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M A H 



! fire or six in width, narrowiner to and when turned out, matted occasional^' ' '" se- 



length, and 



a point al each extremity, placed at the ends of 

 -the branches in a circular manner, someu hat 

 like an umbrella, whence its name : the flowers 

 are composed of ten, eleven, or twelve large, 

 oblong, white petals ; the outer ones hanging 

 down": the seed-vessels are oblong, conical, be- 



vere winters, retaining some in pots to be ma- 

 naged as green - house plants of the more 

 hardy kind. 



The lavers should be laid down in autumn or 

 spring, choosing the young pliable shoots tor 

 the purpose, giving them a gentle twist, or a 

 n three and four inches in length, and about slit in the partlaid into the earth. Some will be 

 an inch and half in diameter. The wood is soft well rooted in one year, others probably net m 

 an'l spongy; and the leaves drop off at the be- less than two; then lake them off, and plant 

 ginning of winter. It is a native of Carolina, each in a pot in the early spring, plunging them 

 Virginia &c. m a moderate hot-bed for a month or two, 



Culture.— These plants may all be increased to promote their growing freely at first,, 

 bv seed, lavers, and cuttings.' and they will form good strong plants by the 



' In the first mode, the seed, which is received following autumn, allowing them shelter in 

 annually from America, preserved in sand, early winter for a year or two, when they may be 

 in the spring, should be sown as soon after as planted out. 



possible in pots of light rich earth, half an inch The cuttings should be made from the short 

 deep, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed, young shoots of the preceding year, and be 

 to brino- up The plants an inch or two in height, or planted in pots of good earth, plunging them to 

 in the common earth under a warm wall or hedge, the rims in the common or stove hot-bed, giving 

 or in a frame, in the full sun, till the middle water and occasional shade; some of them will 

 or latter end of April, then replunging them in be rooted the same year, when they must be 

 an easterly border open to the morning sun ; inured by degrees to the open air, after which, 

 givino- moderate sprinklings of water in dry they may be managed as the layers, 

 weather. The plants will "rise the same year; The first or evergreen sort is one of the most 

 those in the hot-bed, probably in April, and the beautiful trees in nature, both in its growth,, 

 others in May, inuring those' in the first situa- and in the luxuriance of its noble leaves, 

 lion timely to the full air. The plants should which render it singularly conspicuous at alt 

 all summer be regularly supplied with water, and seasons. 



at the approach of winter be removed into a The deciduous sorts are also highly orna- 

 green-house, or rather under a garden-frame, mental trees, and may be introduced into clump* 

 to be sheltered from frost all winter, indulging and shrubberies, where by their fine foliage 

 them with the open air in mild weather. If the they exhibit an elegant variety, 

 pots be plunged in a bark hot-bed, &c. about All the different species are cultivated in the 

 March, under a frame, two or three months, it nurseries, for sale, from which they maybe taken 

 will forward the plants greatly; being careful up and planted outin the early spring or autumn 

 to crive water, and harden them to the open air months; but the former is the better. 

 gradually, so as to be removed into it in their In their disposition in the shrubbery, as they 

 pots fully in June, to remain till the autumn, are rathertender in theirearly growth, they should 

 when they should be allowed shelter in winter, have a sheltered sunny situation, in a rather dry 

 as before.' The spring following, they should soil, being planted in the most conspicuous 

 be planted into separate pots, and plunged into places, and not too closely crowded with other 

 a hot-bed as before to set them forward, giving shrubs. 



water, occasional shade, and the benefit of free They have also a good effect when disposed 

 air ; and in June removing the pots to a shady singly in different parts, in open spaces of short 

 border for the remainder of the summer. In grass-ground, in sheltered situations; especially 

 winter they should have shelter as before, from the firsl sort. 



severe frost, but have the full air in all open MAHh'.RNIA, a genus containing plants of 

 v- eather. They require the same care for two or the shrubby exotic kind, for the green-house, 

 three v. inters, when some of them may be turn- It belongs to the class and order Poitandria 

 ed out of the pots with bails of earth about their Pcntagynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 roots, into the full ground, in a warm sheltered Culinnnij'ercB. 



situation, particularly the deciduous kinds ; but The characters arc : that the calyx is a one- 

 ihe first or evergn en sort should not be too soon leafed perianthium, five-cleft, bell-shaped ; with 

 exposed to the winter's cold, but be continued in awl-shaped longer teeth; permanent: the co- 

 occasional shelter in the above manner four rolla has five heart-shaped petals, oblong, spread- 

 er five, years, till two, three, or more feet high; ing, twice as long as the calyx: nectaries live, 



