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abundance of narrow sharp leaves an inch in pots of light sandy earth in the autumn, ami pl'un- 

 length : the flowers many, small, blue, at the ged in the bark-bed ; and when the plants are three 

 tops of tlic twigs, among the leaves. It is a inches high, planted in Beparate pots, being re- 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope. plunged in the bark-bed, giving water and occa- 

 The. fifth is a biennial plant m this climate : sional shade till they are fresh rooted. They 

 the stems channelled, hairy, two feet huh : the must remain constantly in the hot-house, and 

 leaves about two inches long, and one broad in have frequent moderate waterings given them. 



["he first two sorts have a fine appearance m 

 the borders and clumps of pleasure-grounds, 

 where they will succeed when protected in winter 

 from frosts. 



And the tender sorts afford a fine variety in 

 hot-house collections. 



LOBLOLLY BAY. See Gordonia. 



LOCUST-TREE. See Ckratonia. 



LOGWOOD. See Hjbmatoxylom. 



LONDON-PRIDE. Sec Saxifbaoa, 



LONICERA, a genus containing plants of 

 the deciduous flowering shrubbv and evergreen 



the middle, sessile, light green : flowers smal 



on long, slender, axillary peduncles, forming a 

 loose spike: the corolla light blue. It flowers 

 in July, and is a native of Virginia, Sec. 



Culture. — The two first kinds may be in- 

 creased by seed, cuttings of their stalks, and 

 parting the roots. 



The seeds should be sown in autumn, or early 

 in spring, in a warm border, or in pots or boxes, 

 so as to be moved lo different situations in dif- 

 ferent seasons, to have shelter from frost, and 

 shade from the mid-day sun in summer. Those 



sown in autumn generally come up more freely kinds. 



the following spring than those which are It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 



sown in that season. They should have shelter Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 



in bard frosts, cither under a frame, or awning Aggregates. 



of mats, but be fully exposed in mild weather, The characters are : that the calyx is a five-part- 

 giving occasional waterings in the spring and ed, superior periarrthium, small : the corolla one- 

 summer. When the plants have attained two or petalled, tubular : lube oblong, gibbous : bolder 

 three inches growth, they should be pricked out five-parted : divisions revolutc, one of which is 

 in separate small pots of rich earth, giving \va- more deeply separated : the stamina have live 

 ter, and placing them in the shade" till fresh awl-shaped filaments, nearly the length or the 

 rooted, repeating the waterings occasionally in corolla: anthers oblong: the pistillum is a round- 

 hot dry weather, and shifting them into larger ish, inferior germ: style filiform, the length of 

 pots as they may require ; in winter movingthem the corolla: stigma obtuse-headed : the pericar- 

 into a frame to have occasional shelter from incle- piutn is an umbilicated, two-celled berry: the 

 men t weather; and in the spring following some seeds roundish, and compressed, 

 of them may be turned out into the full ground The species are : 1 . L. nigra, Black -berried 

 about March, when they will flower the ensuing Upright Honeysuckle; 2. L. Talarica, Tarta- 

 summer. Some should also be retained in pots to be rian Upright Honeysuckle; 3. L. Xylosteum, 

 moved under shelter in winter, as a reserve in case Fly Honeysuckle; 4. L. Pyrenaica, Pyrenean 

 those in the open air should be killed by frost. Upright Honeysuckle; 5. L. alpigena, Red- 

 As these plants generally flower in the greatest berried Upright Honeysuckle; 6. L. cceritlea, 

 perfection the first and second year of their Blue-berried Upright Honeysuckle ; 1 . L. si/m- 

 blowing, it is proper to raise a supply of new pkoricarpos, Shrubbv St. Peter's-wort ; b. L. 

 plants every year or two, in order to have them diervillu, Yellow - flowered Upright Iloney- 

 rlower in the utmost perfection every year. suckle ; 9. L. periclymenum, Common Honey- 

 Tbe cuttings of the young stalks should be di- suckle; 10. L. caprifolium, Italian Honey- 

 Tided into lengths of five or six inches, and be suckle; 11. L. sempervtrens^ Trumpet Honey- 

 planted in an easterly border, two parts deep, suckle; 18. L. grata, Evergreen Honey- 

 being covered down with hand-glasses, and wa- suckle. 



tere mally. They mostly emit roots, and The first is three or four feet in height: the 



form young plants in a month or six weeks; leaves are small, the younger ones hirsute, quite 



when the glasses should be taken away, and the entire, but plaited a little, so as to appear serrate: 



plan • managed as the others. stipules ovate-lanceolate: bractes two dry scales 



These hanty sorts sometimes afford off- sets from and thrc, transverse broad leaflets : the peduncles 



their sides at bottom, which u. larated in are axillary, slender, an inch long, opposite : the 



autumn, and potted for \oung plants, being ma- calyx broadish : the corolla purple on the outside, 



naged as the seedlings. white within, or quite while, pubescent: the 



'111. last three sorts may also be raised by seeds berries black, a little- oblong, containing three, 



procured frorn abroad, which should be sown in five, and sometimes ten seeds. It is a native of 



