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Lateral shoots, six inches long; attached either in patches in the different corn- 

 to blocks of charred wood. ; partments as already observed, for the 

 LUMNITZERA moschata, a green- plants to remain where sowed ; or may 

 house annual ; and L. <enu(^ora, a stove ; be sowed in beds in drills for trans- 

 herbaceous perennial. The first by plantation ; but as the plants generally 

 seed, the second by division. Common | send their roots deep into the ground, 



soil. 



LUNARIA. Honesty. Two species. 

 Hardy biennial and perennial. Seed. 

 Common shaded soil. 



LUNGWORT. Pnlmonaria. 



LUPINUS. Lupine. Fifty-seven 

 species. Chiefly hardy annual and herb- 

 aceous plants. Of these the propagation 

 is effected by seed in the open ground 

 in March, April, and May, observing 

 that as too copious moisture is apt to 

 rot the seed, they should not be sowed 



they generally succeed best when per- 

 mitted to remain where raised. — Aber- 

 cromhie. 



LUXEMBURGIA ciliosa. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Light rich 

 loam. 



LYCASTE. Four species. Stove 

 epiphyte. Off"sets. Peat and pot- 

 sherds. 



LYCHNIS. Twenty species. Hardy 

 herbaceous, except L. ccelirosa and L. 

 fcithago, which are annuals. Seed or 



earlier than the middle or latter end of divisions, the latter to be annually re- 



March, except on very dry, warm soils. 

 The annual sorts should be sowed at I 



peated. Light rich loam. 



LYCIUM. Sixteen species. Hardy 



once in the places where the plants are 1 and half-hardy deciduous and ever- 

 to flower, for they d6 not succeed by green shrubs and climbers. Cuttings. 



transplantation, and to have a succes- 

 sion of bloom, about three or four dif- 

 ferent sowings may be necessary from i 

 about the middle or latter end of March 

 until June, especially the yellow sort, 

 whose bloom is rather of short dura- 

 tion; observinsj to sow all the sorts in 



Light loam. 



LYCOPERSICON. Nine spe- 

 cies. Hardy annuals, except L. peru- 

 vianum, which is a stove herbaceous 

 perennial. See Love-Apple. 



LYON, John. Mr. Lyon was born 

 in Scotland, and emigrated to this coun- 



patches, four, five, or six seeds in each, try about the commencement oftlie pre- 

 near an inch deep, and when the plants sent century. He shortly thereafter 

 come up, leave only three of the best [entered into the employ of the late 

 of them, though of the large kind one \Vm. Hamilton, and, for several years, 

 or two may be sufficient in each place, superintended his choice collection of 

 When large quantities are required for, exotic plants at the "Woodlands." Mr. 

 nosegays to supply the markets, &c., as Lyon subsequently became a regular 

 practised about London with the yellow! collector of American plants and seeds 

 sweet scented sort, they may be sowed I for exportation, and in the prosecution 

 in rows in beds, drilling them in an inch ' of his object made frequent excursions 

 deep, allowing a foot between the rows, i to the south and west. His collections 

 Keep them clean from weeds, which is i were usually congregated at the Nur- 

 all the culture they require: the first i sery grounds of his friends at Phila- 

 sown plants will furnish plenty of ripe | delphia, and, when properly prepared, 

 seed. If some seeds are sowed in au- ] were by him taken to Europe. He 

 tumn, in September, in a warm dry situ- made a number of trips to England, 

 ation, the plants will come up, and i each tmie carrying with him large lots 

 often stand the winter tolerably well, of our native plants, which met with 



and flower early the following year 

 or, if some are sowed in pots, especial- 

 ly the giant sort, comprising the Large 

 Blue, and the Rose Lupine, which in 

 wet autumns ripen seed but indifferent- 

 ly, so that by placing the pots in a gar- 

 den frame, to haveoccasional protection 

 from hard frost, they will flower early 

 in the following summer, so as to per- 

 fect seeds before they are attacked by 

 the autumnal rains. 



ready sale at liberal prices. Thirty or 

 forty years ago the communication with 

 Europe was not so trifling a matter as 

 at present, and a journey of some thou- 

 sand miles in search of floral treasures, 

 and their transportation across the At- 

 lantic, was quite an event in the horti- 

 cultural world. ]Mr. Lyon was a man 

 of cultivated mind, and, to a good plain 

 education, such as most of his country- 

 men receive, he had added the results 



The perennial sort may be sowed of extensive reading and observation. 



