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ind spread from each other: the flowers are 

 white, and appear m June and July, hut are not 

 succeeded hv seeds in this climate. The leaves, 

 when bruised, emit an ajrreeahle odour, lor which 

 it is bv some much esteemed. The gardeners 

 give it 'the title of Madam Maintenon. It grows 

 naturally in the Canary IsVnds. 



C„/lure.— The first is raised either by seeds 



petals, roundish, blunt, large : nectaries several, 

 very short, placed in a ring, one-leafed, tubular, 

 narrower at bottom: mouth two-lipped, upright, 

 emaroinate, the inner lin shortest: the stamina 

 consist of numerous subulate filaments : anthers 

 compressed, narrower at bottom, upright: the 

 pistiilum consists of about six germs, compres- 

 sed: styles subulate: stigmas thickish : (five or 



or cuttm<rs In the first method the seeds may more:) the pencarpium consists of capsules (le- 



be sown upon a moderate hot-bed, or in pots to guminous, beaked) compressed, two-keeled : the 



be plun.n-d in a hot-bed m the early spring, lower keel shorter; the upper convex gapmg: 



When the plants have attained some growth, the seeds several, round, and fixed to the 



thcv should !)e removed into separate small pots suture. , ■ , , , rr , ,• 



jiUed with li«-hi earth, rcplunging them mto The species cultivated are: \. H. hyemaks, 



the hot-bed, and giving them proper shade till Winter Hellebore, or Yellow Winter Aconite; 



,. , "^ ° 2. H. mger, Black Hellebore, or Christmas 



"Vhev" should afterwards be graduallv inured Rose; 3. H. viridis. Green Hellebore ;^ 4. H. 



to the open air, so as to be set out in warm situa- /Ms Stinking Hellebore, or Bear s-toot; 



tioits in the summer. In the autumn and win- 5. H. Inndui, Livid Purple, or Great Three- 



ter thev should have the protection of a good flowered Black Hellebore. 



oTeen-hou«e '^^^ ^'"*'- ^^^ ^ tuberous transverse root, with 



'^ The cutti'ncTS should be planted in pots of many dependent fibres, putting up several naked 



lio-ht earth in the summer season, plunging them stems or scapes, simple, smooth, round, from an 



in a mild hot-bed. They soon take root, and inch or two to four inches in height, terminated 



afterwards require the same management as the by a single leaf, spreading out horizontally in a 



seedlings. They seldom, however, make so good circle, divided mto five parts almost to the base, 



plants. 



The three following sorts are increased by 

 sowing the seeds on a hot-bed in the early 

 spring, removing them as the heat declines to 

 anotlfer hot-bed when necessary, managing them 

 as Balsams and other temkr annuals; and in 

 the middle of the summer, removing them to the 

 situations 

 earth about their roots. 



The last sort is increased by planting cuttings 

 of the young shoots in the summer in pots, or 

 ill a shad\- border, giving them water pretty 

 freely. When well rooted, they may in the latter 

 case' be carefully taken up and put in pots, 

 olacino- them in shadv situations till fresh root- 



ed. ° 



They afterwards require the protection of the 

 green-house from frosts and severe weather, be- 

 iii<r placed with plants of the more hardy sorts, 

 sulli as Mvrtles, and that require free air in mild 

 wea'.lu r. 



The first and last sorts are very ornamental 

 amon<' potted green-house plants of the more 

 liardy kinds; and the otlurs among the more 

 tender flowerv plants in pots and borders. 



iIELLKIU')RK. See Hki-lkuouus. 



HELI-EIiORCS, a genus containing plants 

 of the iierbaceous perennial kind. 



It belongs to ihc class and order I'o/i/unilrifi 

 Pn/i/syiin, and ranks in the natural order of 



The characters are : that there is no calyx, un- 

 less the corolla, which in some species is perma- 



and the parts simple, or divided into two, three, 

 or four lobes. In the bosom of this sits one 

 large, upright, yellow flower. It is native of 

 Lombardv, and flowers with us from January to 

 March. 



The second has transverse roots, externally 



rough and knotted, with many dependent fibres, 



whcre'thcv are to flower,°with balls of and some large roots striking down ; the scapes 



from six inches to near a foot in length, round, 

 upright, variegated with red, rising from a sheath, 

 and terminated usually with one flower, some- 

 times two, and very rarely three : corolla very 

 large, generally white at first, but frequently 

 with a tint of red, growing deeper with age, but 

 finally becoming green. It is a native of Italy, &:c. 

 flowering from December to March. Martyn 

 observes, that " it has the name of Black Hel- 

 k'hore from the colour of the root ; and of 

 Chrhmas Rose, from the time of flowering and 

 the colour of the corolla." 



The third has a round stem, a little branched 

 at top, but not near so much as in the next sort ; 

 leafy, reddish at the base, upright, smooth, a 

 foot or eighteen inches in height : the leaves 

 not of a slifl" leathery consistence, as in the nexi 

 species, but sol't and of a lighter green ; those 

 from the bottom are on long petioles, but those 

 on the stem sit close to their sheaths : the leaflets 

 (seven to ten) lanceolate, acuminate, sharplj 

 serrate, smooth, gashed, usually trifid, the di- 

 visions sometimes deei)ly lobed ; and at the base 

 of each peduncle is a similar leaf, only smaller : 

 the peduncles axillary, an inch long, round; 

 nent, be considered as such: the corolla lias live supporting two (sometimes only one) nodding, 



