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and white. It is a native of Siberia, flowering 



i August 



The tenth species lias a perennial root: the 

 stenTammal, from three to four feet high : the 

 ieaves doubly pinnate ; each having three or 

 four pairs of oblong leaflets terminated by an 

 odd one : thev are two inches long, and almost 

 an inch broad, serrate, and ending in acute 

 points : the flowers disposed in long slender 

 spikes, formed into loose terminating panicles ; 

 they are small, white, and of two se.xes in the 

 same spike. It is a native of Germany, flower- 

 ing in June and July. 



The eleventh has a perennial root, consisting 

 ef oval tubers or solid lumps, hanging from the 

 main body by threads, which has given occasion 

 toits common names, Filipendula and Dropwort. 

 These tubers enable the herb to resist drought, 

 and render it very difficult to be eradicated : the 

 stem is erect, from a foot to a foot and half in 

 height, angular, smooth, leafy, a little branched 

 at top : the leaves alternate., interruptedly pin- 

 nate, serrate, and jagged, smooth, composed of 

 several pairs of leaflets, all of each set uniform 

 or nearly corresponding in size; the terminating 

 leafiet three-lobed : a pair of roundish united 

 indented stipules at the base of each leaf, em- 

 bracing the stem : the flowers many in a cymose 

 loose erect panicle, cream-coloured often tipped 

 with red, or red on the outside. It is an ele- 

 gant plant, which in gardens grows very luxuri- 

 ant, and has often double flowers. It flowers 

 early in July. 



The twelfth has a perennial fibrous root : the 

 stems erect, three or four feet high, angular and 

 furrowed, tinged with red, leafy, branched in 

 the upper part: the leaves interruptedly pinnate: 

 leaflets very unequal in size, sharply serrate, 

 clothed beneath with white down, the end one 

 remarkably large and three-lobcd : a pair of 

 rounded serrate stipules are joined to the com- 

 mon leaf-stalk, and clasp the stem : the flowers 

 white, in a large very compound cyme, the side- 

 branches of which rise much above the central 

 one : it perfumes the air with the sweet haw- 

 thorn-like scent of its plentiful blossoms from 

 June to August. 



There are varieties with double flowers, and 

 with variegated leaves. 



The thirteenth has a perennial root : the 

 stalks annual, about a foot high, sending out 

 branches from the side the whole length : the 

 leaves for the most part trifoliate, but sometimes 

 single or in pairs ; they are about an inch and 

 half long, and half an inch broad, ending in 

 acute points, sharply serrate, of a bright green 

 above, and pale beneath : the flowers in loose 

 terminating panicles, on slender peduncles. It 



is a native of North America, flowering in June 

 and July. 



Culture. — In all the shrubby sorts, this may 

 be performed by suckers, layers, and cuttings. 



The suckers should be taktn off in the au- 

 tumn and planted out where thev are to remain, 

 or in nursery-rows, to attain a fuller growth. 



The first sort requires to be cleared of these 

 suckers every two years at furthest. 



The lavers should be put down in the au- 

 tumn or in the spring, and may be taken off 

 and planted as above, in the autumn or spring 

 following : all the sorts may be raided in this 

 way ; but it is most proper for such sorts as do 

 not send off suckers. 



The cuttings may be made from the shoots 

 of the preceding summer, and be planted out in 

 a shad)' border in the early autumn : when they" 

 have become well rooted they may be removed 

 and managed as the others : they succeed in this 

 way with more difficulty than in either of the 

 others. 



All the herbaceous sorts may be increased by 

 seeds, or parting the roots. 



The seed may be sown in the autumn or early 

 in the spring ; but the first is the better mode, 

 on a bed of tine mould: when the plants- appear 

 they should be kept clear from weeds til! the au- 

 tumn, when they may be planted out where 

 they are to remain, or in the nursery tor a year 

 or two. 



The roots should be parted in the autumn or 

 spring, when the stems decav, beior-e they shoot 

 oiit new ones, being planted immediately where 

 thev are to grow. 



The double-flowered and stiped varieties can 

 only be preserved in this way. 



They all afford variety and ornament in the 

 shrubberv and other parts. 



SPONDIAS, a genus containing plants of the 

 exotic tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Decandria 

 Penlrigyuiu, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Terehintaccce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianth, subcampanulate, small, five- 

 cleft, coloured, deciduous : the corolla has five 

 oblong petals, flat, spreading*: the stamina have 

 ten awl-shaped filaments, erect, shorter than the 

 corolla, alternately longer: anthers oblong: the 

 pi still um is an ovate germ : styles Jive, short, 

 distant, erect : stigmas obtuse : the pericarpium 

 is an oblong drupe, large, marked with five dots 

 from the falling of the stvles ; ten-valved: the 

 seed is an ovate nut, woody, fibrous, five-corner- 

 ed ; live-celled, covered with a fleshy elastic aril. 

 The species is S. Momliii, Purple Hog- Plum, 

 or Spanish Plum. 



