LOP 



LOT 



■gainst walls and arbours, Sec., for the orna- 

 ment and fragrance of their flowers, laving their 

 branches in four or live inches asunder; thin- 

 ning out the superabundant shoots annually, 

 and training in souk- of the most robust for 

 succession wood, either at full length, or short- 

 ened as mo-t proper to fill the space. 



The evergreen kinds are principally of the 

 climbing tribe, and have much effect in their 

 evergreen foliage and the elegance of their 

 flowers, as well as in their long continuance in 

 blow. 



LOOKIXG-OEASS PLANT. See Heri- 



TIBBA. 



LOOSE-STRIFE See Anagallis. 



LOPPING TREES, the practice of cutting 

 off the boughs or branches of pollard or other 

 trees. This work should be done with great 

 care and attention, so as to prevent the decay 

 of the trees. 



Loppingof trees, at tenor twelve vears growth, 

 is said to preserve them much longer, and oc- 

 casion the shoots to grow more into wood in 

 one year than they do in old tops in two or 

 three. When great boughs are ill taken off, it 

 often spoils the trees; they should therefore 

 always be spared, unless there is an absolute 

 necessity. When they must be cut off, it 

 should be close and smooth, and not parallel to 

 the horizon, covering the wound with loam 

 and horse-dung mixed, or some of Mr. Forsyth's 

 composition, to prevent the wet from entering 

 the bodies of the trees and destroving them. 



There arc various signs of the decay of trees; 

 as, the withering or dying of their top branches; 

 the wet entering at a knot ; their being hollow, 

 or discoloured ; their making but poor shoots, 

 and woodpeckers making hole* in them. 



Nothing i- more injurious to the growth of 

 timber-trees, than that of lopping or cutting off 

 the great branches from them; as they grow 

 better without it, and do not decav so soon. 



The dead branches should however be re- 

 moved. 



The proper seasons for this sort of business, 

 are the very early autumn and spring months. 



All sorts of resinous tret--, or such as abound 

 with a milky juice, should be lopped verv si l- 

 ringly, as they are subject to decav when often 

 lopped. The. best Beason for lopping • 



is the latter end of summer or beginning 

 of autumn ; they then seldom bleed much, and 

 the wounds are eoinmonlv healed over before 

 the colli weather sets in. 



lew sorts of ornamental tree' should be 

 much lop|x-d, ttly injures their beauty 



and appearance. The only thing necessary, is 

 to take off such straggling branches as may grow 



Vol. II. 



in an awkward or improper direction. Sae 

 Pruning of Trees. 



This sort of work is mostly performed with a 

 saw, hedging-bill, or ax. 



LORANTHUS, a genus containing a plant 

 of the exotic kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 



The characters are: that the calyx has the pcri- 

 anthiumofthe fruit inferior: margin entire, con- 

 cave ; of the flower superior, or the margin entire, 

 concave: the corolla has six, oblong petals, revo- 

 lute, equal : the stamina have six aw l-shaped fila- 

 ments, fastened to the ba-e^ of the petals, the 

 length of the corolla : anthers oblong j the pis- 

 tilluin is an oblong germ, between the two calyx- 

 es, or inferior : style simple, the length of the 

 stamen-: stigma blunt : the pericarpuim is au. 

 oblong berry, one-celled: the seed oblong. 



The species cultivated is L. AmericAnus, 

 American Loranthus. 



Its branches are subdivided, leaf)', smooth, 

 pale green, brittle : the leaves pettolcd, oppo- 

 site, entire, subcoriaceous, nerved, and pale : 

 the petioles short, compressed, smooth : the 

 racemes subdivided, terminating, with three- 

 cornered branchlets ; the last pedicels trifid. 

 one-dowered : the flowers red. 



It ramps over the highest trees in Jamaica, 

 8cc, especially the Cocco/ola grandifolia, with 

 the root adhering firmly to the bark like Mis- 

 tletoe. 



Culture. — This plant may be increased by 

 sowing the seeds as soon as they are fully 

 ripened, in pots of light rich earth, being kept 

 in a mild hot-bed until the beginning of the 

 autumn, when they must Ik- plunged in the bark 

 hot-bed of the stove, being afterwards treated 

 as other lender plants of the same kind. 



It affords variety in stove collections. 



LORDS AND-LADIES. See Ahum. 



LOTE-THEE. See Celtis. 



LOTUS, a genus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous and under-shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diatlr/phii 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 PapUioBacete or Lespiminosee. 



The characters are : tbatthecalyx is a sin ip'e um- 

 bel : perianthiurp one-leafed, tubular, half-five- 

 cleft : teeth acute, wpial, erect, permanent: the co- 

 rolla papilionaceous: banner roundish, benl down: 

 ■long, concave .- wmgs roundish, sh irter 

 than the banner, broad, converging upwards : 

 keel gibbous below, closed above, 

 ascending, short : the stamina have diadelphous 

 filaments, simple and nine-cleft, . . 



with broadish tips : anthers small, simple : the 



