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Month ; but they grow stronger where this is 

 avoided, by placing them at first in larger pots, 

 and thinner in the Led, so as to have full room 

 to rise to a proper sire. The frames should he 

 raised as the plants advance in growth. 



Abo;:t the beginning of June they should be 

 gradually exposed to the influence of the full 

 air, in order to harden them, that they may be 

 set out towards the end of it ; when they should 

 hue sticks placed for their support, to which 

 they should he neatly tied. The potted plants 

 should likewise be often refreshed with water 

 once or more in the day, when the season is 

 hot. Those in the open ground should also be 

 occasionally watered in dry weather. See An- 

 nual Plants. 



All these plants may be raised with exeat fa- 

 cility in the stove, in the same manner as above. 



In the second species the seed may be sown 

 either early in the spring, or in the autumn. In 

 both the species those in the natural ground 

 should be sown later than i n the hot-bed me- 

 thod. 



In order to save seed, a few of the best 

 plants, of the different finest varieties, should he 

 placed, when in full blow, in some airy situation, 

 so as to be exposed to the sun, and at the same 

 time protected from wet by glasses. 



The fine potted species and varieties of these 

 plants are highly ornamental among other 

 potted plants, in the most conspicuous places 

 about the houses ; and the Jess valuable kinds 

 in the fronts of the borders, clumps, and other 

 parts of pleasure-grounds, in mixture with other 

 flowery plants. 



INARCH-GRAFTING. See Grafting. 



INARCHING, a method of grafting by 

 which the parts of different trees are bent down 

 and united, while the trees remain growing. See 

 Grafting. 



INDIAN AUROW-ROOT. See Maran- 



TA. 



INDIAN CORN. See Zea. 



INDIAN CRESS. See Trop^olum. 



INDIAN FIG. See Cactus. 



INDIAN GOD TREE. See Ficus. 



INDIAN MALLOW. See Sida. 



INDIAN OAK. SeeTF.CTONA. 



INDIAN REED. See Canna. 



INDIAN SHOT. See Canna. 



INDIGO. See Indigofera. 



INDIGO, BASTARD. SeeAMORPHA. 



INDIGOFERA, a genus containing plants 

 of the shrubby exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadelpfiia 

 Dccandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Papilionaceee or Isguminosce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 



leafed perianthium, spreading, nearly flat, frVc- 

 toothed : the corolla papili : standard 



rounded, reflex, emarginate, spreading: wings 

 oblong, obtuse, spreading al he infenor mar- 

 gin, of the shape of the standard: keel obtuse, 

 spreading, deflex, marked oil each side by an 

 awl-shaped hollow dagger or point: the stamina 

 have diadelphous filaments, disposed in a cylin- 

 der, ascending at their tips: anthers roundish: 

 the pistillum is a cylindrfc germ ! style 

 ascending: stigma obtuse : the p nisi 



roundish long legume (linear-oblong, com- 

 monly four-cornered) : the seeds some, kidney- 

 shaped (kidney-ifetuse or cuboid). 



The species cultivated are : t . /. tinctoria, 

 Dyer's Indigo; 2. J. argentea, Silvery-leaved 

 Indigo; A. T.edttdicans, White Indigo; }. J. 

 ama'/ia, Scarlet-flowered Indigo. 



The first has the stem filiform, subflexnose, 

 angular, smooth, upright, a foot and half high, 

 a Tittle branched at top: the branches like the 

 stem, alternate, upright: the leaflets in four 

 pairs or more, very blunt with a point, smooth, 

 very finely villose underneath, almost equal 

 the racemes from the axils of the leaves, when 

 they begin to flower, much shorter than the leaf, 

 but becoming longer as they advance : the le- 

 gumes drooping, subcolumnar, sharp, straight, 

 very finely villose. It is a native of the East 

 Indies. 



The second species has the whole plant silky 

 and glaucous: the stem suflruticosc, upright, 

 branched, round, from half a yard to three 

 quarters of a yard in height, and gray: branches 

 alternate, stiff, round, finely silky, and hoary : 

 the leaves alternate, petioled, two-paired (seldom 

 ternate), spreading, three inches Jong : leaflets 

 opposite, subsessite (the end one larger and pe- 

 tioled), quite entire, bluntish, the older ones 

 subemarginate, the midrib raised only under- 

 neath, finely silky, glaucous, spreading, flat, 

 from twelve to fifteen lines in length, and from 

 6ix to eight lines in breadth : the petioles round 

 on one side, grooved on the other : the racemes 

 axillary, solitary, upright, shorter than the 

 leaves, an inch and baft long : the flowers on 

 short, alternate, reflex pedicels, and drooping. 

 It is a native of Egypt or the West Indies. 



The third is distinguished by the whiteness of 

 the stem and the under-side of the leaves ; the 

 flowers are red, not many (five to eight or nine) 

 in a spike. It is a native of the Cape, flowering 

 from July to September : but it.-, principal time 

 of flowering,- according to Mr. Curtis, is from 

 the beginning of May to the middle of June. 



The fourth is a native of the Cape, flowcrm;; 

 in March and April. 



Culture. — The tiist sort of these plants may 

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