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down either in ihe autumn or spring, slitting the 

 part 'ad into the earth. When well rooted in 

 ibe toUowing aiituuin, they niav be taken od" 

 and planted out in the nurscr)', to remain till of 

 two or three feet growth, when they may he 

 planted out where they are to remain. 



These plants arc adapted to the borders and 

 clumps of shrubberies and pleasure-grounds. 



liALLKPJA, a genus eontaining a |)lant of 

 the shrubby evergreen kind for the green-house. 



It belongs to the class and order Didijnamia 

 ^ngiospt-niihiy and ranks in tlie natural order of 

 PersonatcB. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a otie- 

 leafed perianthiuni, trilid, flat, spreading, \erv 

 obtuse, permanent : the upper cleft twice as 

 broad as the rest: the corolla is monopetalous, 

 ringent : tube roundish at the base, bent in with 

 a swelling throat : border oijlique, upright, four- 

 cleft ; the upper cleft a little longer than the 

 others, blunt, eniarginate ; the side ones shorter, 

 broader, sharper ; the lowest very short, very 

 slender, and very sharp : the stamina have four 

 filainenis, bristle-shaped, straight, inserted into 

 th'i tube, longer than the corolla : anthers round- 

 ish, twin: the pistillumisan inferior, ovate germ, 

 ending in a style longer than the stamens : stig- 

 ma smiple : the pericarpium is a roundish berry, 

 two-celled : the seeds small, flat, roundish, and 

 winged. 



The only species is H. lucida, African Fly- 

 Honeysuckle. 



It grows to the height of six or eight feet 

 ■with a woody stem well funiished with branches: 

 the leaves are ovate, serrate, opposite, and con- 

 tinuing green through the vear; the flowers come 

 out singly, and are of a reil colour ; but being 

 intermixed with the leaves, and growing sealter- 

 ingly on llie branches, are nut easily discerned. 

 They come out ia June, and the seeds ripen in 

 September. The leaves continue green all the 

 winter. It is native of the Cape; flowering 

 from June to Auirust. 



Culture. — This plant may be propagated by 

 cuttings, which should be planted in pots filled 

 with light earth in the summer. 



When the plants are up, they may be exposed 

 in the summer, and have plenty of water; and 

 in winter be housed with Myrtles, and other 

 hardy exotic plants, which require much air in 

 mild weather. 



They n)ay also he raised by sowing the seeds 

 in pots of light earth, and plunged in the hot- 

 bed, by which means they succeed very well. 



They aflord variety in green-house collections. 



HAMAMELIS, a genus containing a plant of 

 the hardy deciiiuous shrubby kind. 



It belongs to iJie class and order Tttrandria 



Dlitynia, and ranks in the n.ttural order of 

 Ueil'fiiih:s. 



The characters arc : that the calyx is a ihrce- 

 feav. d involucre, three-flowered : the two inner 

 leaflets roundish, smaller, blunt ; the outmost 

 larger, lanceolate : nerianlhium double: liieout- 

 ler tvNo-Ieavcd, smaller, roundisli; thi; iinier luiir- 

 leaved, upright; the Icafletsoblong, blunt, equal : 

 the corolla lias four petals, linear, equal, very 

 long, blunt, rtllcx ; nectary of four truncate leaf- 

 lets, grow ing to the corolla : the stamina have 

 four lilameiits, linear, shorter than ilie calvx : 

 anthers two-horned, bent in : the pistillum is an 

 ovate germ, villose, ending in two styles, whieli 

 arc of the same length with the stamens : slif- 

 mas capitate : there is no pcricarpiuni : the scc-J 

 is an ovate nut, half covered with iliecalvx, blunt, 

 furrowed on both sides at the lip, having two 

 little horns spreading horizontally, two-celled, 

 two-valved, 



Tlie only species is //.I'lV^/flira, Witch- Hazel. 



It has a woody stem, from two to three feet 

 high, sending out many slender branches: ih.- 

 leaves are oval, indented on their edges, having 

 great resemblance to those of the Hazel, and 

 placed alternately on the branches: these fall 

 away in autumn, and tlien the flowers come out 

 in clusters from the joints. It is a native of 

 Virginia. 



Culture. — ^This plant is propagated by seed, 

 and layers made from the young branches. 



In the first method, the seed procured from 

 America is sown in an easterly border, half an 

 inch deep ; the plants come up the second sj)ring, 

 the ground being kept clean from weeds : when 

 the season proves very dry, moderate waterings 

 shpuld also be given in summer ; and when tin v 

 are two years old, they should be transplanted 

 into nursery rows. 



The layers should be laid down in autumn, or 

 early in spring, the young twigs of the last sum- 

 mer's shoots being chosen ; giving them a slit at 

 a joint, then laying them in the earth. They 

 will be rooted, and tit to transplant into the nur- 

 sery by the autumn following. When they hsve 

 had some growth there, they may be removed to 

 the places where they are to remain. 



They afford variety in the shrubber)' and other 

 parts of plexsure grounds. 



HAND-GLASSES, such glasses as arc moved 

 by the hand, and used lor placing over, pro- 

 tecting, and forwarding various sorts of planta. 

 In winter, such as young cauliflowers, lettuce^, 

 See. and in raising seedling plants of both the.<e 

 in the spring, as well as several others, in hot- 

 beds, or in warm borders; also small sallading. 

 And they are particularly necessary in the culture 

 of general crops of iiuntncr cucumbers, for pli- 

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