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The seeds should be sown in pots of light 

 mould in the eariv spring, plunging them in a 

 bark hot-bed. When the plants have attained 

 some inches growth, they should be removed 

 into separate" pots of a small size, and be re- 

 plunged in the bark-bed, due shade and air being 

 given. The plants should afterwards, when 

 they have acquired strength, be removed into an 

 airy glass-case, or dry stove, where they may 

 have a large share of air in warm weather, but be 

 protectedl'iom the cold. This is necessary for 

 ihe young plants, which should not the first 

 \ ear 'be exposed to the open air, but after- 

 wards thev mav be placed abroad in the warm- 

 part of summer, 3nd in winter be placed 

 upon stands in the dry stove, where they will 

 continue Ions in flower, and many of the 

 sorts ripen their seeds. In winter nicy should 

 be sparingly watered, as much moisture rots their 



roots. 



The cuttings should be planted in pots in the 

 soring and summer months, as in July, and be 

 pranged in a moderate hot-bed, due shade be- 

 ing; given. 



Thev soon take root, and should afterwards 

 be removed into separate pots filled with light 

 earth, and managed in the same manner as those 

 raised from seed. 



Thev afford ornament and variety among coi- 

 ns of stove and green-house plants. 

 LARCH TREE. "See Pin us. 

 LARKSPUR. See Delphinium. 

 L.VfHYRUS, a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous climbing flowery kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadelphia 

 DecandricT, and ranks in the natuial order of 

 Papilionncete or Legnminosa? . 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianfhium, half five-cleft, bell-shaped : 

 divisions lanceolate, sharp : the two upper ones 

 shorter; the low est longer: the corollapapiliona- 

 ceous : standard obcordate, very large, reflex on 

 the sides and tip : wings oblong, lunulate, short, 

 obtuse : keel half-orbiculate, size of the wings, 

 and wider than the wings, gaping inwards in the 

 middle : the stamina have diadelphous filaments, 

 (single and nine-cleft) rising upwards : anthers 

 roundish : the pistillum is a compressed germ, 

 oblong, linear: style erected upwards, flat, wider 

 «4>0ve, with sharp' tip : stigma, from the middle 

 of the style to the tip villose in front : the peri- 

 verv long, cvlindric or com 



be cultivatd where 



Several other species may 

 variety is wanted. 



The first is an annual plant, which rises from 

 three to four feet high by means of its long 

 claspers or tendrils : the flower-stalks come out 

 at the joints, are about six inches long, and sus- 

 tain two larse flowers, which have a strong 

 odour, and are succeeded by oblong hairy pods, 

 having four or five roundish seeds in each. It 

 is a native of Sicily. 



There are several varieties ; as the purple- 

 flowered, the white-flowered, the variegated or 

 painted ladv, sweet-scented, and the scarlet. 



The second species has the stem four or five 

 feet high: the lea lets veined: the peduncles 

 short, sustaining two large flowers with purple 

 standards, the wings and keel bright red: 

 the legumes long, jointed, containing several 

 seeds. 



Martyn observes, the whole plant is very 

 smooth : the stem branched, running out on 

 each side- into a slender sharp wing : the petioles 

 angular, ending in bitid, trifid or simple tendrils : 

 the stipules lanceolate, acuminate, produced 

 downwards into an earlet, similar but much 

 smaller : the peduncles sometimes one-flow ered. 

 It is a native of Barbarv, flowering in June and 

 Julv ; and although it has not the agreeable 

 scent, or variety of colours, or continuance in 

 blow of the Sweet Pea, it is usually sown in 

 gardens with other annual seeds. 



The third has a perennial root : the stalks se- 

 veral, thick, climbing by means of tendrils to 

 the height of six or eight feet, or even higher 



in autumn 



these die to the ground n iuiw 

 ones rise in the spring from the 



in woods : 

 and new 



same root : the leaves stiff, marked with three 

 or five strong ribs, rolled in at the edge, blunt 

 at the end, but terminating in a little point or 

 bristle ; they are always in pairs, and on a w ing- 

 ed petiole; at the base of this are large stipules,. 

 shaped somewhat like the head of a halbert : tin- 

 tendrils multifid or branched : the peduncles 

 eieht or nine inches long. Each flower has an 

 awl-shaped bracte at the base of the pedicel : the 

 corolla pale purplish rose-colour : the legumes an 

 inch and half long, and half an inch in breadth. 

 It is a native of many parts of Europe, flower- 

 ing at the end of June and beginning of Julv. 



"It is a showv plant for shrubberies, wilder- 

 ness quarters, arbours, and trellis-work ; but too 

 lame and rampant for borders of the common 



carpi urn is a legume, 



pressed, acumuiite, one-celled, bivalve: the seeds flower-garden. 



several, cvlindric. globose, or but little cornered. There are manv varieties 



The species cultivated are: 1. L. odor at us, 

 Sweet Lathvrus, or Pea; 2. L. Tmgitetms, 

 Tangier Lathy rus, or Pea; 3. L. lutifoUus, 

 Broad-leaved i.attiyrus, or Everlasting Pea. 



as the red-flowered, 

 the purple-flowered, the scarlet-flowered, and 

 the large -flow ered. - 



Culture. — These plants may be readily raised, 

 bv sowing the seeds of the different sorts in the 



