TAX 



TAX 



short: anther cvlindric, tubular, lcn<rtli of the 

 cornileL, tailed at the base: the pistillura is a 

 superior germ, oblong: style twice as long is 

 twer: stigmas two, gaping; there is no 

 pcricarpium : calyx unchanged: the seeds soli- 

 tary, oblong: down hairy, investing th< 

 all round : lite receptacle hairy, very small, 

 lijirs length of the calyx. 



The species cultivated is T. camphoratus, 

 Shmhbv African Fleabane. 



h has a strong woody stem, rising to the 

 height of twelve or fourteen feet, sending out 

 many woody branches at the top, w Inch mav be 

 trained to a regular bead : the leaves are in shape 

 like those of the Broad leaved Sallow, having a 

 downy surface like Sage, and their under sides 

 white j in smell they resemble Rosemary leaves 

 when bruised : the flowers are produced in spikes 

 at the extremity of the shoots, but, being of a 

 dull purple colour, do not make much show : 

 they appear in autumn, and continue ureat 

 past of the winter. It retains its leaves all the 

 year, and is a native of the Cape. 



Culture. — This plant mav be increased bv 

 ■cuttings, which should be planted out in the 

 ■spring or early summer seasons in pots filled 

 with light mould, giving them shade and water 

 occasionally. They soon strike root, and in three 

 or four months may be potted off into separate 

 pots, affording them shade and water as before, 

 and placing them under shelter. They also 

 strike root in the summer season when planted 

 in a common border and covered with hand- 

 glasses, and may in these cases be potted off in 

 the autumn. 



They afterwards require the management of 

 other hardy green-house plants. 



Thev alVord variety in these situations. 



TARRAGON, See Abtbmisia. 



TAXI'S, a genus furnishing a plant of the 

 v evergreen tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dioecia Mo- 

 iiudelpliia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Coin) 



The characters arc: that in the male there is 

 no calyx, except a bud like a four-leaved peri- 

 anth: corolla none: the stamina have numerous 

 filaments, united at bottom into a column, 

 longer than the bud : anthers depressed, blunt 

 -at the ederc, eight-cleft, gaping every way at 

 the base, and, when they have discharged their 

 pollen, flat, peltate, and remarkable for their 

 cight-ckft margin: female — the calyx as in the 

 male: corolla none : the pistillum is an ovate- 

 acuminate germ : style none: stigma obtuse: the 

 pericarpiuin is a berry from the receptacle, elon- 

 •gated into a pra'putium globular, succulent, gap- 

 ~ Vox.. II. 



ing at the top, coloured, at length waatio| 

 dryness^ and evanescent : the seed on . 

 oblong, prominent at the lop, beyond il. ■ berry. 



The ^:> ctes cultivated is /'. uaeoata, Com- 

 mon Yew-tree. 



It has a straight trunk, with a smooth deci- 

 duous bark : the wood very hard, tough, and of 

 a line grain: the leaves thickly set, I, 

 smooth, evergreen: the flowers axillary, 

 veloped with imbricate braetcs : the nule on 

 tree, sulphur-coloured, without a calyx ; the 

 female on another, with a small green calyx, 

 sustaining the oval flaltish seed; which calyx at 

 length becomes red, soft, and full of a sweet 

 slimv pulp. It is a native of Europe, North 

 America, &c. 



It varies with very short leaves, with broad 

 shining leaves, and with striped or variegated 

 leaves. 



Culture. — In this tree the increase may be 

 effected by seeds, and sometimes bv layers and 

 cuttings. 



After having procured a quantity of the Yen 

 berries, and divested them of the pulp or mucilage, 

 they Should be sown in beds of light earth, either 

 in shallow drills, or scattered over the surface, 

 in the autumn or spring season (but the former 

 is the best method, as the plants rise in the fol- 

 lowing spring), and be covered near an inch deep 

 w ith light mould, out of the alleys, Sec. They re- 

 quire no further care, only to keep the beds clean 

 tram weeds before and after the plants come up, 

 and to give occasional waterings in dry weather, 

 in spring and summer, to forward and strengthen 

 the plants in their growth. They should have 

 two years' growth in the seed-bed; then in the 

 autumn or spring be planted out upon four-fcet- 

 wide beds, in nursery-rows, a toot asunder, to 

 remain two, three, or four years, when some 

 may be planted out final!)' tor hedges, where 

 required ; others in the nursery quarters, in 

 rows, two or three feet asunder, to be trained 

 in a suitable manner for the purposes they arc 

 intended. 



After grow'mir in the nursery till they obtain 

 from half a yard to four or live feet stature, they 

 may be finally planted out in autumn or spring, 

 for their intended purposes; when they will rise 

 with [a lar<_ r c spread of root-. They should be 

 planted in their places as soon after removal as 

 possible, giving each plant a good watering at 

 the time. 



In the future culture, those trained in hedges, 

 Sec. must be clipped annually, once or twice in 

 the summer ; and those in the shrubberies and 

 rural plantations have the lower branches pruned 

 up occaMonallv to a tingle stem: but the head 

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