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resting on long Foot-stalks, which have a good 

 effect. It is a native of Italy. 



Culture. — This plant is not difficult in its pro- 

 pagation, which may be either by sowing the 

 seeds or by cuttings. In the first method the 

 bu iness should be performed in April on a 

 warm border, the seed being very lightly raked 

 in ; but in the latter it must be done in the 

 summer season, a shady situation being chosen 

 for the purpose. In either method the plants 

 must be potted and placed in the house during 

 the winter season. They require moving occa- 

 sionally into larger pots, which should always 

 be done with a ball of earth about their roots. 

 Moderate waterings are likewise necessary. 



This is a plant which is employed for the pur- 

 pose of ornament in the green-house. 



ANAGYRIS, a genus comprehending plants 

 of the hardy deciduous flowering shrubby 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Deeandria 

 Mononynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Papilionacece, or Leguminosce. 



Its characters are : that the calyx is a bell- 

 shaped perianthium, mouth five-toothed, the 

 upper pair of teeth being more deeply divided : 

 the corolla papilionaceous, standard obcordate, 

 straight, emarginate, broader than the other 

 petals, and twice as lonsr, as the calvx : wings 

 ovate-oblong, flat, longer than the standard, 

 keel straight and very long : the stamina have 

 filaments parallel, distinct, rising: anthers sim- 

 ple : the pistillum is an oblong germ, the style 

 simple and rising : the stigma villose : the pe- 

 ricarpium an oblong, large, roundish, obtuse 

 legume, a little reflex : the seeds six or more, 

 kidney-shaped. 



The species cultivated are : 1 . A. fnetida, 

 Stinking Anagyris, or Bean Trefoil ; 2. A. Cre- 

 tica, Cretan Stinking Anagvris, or Bean Tre- 

 foil. 



The first is a shrub that usually grows to the 

 height of eight or ten feet. The leaves are oval, 

 and the flowers, which arc produced in April or 

 May, are of a bright yellow colour, butterfly- 

 shaped, hanging in long spikes from the sides 

 of the branches, somewhat as in the Labur- 

 num. It never ripens its seeds in this climate. 

 It is a native of the south of France, Spain, 

 and Italy. 



The second sort has the leaves longer, and 

 also the spikes of flowers. It also flowers later 

 in the summer, and never maturates its seed. 

 It is supposed by some to be only a variety. It 

 is a native of C'andia. 



Culture. — These plants are capable of being- 

 propagated, either by means of layers or seed. 

 1 he first method is adopted in order to obviate 



the defects of their not producing seed. In 

 performing the operation, the tender b.anches 

 should be chosen, and it is best done in the 

 spring season, when they should be tongued in 

 the same way as in Carnation?. In diy seasons 

 water should be given : a rather shady place is 

 best for the purpose. In the following spring, 

 when the layers have fully taken root, they may 

 be separated from the old plants just before they 

 begin to bud, and be then planted in warm 

 aspects, as when much exposed they are apt to be 

 destroyed in severe winters. 



In raising them from the seeds, which is pro- 

 bably the best method, as the plants become 

 taller and handsomer, the method is to sow 

 them in pots placed in a moderate hot-bed about 

 the beginning of March. It may also be done 

 on a warm border of fine rich earth, covering 

 them well with sifted mould, and then protect- 

 ing them by a glass frame. The seeds are pro- 

 cured from abroad. When the seed is good the 

 plants appear in the course of a month, when 

 they should be gradually habituated to the open 

 air, into which they may be brought about the 

 end of May, being put in sheltered warm situa- 

 tions : this can only be done with those in pots, 

 as they do not bear transplanting well till the 

 following spring. They should be protected 

 under a glass frame in the nights the two first 

 winters, as they do not bear cold well. After 

 they have been kept exposed in pots for about 

 three years, they will be in a condition to plant 

 out where they are to remain. The best season 

 for this is in April, just before they protrude 

 their leaves. They should be turned out of the 

 pots, or be taken up with good balls to their 

 roots, and immediately planted in warm situa- 

 tions, being protected in the winters by tanners' 

 bark about their roots, and coverings of mats 

 on their tops. The fourth year from sowing 

 they usually begin to produce flowers, and con- 

 tinue flowering annually afterwards. 



They are highly ornamental, and extremely 

 proper for being mixed with other flowering 

 shrubs of similar growth in warm situations, in 

 shrubberies and other places. 



ANANAS. See Bhomelia. 



ANASTATICA, a genus including some cu- 

 rious plants of the low bushy annual kind, 

 known by the title of Rose of Jericho. 



It belongs to the class and order Tctradynamia 

 Siliculosa, and rank- in the natural order of 

 Si/'u/uosce. 



The characters of which are: that the calyx 

 is a four-leaved and deciduous perianthium, 

 leaflets ovate, oblong, concave, erect and de- 

 ciduous : the corolla is retrapetalous and cruci- 

 form j the petals roundish, flat, and spreading, 

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