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two or three months where it is necessary; but 

 it is better to replant them as above. 



Culture in Glasses. — It is sometimes the 

 practice to cultivate the Polyanthus Narcissus 

 and some of the large Jonquil kind in glasses in 

 rooms, in order to blow in the winter or early 

 sprine; season. For this purpose dry firm bulbs 

 should be chosen, and one placed in each single 

 glass or bottle provided for the purpose, any time 

 from October till the spring, being then filled 

 up to the roots of the bulbs with soft water, and 

 deposited inalight warm place: in'this method the 

 plants soon begin to grow, and send forth flower- 

 stems, afTordiiig good flowers, which have a very 

 ornamental appearance. 



The principal circumstances to be regarded in 

 this management are, those of kecpingthe glasses 

 well supplied with fresh portions of water, so as 

 constantly to be up to the lower part of the 

 roots, and changing the whole, so as to keep it 

 always in a pure state. 



They may likewise be raised in pots filled with 

 light sandy mould, and placed in the same 

 situations. 



Also in hot-houses, they may be made to 

 blow early, when kept either in pots or 

 glasses. 



When planted out in the manner mentioned 

 above, in the borders, clumps, and other parts 

 ot pleasure-grounds, they are most of them 

 highly ornamental, producing much variety in 

 the early spring months. 



All the different principal sorts may be pro- 

 cured from the seeds-men in London, who 

 import them for sale from Holland, where they 

 are raised in large quantities. 



NASTURTIUM. See Tromolum. 



NAVELWORT. See Cotyledon and Cy- 



NOGLOSSUM. 



NAVEVV. Sec Brassica. 



NECTARINE. See Amygdalus. 



NELUMBO. SeeNvMPHJEA. 



NKPETA, a genus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dhh/namia 

 Gymnoipcrmia, and ranks in the natural order 

 of VcrticillatCB. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, cylindric: mouth 

 five-toothed, acute, erect : upper toothless lon- 

 ger ; lower more spreading : the corolla is one- 

 petalled, ringent: tube cylindric, curved inwards : 

 border gaping, opening, spreading, cordate,end- 

 ing in two reriex blunt very short segments : up- 

 per lip erect, roundish, emarginatc ; lower round- 

 ish, concave, larger, entire, crenulate : the sta- 

 mina have four awl-shaped filaments beneath 

 the upper lip, approximating, two of them 



shorter : anthers incumbent : the pistiillum is a 

 four-cleft germ : style filiform, length and situa- 

 tion of the stamens : stigma bifid, acute: there 

 isnopericarpiuni : calyx straight, containing the 

 seeds in its bosom : the seeds four, and sub- 

 ovate. 



The species cultivated are: 1. N, cataria, 

 Common Catmint ; 2. N. Pannonica, Hunga- 

 rian Catmint; 3. N. nuda, Naked or Spanish 

 Catmint ; 4. N. Ilalica, Italian Catmint ; 5. A 7 ". 

 tuberosa, Tuberous-rooted Catnnnt. 



The first has a perennial root, from which 

 arise many branching stalks, two feet high and 

 more, upright, pubescent: the leaves are of a 

 velvet-like softness, wrinkled, ash-coloured or 

 hoary, particularly underneath : spikes composed 

 of interrupted whorls terminate the stem, and 

 comeout in branches from the axils of the leaves: 

 the flowers are subsessile, and separated at the 

 base by a small lanceolate bracte : the calyx 

 downy with green ribs : the corolla white, with 

 a tinsre of red, and spotted with purple : 

 the whole plant has a strong scent between Mint 

 and Pennyroyal. It is called Catmint, from 

 cats being very fond of it. It is a native of 

 most parts of Europe, flowering from July to 

 September. 



The second species has a perennial root, 

 branched, woody, the size of a quill or more, 

 brown on the outside, knobbed at the end : the 

 stems several, from three to four feet in height, 

 grooved, smoothish, with opposite branches 

 forming a panicle : the leaves oblong, blunt, 

 scarcely cordate, bluntly serrate, smooth, the 

 lower ones on longer petioles, the upper ones on 

 very short ones ; they are successively smaller as 

 they approach the racemes, till they become so 

 small that the ends of the racemes seem to be 

 leafless : the racemes are axillary and opposite, 

 containing about twenty flowers : the bractes 

 almost bristle-shaped : the calyx somewhat vil- 

 lose and striated : the corolla inore or less red ; 

 in the cultivated plant very deep, and elegantly 

 dotted. It is a native of Hungary, &c., flowering 

 from August to October. 



The third has the stems two feet high, smooth, 

 strict, four-grooved; the older ones dark purple : 

 the leaves blunt, veined, naked, rugged on both 

 sides: the racemes brachiate : the bractes linear: 

 the flowers distinct: the corollas w hitish-rufes- 

 cent, with the beard of the palate white, and 

 the throat dotted with purple. According to 

 Haller, the flowers are blue and white. It is a 

 native of the South of Europe, flowering from 

 June to August. 



In the fourth species, 1he stalks seldom 

 rise more than a foot and half high, sending 

 out very few branches: the whorls of flowers 



