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protected in the winter by some sort of strawy 

 material. 



Thuy succeed best in dry warm light soils. 



The other sorts may be raised by sowing the 

 seeds, when they can be obtained IVoni abroad 

 or produced here, in pots of light earth, in the 

 farly spring, being afterwards removed into 

 other pots, and placed in the green-house or 

 Cape stove. Mr. Curtis, however, suggests 

 that the two last may succeed in the open air, 

 when planted out in warm sheltered situations, 

 and protected in the winter season. 



They are all ornamental in their flowery climb- 

 ing nature; the lirst in the open ground, and the 

 latter in the ereen-house and stove collections. 



GLYCYRKHIZA, a genus furnishmg a 

 plant of the herbaceous perennial kind. 



lb belongs to the class and order Diadclphia 

 Decandna, and ranks in the natural order of 

 PapUionacece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed tubular perianthium, two-lipped, perma- 

 nent : upper lip three-parted : the lateral seg- 

 ments linear, the middle one broader, bitid : 

 lower entirely simple, linear: the corolla is pa- 

 pilionaceous : banner ovate-lanceolate, straight, 

 longer: wings oblong, very like the keel, but 

 a little larger : keel two-petalled, acute, with a 

 claw the length of the calyx : the stamina have 

 diadelphous filaments (simple and nine-cleft), 

 straight : anthers simple, roundish : the pistillum 

 is a germ shorter than the calyx : style subulate, 

 the length of the stamens : stigma obtuse, 

 ascending : the pericarpium is an ovate or ob- 

 long legume, compressed, acute, one-celled : 

 the seeds very few, and kidney-form : calyx 

 two-lipped : u])per lip three-parted, lower un- 

 divided : legume ovate, compressed. 



The species cultivated is G. glalra, Com- 

 mon Liquorice. 



It has the roots running very deep into the 

 ground, and creeping to a considerable distance, 

 especially where they stand long unremoved. 

 From these arise strong herbaceous stalks, four 

 or five feet high. The leaves are composed of 

 four or five pairs of ovate leaflets, terminated by 

 an odd one : these and the stalks are clammy, 

 and of a dark green. The flowers are in axil- 

 lary spikes, standing erect, and of a pale blue 

 colour. The pods are short, containing two or 

 three seeds. 



This plant is cultivated for its roots, which 

 are useful for different purposes. 



Culture. — A light sandy soil is the most 

 adapted to the growth of this sort of crops, as 

 its goodness consists in the length of the roots. 

 The ground in which it is intended to be plant- 

 ed should be well dug aad dunged the year be- 



fore planting, that it may have become perfectly 

 mellow, and the dung well rotted, and mixed with 

 the earth, otherwise it will be apt to stop the 

 roots from running down and being properlv 

 supported; and immediately before pi antins it 

 should be well dug again to the depth of three 

 spades, and be laid very light. 



Wlien thus prepared, fresh plants taken from 

 the sides or heads of the old roots should be 

 provided, care beuig taken that they have each a 

 ffood bnd or eve, beino; about ten ineiics loni^. 

 and perreetiv sound. 



The operation of planting them should be per- 

 formed about the middle of March, which is 

 done in this manner: — a line is first set across 

 the ground, then with a long dibble made 

 on purpose the shoots or cuttings are put in, 

 so that the whole plants may be set into the 

 ground, with the heads about an inch under the 

 surface, in a straight line, about a foot asunder 

 in the rows, and a foot and half or two feet 

 distance row from row. 



When the whole spot of sjround has been 

 thus planted, a thin crop of onions may be sown 

 over the land. The^e must be kept perfectly 

 clean by the hoe, care being taken not to cut off 

 the top shoots of the litpiorice plants, as it 

 VA)uld greatly injure them. All the onions 

 which grow near the heads of the liquorice 

 should also be removed. Tn October, the 

 shoots of the liquorice should be removed, and 

 a little very rotten dung spread upon the surface. 



In the following spring, about March, the 

 ground should be sliohtly dug betw-een the rows 

 of liquorice, burying the remaining part of the 

 dung, being very careful not to cut the roots. 



During the summer they must be kept quite 

 clean by occasional hoeina;. The same opera- 

 tions must be annually performed, so as to keep 

 the ground and plants in perfect order. 



These plants must remain three years from 

 the time of planting, when they will be fit to 

 take up for use, which sliould be done when the 

 stalks are perfectly decayed : as, when taken up 

 too soon, the roots shrink greatly, and lose in 

 weight. 



In taking up the roots the ground is trenched 

 over row after row to the full depth, and the 

 young shotns taken from the old roots cut into 

 sets for new plantations ; which should be made 

 annually, iii order to keep a constant succession 

 of roots fit for being taken up. 



The great art in this culture is to have the 

 earth well trenched to a proper depth, to have, 

 good sets, and to keep the ground afterwards 

 quite clean by hoeing. 



GNAPHAlLIUM, a genus affording plants 

 of the herbaceous and under shrubby kinds. 



