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which arise a greal number of stamens, with an 

 unequal number of germs, from the to eight 

 or nine, oblong and compressed : the capsules 

 are joined together on their inner side, terminate 

 in horns, open longitudinally, and contain many 

 thin compressed seeds, having borders round 

 them. It is a native of Syria, flowering from 

 .Ink to September. 



Culture. — They are all increased by sowing 

 the seeds on light earth where the plants are to 

 remain, as they seldom succeed well when trans- 

 planted in patches at proper distances , and when 

 the plants are come up, they should be thin- 

 ned, leaving onlv three or four in each patch, 

 keeping them afterwards clear from weeds. 



The oest season for sowing is March ; but if 

 some be sown in August, soon after they be- 

 come ripe, on a drv soil and in a warm situation, 

 thev will abide the winter, and flower strong the 

 Succeeding year. Bv sowing the seeds at dif- 

 ferent times, they may be continued in beauty 

 most part of the summer season. 



As thev are all annual plants, they require to 

 be raised every year. 



The varieties' with double flowers are chiefly 

 introduced into Rower gardens. 



They afford ornament and variety among other 

 annuals in the clumps and borders. 



NIGHTSHADE. See Solaxim. 



NOLANAj a genus containing a plant of the 

 herbaceous trailing annual kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Moiwgynia. and ranks in the natural order of 

 Asperijolice, or Luridce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, turbinate at the base, five- 

 parted, five-cornered : segments cordate, acute, 

 permanent : the corolla is one-petalled, bell- 

 shaped, plaited, spreading, somewhat five-lobed, 

 twice as large as the calvx : the stamina have 

 five awl-shaped filaments, erect, equal, shorter 

 than the corolla: anthers sagittate : the pistillum 

 is as five roundish srerms : style among the 

 germs, cylindric, straight, the length of the sta- 

 mens : stigma capitate: the pericarpium pro- 

 none : (drupes five, decumbent, three- or 

 i. ■ • -celled :) the seeds live, with a succulent rind, 

 roundish, with the inner base naked, immersed 

 in the receptacle, two-celled and four-celled 

 (soli;. 



The species is A T . pros tr a fa, Trailing Xo- 

 lana. 



It has an annual root, simple, filiform, often 



three Feet long, blackish : the stem a foot long, 



herbaceous, prostrate, roundish, very smooth, 



white dots scattered over it : the branches 



..;tc, the lower ones the length of the stalk : 



the leaves alternate, two together, reflex, rhomb- 

 ovate, quite entire, blunt, somewhat fleshy, ah 

 inch long, somewhat papulose, even, flat, veined, 

 unequal, alternately larger and smaller. Accord- 

 ing to Miller thev come out single at some 

 joints, by pairs at others, and Frequently three or 

 four at the upper joints : the petioles aucipilal, 

 scarcely shorter than the leaves, smooth, those 

 belonging to the upper leave.- vaguely ciliate : the 

 peduncles lateral, solitary, spreading a little, an 

 inch long, one-flowered, round, thicker at top, 

 hairy: the flowers inferior. It is a native of 

 Java. 



Culture. — These plants maybe raised by -.ow- 

 ing the seeds on a hot-bed in March. When 

 the plants are fit to remove, they should be 

 planted out singly into small pots fillet] with 

 light earth, plunging them into a fresh hot-bed 

 to bring them forward. When their flowers 

 open in the summer, as July, they should have 

 a large share of air admitted when the weather 

 is warm, to prevent their failing away without, 

 producing seeds. Under this management the 

 plants often continue flowering till the early frosts 

 destroy them, and ripe seeds are produced in the 

 beginning of the autumn. 



They afford variety among other tender an- 

 nuals. 



NOLI ME TANGERE. See Impatiexs. 



NONE-SO-PRETTY. See Saxifraga. 



NOSE-BLEED. See Achillea*. 



NUCIPFRSICA. SeeAMYGDALcs. 



NURSERY, a portion of ground set apart 

 for the raising and nursing various sorts of trees, 

 shrubs, and herbaceous plants to proper states of 

 crowthfor supplying the different gardens, orch- 

 ards, plantations, and other departments. 



In these situations are raised all the different 

 sorts of fruit-trees, and fruit-bearing shrubs, by 

 nursinn and training them up to proper sizes 

 and growths for planting where thev are to re- 

 main to produce their fruit, as well as the vast 

 train of forest- trees, hardy ornamental trees, and 

 deciduous and ever-green shrubs, training them 

 up properly for the purposes for which thev are 

 designed in plantations and pleasure-grounds. 



And various sorts of hardy herbaceous | 

 both of the fibrous-, bulbous-, am us- 



rooted kinds may be here provided in propel 

 tor being planted out. 



These different sorts ol plants arc raisi 

 seed, suckers, layers, cutting-. -..; ■. off-sets, 

 parting the roots, grafting, budding, Jfec. as di- 

 rected under their several heads. 



And as some of the various sorts are drawn 

 off annually, to supply different situations, a 

 fresh supply of voting plants should be accoid- 



