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in the forenoon, ami in a northern MM, the first 

 thing in the morning; hut in a southern aspect, 

 ahout four o'clock in the afternoon. And when 

 northerly or easterly winds and frosty nights pre- 

 vail, ii should be discontinued nil the weath 

 comes mild. The trees should always get dry be- 

 fore night, and never be watered when the sun is 

 upon them. Care must likewise bo taken that 

 the grounds of the lime be not made use of, as 

 it would make the tre.s have a di e ap- 



I S : PofjBRON and Vink-Fretter. 



LIMODORUM, a genus containing | 

 of the bulbo-tuberous-rooted herbaceous peren- 

 nial kind 



It belongs to the class am! order Gyndndria 

 Diandria, and ranks in the natural order of Or- 

 chutete. 



The characters are : that the calyx has v 

 spathes: spadix simple : there is no perianth i a-: 

 the corolla, petal* the, ovate-oblong, about 

 equal, spreading: the superior ones converging : 

 nectary one-leafed, concave, footstalked, with- 

 in the lowest petal; the length of the petals:' 

 the stamina two : filament an oblong, ascend- 

 ing body, the length of the corolla: anthers 

 two, ovate, looking forwards: the pistillum 

 is a columnar germ, the length of the corolia; 

 inferior: style filiform, growing to the body of 

 the filaments: stigma funnel-form : the pericar- 

 piuin is a columnar capsule three- valved, one-cell- 

 ed, gaping at the corners : the seeds numerous, 

 saw-dust-like. 



The species cultivated are : 1. L. tuberosum, 

 Tuberous-rooted Limodorum : 2. L.altum, Tall 

 Limodorum : 3. L. Tunktrv'tllice, Chinese Li- 

 modorum. 



The first has a tuberous root : the stem a 

 foot and half high : the number of flowers not 

 exceeding five, dark purple : in a more luxuri- 

 ant state it is probabl) a larger plant, and pro- 

 duces more flowers. It is a native of North 

 America. 



The -econd species has a root shaped like 

 that of the true Saffron, but the outer co- 

 ver of a darker brown colour ; from this come 

 out two or three leaves nine or ten inches long, 

 and near three quarters of an inch broad in the 

 middle, being contracted towards both ends, 

 terminating with long acute points, folding 

 over each other at their base : they have five 

 longitudinal furrows, like the first leaves of 

 young palms : the Hower-stalk arises immedi- 

 ately from the root, on one side of the leaves ; 

 it is naked, smooth, and of a purplish colour 

 towards the top : it is near a foot and a half 

 high, and terminated by a loose spike of pur- 

 plish red flowers on short peduncles. The 

 bulb tubercled, roundish, of a fleshy and fibrose 



substance, covered with a coriaceous shining 

 skin, and havingtome torn . ,„ n _ 



demeath : the leave- from the bulb, vernal, two 

 feet long, broad -lanceolate, longitudinally folded 



at the nerves, even, verj like those of .1 young 

 plan, of the coco palm : scape simple, upright, 

 sometimes subdivided at top, two feet high, 

 even, round ; it has little sheaths on it, which 

 aie remote, pnvmorsc, embracing, netted, pale: 

 the flowers terminating, scattered, alternate, 

 Luge, purple, sometimes varying to white. It 

 is a native of the West Indie's, flowering in 

 June ami July. 



The third has a bulb fibrous root, from which 

 proceed three or four oblong, oval, pointed 

 leaves plaited and narrowed at the base, ahout a 

 foot and a half in length, and seven inches in 

 breadth in the middle part : the Bower-s 

 fis - from the root upwards of two feet in 

 height, and is furnished with along -pike of laMc 

 beautiful tloucrs, each consisting or live oblong 

 spreading petals of a pure white on their upper- 

 side, and brown underneath, with a large con- 

 cave nectarium tinged with red towards ^he ex- 

 tremity, and succeeded by a three-cornered co- 

 lumnar gernien inclosing the seeds. It is a 

 native of China, flowering in March and April. 



( ulture. — These plants are increased bv 

 planting the off-sets from the roots in pots of 

 bog earth, plunging them in the first sort in a 

 mild tan-pit, and in the others in the tan hot- 

 bed of the stove. The proper time of taking 

 them off is when the plants are the most desti- 

 tute of leaves. 



The two last sorts should have a loamv mould, 

 and but little water in the winter season. 



The first requires the protection of a 

 green-house in winter, and the two last must 

 be kept in the bark-bed of the stove. 



They afford variety in the green-house and 

 stove collections. 



LIMON. See Citrus. 



LINING HOT-BEDS, the practice of ap- 

 plying a layer of hot-dung to the sides of the 

 beds to revive and keep up the declining I 

 It is essentially necessary in the culture of 

 plants on dung hot-beds in early seasons in 

 winter or spring, until May. As the6e hot-beds 

 generally in from three or four to fiw or -i\ 

 weeks, according to their substance, begin to 

 decline in their degree of heat, they require 

 a revival to continue them in regular heat ; 

 which in dung hot-beds can only be eff 

 in this manner. It is applied to one or both 

 sides as there may be\>ceasion. 



Thus, by t he occasional repetition of two, three, 

 or more linings, a hot-bed is continued in a 

 proper degree of heat several months, as exem- 



