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on the edges, pretty much veined, and stand 

 alternately: the flowers are produced from the 

 wings pt" the stalk; they are white, with one of the 

 segments of a yellowish tinge: it flowers in the 

 Jat erend of Mav. Itgrows naturally in Virginia. 



Culture. — This plant may be increased bv 

 seeds, layers, and occasionally by cuttings : the 

 seeds should be procured from abroad, and sown 

 in pots, filled with light earth, in the early 

 spring, plunging them in a good hot-bed, water- 

 ing them well now ; and when the plants are up 

 protecting them under frames, or in the green- 

 house, lor two or three winters, and hardening 

 them in the summer, then putting them into 

 small pots separately, in the spring placing them 

 in the hot -bed till fresh rooted, watering them 

 occasionally, and giving proper shade till fresh 

 rooted, then hardening them for the summer, 

 but protecting them in the following winter: 

 then in the spring following, when the weather 

 is fine and settled, turning them out with balls 

 about their roots into the open ground, placing 

 them in a warm situation. The young shoots 

 may be laid down early in the autumn", in the 

 slit method, watering them frequently in the 

 following spring and summer, and shading them 

 from excessive heat : when well rooted, "in the 

 following spring they may be taken off and 

 planted out in separate pots, plunging them in 

 a hot-bed till they have taken fresh roots, when 

 they should be managed as the others. 



The en' lings of the young shoots should be 

 planted out in the spring, in, pots of fine light 

 mould, plunging them in a hot-bed; and when 

 they have stricken good roots they may be re- 

 moved into separate pots and managed as the 

 others. 



These plants afford ornament and variety in 

 shrubberies, and among potted plants. 



STYltAX, a genus furnishing an aromatic 

 deciduous tree of the exotic kind. 



Jt belongs to the class and order JDecandria Mo- 

 n6gynia,&nii ranks in the natural order oi'Bicornes. 



The characters are: that the calyx isaone-ieafV 

 ed perianth, cylindric, erect, short, five-toothed : 

 the corolla one-petalled, funnel-form : tube 

 short, cylindric, length of the calyx: bolder 

 five-parted, large, spreading ; segments lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, the stamina have ten filaments, 

 erect, in a ring, scarcely united at the base, 

 awl-shaped, inserted into the corolla: anthers 

 oblong, straight: the pistilhim is a superior 

 germ, three-celled, many seeded: style simple, 

 length of the stamens: stigma truncate: the peri- 

 carpium is a roundish drupe, one-celled : the 

 seeds are nuts oneortwo, roundish, acuminate, 

 convex on one side, flat on the other. 



Hie species is S. oj/ichiale. Officinal Slorax. 



It rises in its native situation twelve or four- 

 teen feet high : the trunk is covered with a smooth 

 grayish bark, and sends out many slender 

 branches on every side ; the leaves about two 

 inches long, and an inch and half broad, of a 

 bright green on their upper side, but hoary on 

 their under ; the}' are entire, and placed alter- 

 nately on short footstalks : the flowers come 

 out from the side of the branches, upon pedun- 

 cles sustaining five or six flowers in a bunch ; 

 are white, and appear in June. It is a native of 

 Italy and the Levant. 



Culture. — It may be increased bv seeds, ob- 

 tained from abroad, by sowing them in pots of 

 light earth an inch deep ; and as thev are of a hard 

 stony nature, and rarely come up the first year, 

 the pots should be plunged under a frame during 

 cold weather, and be in the shade in summer, 

 and in the second spring be plunged in a hot-bed 

 to forward them, being careful to give water, and 

 to harden the young plants gradually to the full 

 air in summer, in a shadv place during the hot 

 weather, beins; often watered ; and in winter 

 the pots be replaced under a garden-frame, &c, 

 to have shelter from frost ; then in spring fol- 

 lowing let them be potted off separately, and 

 managed as hardy green-house plants for three 

 or four years, when some of them mav be turned 

 out into the full ground in a sheltered situation, 

 trained against a south wall, and some mav be 

 retained in pots for the green-house collection : 

 they afford ornament and variety in these diffe- 

 rent situations. 



STYRAX. See Liouidambar. 



SUBER. See Ouercus. 



SUCKERS, such young offspring plants 

 as arise immediately from the rootsof olderveee- 

 tables, and which, being generally furnished also 

 with roots, when transplanted, readily grow, and 

 become proper plants, similar to the mother ones. 



They are proper for increasing their kinds by in 

 many cases, and incertain instances asuremethod 

 to continue any approved or desirable species or 

 variety ; but in grafted and buckled trees, the 

 suckers partake only of the nature of the stock. 



Some sorts of trees furnish plenty every sum- 

 mer, which are often furnished with root-fibres, 

 affording proper plants for setting out in one 

 season, and of course become a ready means of 

 increase: in trees, &c, that are wholly the same 

 sort, root and ton, thev prove the same invari- 

 ably in every mode of growth, as certainly as by 

 layers, cuttings, grafting, &c. 



The season for taking up or transplanting 

 suckers of trees and shrubs, is almost any time, 

 in open weather, from October till March, being 

 careful to dig them up from the mother plant 

 with as much root-fibres as possible, and trim- 



