purpose are 

 such as are in the form of sheep-shearing shears, 

 wholly of iron, formed with an elastic bow 

 handle, viithout any wooden handle as in the 

 common garden-shears : they may, however, be 

 formed with long wooden handles, and be so con- 

 trived, as to clip the level surface as well as the 

 edges: they are useful in the summer season 

 when the grass grows out rough and irregular 

 along the cdo:es into the walks, &;c. and requires 

 to be trimmed in close and even occasionillv, 

 which may be expeditiously performed with these 

 kind of shears, by being held with one hand, 

 and run along the edges, cutting, as they proceed, 

 the loose projecting grass close and even to the 

 solid sward or green surface. 



This work is also often eflfectfd with the 

 point of common hedge- shears and a garden 

 k.'.)itc. 



Ell RETT A, a genus comprising plants of the 

 exotic tree kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 ]\Io?!ogyina, and ranks in the natural order of 

 A^lKiifoUcB. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed pcrianthium, bell-shapcdj half five-cleft, 

 obtuse, very sinall, peniianent : thecorolla one- 

 pctalled : tubelongcr than the calyx : border five- 

 cleft: divisions somewhat ovate, flat: the sla- 

 aiina consist of five subulate, patulous filament?, 

 length of the corolla : anthers roundish, incum- 

 bent : the pistillum is a roundish crcrin : st\ le 

 filiform, thiekcr above, length of the stamens: 

 stigma obtuse, emarginate : the pericarpium a 

 roundish one-celled berry : the seeds four, convex 

 on one side, cornered on the other. 



The species cultivated are: 1. E. tiiufolior, 

 Tinus-Ieaved Ehretia ; 2. E. bnurreria, Oval- 

 leaved Ehretia; 3. E. exsucca. Dry-fruited 

 Ehretia. 



The first is an upright tree, in its native slate 

 from twenty to thirty ieet high, with an oblong 

 thick head : the branches unarmed, roundish, 

 subd.vided; the leaves alternate, veined, blunt, 

 about four inches long, on short petioles : pa- 

 nicles terminating, oblong, large : the flowers 

 terminating, numerous, white, and small, suc- 

 ceeded by a small berry. It is a native of Cuba. 



In Jamaica it is known by the name of Bas- 

 tard Cherry-tree. 



The second species is a small inelegant tree, 

 having an adust habit, fifteen feet high in 

 some situations, in others seldom five : the trunk 

 unequal, with a chinky bark : branches very 

 many, irregular; the leaves alternate, petioled, 

 quite entire, various ; obtuse, acute or emargi- 

 nate; smooth, on rocks, rugged in other places, 

 differing in size; oblong, ovate: the flowers in 

 corymbs, sweet, of a white colour. It is a na- 

 tive of the West Indies. 



The third is a small tree fifteen feet in height; 

 sometimes erect, sometimes supporting itself on 

 other trees : the leaves are ovate, acute, very 

 smooth, alternate, petioled, two inches long: 

 the racemes branched, subcorymbcd, subterminat- 

 ing: the flowers having a slight degree of sweet- 

 ness, much larger than in the preceding ones, 

 succeeded by green four-cornered berries. It is 

 a native of Spain. 



Cnllure. — These plants njay be increased by 

 sowino- the seeds procured from abroad in the 

 spring season, in pots of light earth, plunging 

 them in a hot-bed. When the plants have at- 

 tained proper growth, thev should be removed 

 into separate pots, and replunged in the bark-bed 

 of the stove. 



They are likewise capable of being propagated 

 by laving down the )oung shoots in the spring ; 

 but in this way they are long in striking root. 



