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Culture. — All those plants, except llie fifth 

 sort, may be increased either by seeds, layers, 

 or cuttings. The latter methods arc proper for 

 the Savin kinds. 



The seeds or berries should be sown in beds 

 of light earth, in the early autumn or spring, 

 but the former 1-. the better in light soiN, in a 

 warm sheltered situation, in the open ground, 

 being well raked in. The beds should be kept 

 perfectly clear from weeds, and the young plants 

 be occasionally watered during the summer sea- 

 son. When the plants have had two years' 

 growth in these beds, and are become strong, 

 they should be removed into nursery rows at two 

 feet apart, and a foot or eighteen inches distant 

 in the rows. They should remain in these situ- 

 ations till of proper growth to be planted out 

 where they are to remain. 



The layers of the young branches should be 

 laid down at either of the above seasons, and, 

 when well rooted taken off", and planted in the 

 nurserv, in the same manner as the seedling 

 plants. 



The cuttings should be made from the young 

 branches, and be planted in a shady border, in 

 the latter end of summer, watering them occa- 

 sionally till they have stricken good root ; when 

 thev may be taken up with earth about their 

 roots, and be managed in the same manner as 

 bv the other methods. 



The plants raised in these last ways seldom 

 grow so upright, or to so large a size, as in the 

 Seed method. 



The common upright and striped Savins may 

 likewise be increased by planting slips of the 

 vounc branches; for the last sort the most va- 

 riegated being made use of, in the latter end of 

 summer, or in the autumn, in a shaded border, 

 due water being given. When the plants are 

 come up, they must be managed as the other sorts. 



The fifth sort must be sown in pots or tubs, 

 at the same seasons as the other sorts, being 

 placed in a frame to have the protection of 

 glasses when the weather is frosty and severe. 

 As the- seeds are long in coming up, the mould 

 in the pots, Sec. must remain undisturbed till 

 they appear, being shaded from the sun, and 

 slightly watered occasionally. The young plants 

 should be kept quite-free from weeds, and be 

 dulv watered till they have attained sufficient 

 growth to be removed into separate small pots, 

 filled with light earth, which is generally when 

 from one to two years old. In removing them, 

 they should have balls of earth pteserved about 

 their roots, and be watered, and "placed in a 

 warm situation. The best season for this is in 

 the earlv spring. But it is of great advantage 

 to plunge the pots in a mild hot-bed. They 



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must be protected in the winter, either in frames, 

 or under a warm fence, the pots being plti 

 in the earth. Winn they have been removed into 

 different larger pots till of sufficient large growth, 

 they may he planted out where they are to 

 grow, which should he in a ■> arm situati )n. Jt 

 is proper to shelter them the first two winters 

 during severe frosts, by mats, or other similar 

 coverings. 



The proper periods for removing ail the dif- 

 ferent sorts into the open ground, are in the 

 earlv autumn or spring months. 



These plants all succeed in the open ground, 

 and grow in any common soil and situation, 

 with other hardy plants of the tree kind, though 

 they are the most prosperous in a light sandy 

 soil, where the aspect is sheltered. 



In placing these kinds of plants in the clumps 

 ami shrubbery plantations, attention should be 

 had to arrange them according to their degrees 

 of growth, so as to exhibit a regular gradation 

 of height, placing the low-growing sorts, as 

 the common Juniper and Savin kinds, towards 

 the fronts, and the other larger growing sorts 

 more backwards, in assemblage with other or- 

 namental shrubs and trees of the evergreen 

 tribe; and some may be placed as single stand- 

 ards, onopenspacesof short grass, in the pleasure- 

 ground quarters. Some of the large-growing 

 sorts may also be introduced into the forest-tree 

 plantations; as they have a fine effect, and 

 afford excellent timber for many uses, more par- 

 ticularly the Virginia Cedar, which arrives at a 

 considerable size, especially when the under 

 branches are trimmed off occasionally while 

 voting. 



JUPITER'S BEARD. See Anthvxlis. 



JLJSTICIA, a genus containing plants of the 

 shrubbv and herbaceous kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Ditmdria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Personates. 



The characters are : that the calvx'is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, very small, live-parted, 

 acute, upright, narrow : the corolla one-petal- 

 led, ringent: tube gibbose : border two-lipped : 

 lip superior oblong, emarginate: lip inferior, 

 of the same length, reflex, trilid : the stamina 

 haw two awl-shaped filaments, hid under tlu- 

 upper lip : anthers upright, bifid at the base : 

 the pistillum is a top-shaped germ : style fili- 

 form, length and situation of the star., 

 stigma simple: the pericarpium is an oblong 

 capsule, obtuse, narrowed at the base, two- 

 celled, two-valved : the partition opposite to 

 the valves, gaping with an elastic claw : the 

 seeds roundish. 



The species cultivated arc: 1. J. sexangb ■ 



