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in this respect, as they generally succeed very open ground, and need only be covered in frosty 

 „ • . ' . ° weather; at all other times they should remain 



well without. , „ > , ., r j '.i 



The next business is, in every winter or fully expbsed, and, by degrees, as they acquire age 

 swing todig theground between the rows of all and strength, become inured to bear the open 

 sorts of transplanted plants in the open Nursery- air fully ; so as when they arrive at from two or 

 quarters, a practice which is particularly neces- three to tour or five years old, they may be 

 sarv to all the tree and shrub kinds that stand turned out into the open ground 

 wide cnourti inrows to admit the spade between The stove and green-house kinds must be 

 them • this work is by the Nurserv-men called managed according to the directions given un- 

 the most ceneral season for which der these heads. See Green-house Plants. 



NUT, BLADDER. See Staph yljea-. 

 NUT, CASHEU. See Anacardium. 

 NUT, COCOA. See Coces. 

 NUT, MALABAR. See Justicia. 

 NUT, PHYSIC. SeeJATROPHA. 

 NUT-TREE. See Corvlus. 

 NYCTANTHES, a genus containing plants 

 of the shrubby exotic flowering kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Sepiarice. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, truncate, quite en- 



turning-tn , 



is any time from October or November until 

 March; but the sooner it is done the more ad- 

 vantageous it will be to the plants. The ground 

 is to be dug only one spade deep in these cases, 

 proceeding row by row, turning the top of each 

 •ipit clean to the bottom, that all weeds on 

 the top may be buried a proper depth. It is a 

 most necessarv annual operation, both to destroy 

 weeds, and to increase the growth of the young 



plants. 



And in the summer season great attention is 

 necessary to keep all sorts clean from weeds ; the 

 seedlings growing close in the beds must be 



hand-weeded ; but among plants of all sorts that tire, permanent: the corolla one-petalled, salver- 

 grow in rows wide enough to admit the hoe, it shaped : the tube cylindric, the length of the 



will prove not only most expeditious, but, by 

 loosening; the top of the soil, promote the growth 

 of all kinds of plants. It should always be per- 

 formed in dry weather, and before the weeds 



3w large. See Hoe and Hoeing. 



As soon as any quarter or part of these 



gro 



calyx : border five-parted, spreading, with the 

 lobes two-lobed : the stamina have two filaments 

 in the middle of the tube, very short : anthers 

 oblong, the length of the tube : the pistillum is, 

 a superior germ, subovate : style filiform, the 

 length of the tube : stigmas two, acute : the pe- 



grounds are cleared from plants, others ricarpium is an obovate capsule, compressed, with 

 must be introduced in their room from the an emarginate dagger-point, coriaceous, two- 

 seminary ; the ground being previously trench- celled, bipartite : cells parallel, appressed, valve- 

 ed over for the purpose, giving it the addition less: the seeds are solitary, obovate, convex on 

 of manure if necessary. one side, flat on the other, fastened to the bottom 



It is supposed by some to be of advantage to of the cell. • 



plant the around with plants of a different kind The species cultivated is: N. arbor tristis, 



from those which occupied it before ; but this Square-stalked Nyctanlhes. Other species may 



is probably not very material. - be cultivated for variety. 



The tender or exotic plants of all kinds that It is a shrub, with four-cornered 



require shelter only from frost whilst young, 

 and bv degrees become hardy enough to live in 

 the open air, should, such of them as are seed- 

 lings in the open ground, have the beds arched 



rugged 

 branches : the leaves are opposite, petioled, 

 ovate, oblong, quite entire, longer than the 

 branch-joints, rugged on both sides : the pedun- 

 cles axillary, opposite, solitary, four-cornered, 



over with hoops, or rods, at the approach of shorter by half than the leaf, two-leaved at top, 



winter in order to be sheltered with mats in with three-flowered pedicels : the partial involu- 



severe weather; and those which are in pots, ere four-leaved? the leaflets are obovate, the 



either seedlings or transplanted plants, should length of the calyxes, blunt, containing three 



be removed in October in their pots to warm sessile florets : the corolla funnel-shaped, with 



sunny situations sheltered with hedges, Sec. plac- a six- or eight-cleft border : the capsule coriace- 



ino- some close under the fences facing the sun, ous, superior, obcordate or obovate, turgidly 



where they may have occasional covering of mats lenticular, in the twin, middle ventricose and 



in frosty weather; others that are more tender be- marked with a longitudinal elevated streak, com- 



ing placed in frames, to have theoccasional cover- pressed at the sides into a narrow sharp margin, 



inl' either of glass-lights 6r mats, &c. observing the rest brittle, two-celled, bipartite; with the 



that they are gradually to be hardened to the segments plano-convex, of a brown chestnut 

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