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ANN 



bellule, which is hemispherical : the petals in- 

 curved, shorter than the stamens, ferruginous 

 without, purple within : the receptacle and sta- 

 mens green : the seet's convex and three-keeled. 

 It is a native of North America. 



Culture. — The propagation in all the sorts 

 may be easily effected by means of the seeds. 

 The first sort succeeds the best in such soils as 

 incline to moisture. The proper time of sow- 

 ing is in the autumn, soon after the seeds have 

 become perfectly ripe, as when sown in the 

 spring they seldom answer well, the vegetative 

 power being much destroyed. The sowing is 

 usually performed in the broadcast method, be- 

 ing afterwards well raked in. When the plants 

 have attained the growth of six or seven inches 

 in height, they are in a proper state to be trans- 

 planted, which should be done to a considerable 

 distance, as twenty inches or two feet or more. 

 They grow well on the banks of ponds. 



In the first year after planting leaves are only 

 produced ; but in the second thev run up to 

 item, flower, and perfect their seed. If it be 

 the intention to continue the plant, the stems 

 must be cut down in the spring, by which they 

 may be perpetuated for three or four \ears. 

 Where the object is seed, new plantations must 

 be annually made, as in seeding the plants are 

 only biennial. 



A plant or two may be proper in pleasure- 

 grounds, ft.r the sake of variety. 



ANGELICA-TREE. See Aralia. 



ANISEED TREE. See Illiiuum. 



ANNONA, a genus comprehending plants 

 of the deciduous and evergreen tree, and shrubby 

 kinds. The Guanabus, or Custard-apple, and 

 I'apaw-tree. 



It belongs to the class and order Polyandria Po- 

 h/gi/nia, and ranks in the natural order of Coadu- 

 iiatce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a three- 

 leaved small perianthium : the leaflet cordate, 

 concave and acuminate : the corolla consists of 

 six petals, cordate and sessile : the three alter- 

 nate interior ones less : the stamina have scarcely 

 any filaments : the anthers are very numerous, 

 placed on the receptacle : the pistillum is a 

 roundish germ, placed on a roundish receptacle; 

 no styles : the stigmas obtuse and numerous, 

 covering the whole germ : the pericarpium is a 

 very large, roundish, one-celled berry, clothed 

 with a scaly bark, or a compound berry : the 

 seeds very many, hard and ovate-oblong, being- 

 placed in a ring, nestling. 



The species of most importance are : 1 . A. re- 

 ticulata, Netted Custard-Apple; 2. A. murl- 

 cuta, Rough -fruited Custard Apple, or Sour 

 Sop; 3. A. sqitamosa, Unchjlated Custard- 



Apple, or Sweet Sop; 4. A. trlpeiala, R road- 

 leaved Custard Apple ; 5. A. palustris, Shining- 

 leaved Annona, or Water-Apple; G. A. triloba, 

 Three-fruited Annona, or l'apaw-Tree ; 7 . A. 

 Asiatica, Asiatic Custard-Apple. 



The first is a tree which grows to the height 

 of twenty-five feet or more, with spreading 

 branches : the bark is smooth and of an a^h co- 

 lour: the leaves are of a light green colour, and 

 have several deep transverse ribs, ending in acute 

 points : they are alternate in two rows, elon- 

 gate, broad, rounded at the base, acuminate 

 with a blunted tip, entire about the edge, veined, 

 smooth on both sides : the petioles gibbous, 

 short, excavated and smooth : the flowers three 

 or four close together, peduncled, nodding, 

 whitish, the same size as in the third : the petals 

 three, linear, thick, three-cornered, blunt, un- 

 equal and brown on the outside, yellowish white 

 within, spotted with dark purple, excavated at 

 the base : the nectary consists of three very 

 minute, oblong, blunt petals, at the base of the 

 genuine petals : the body of the stamens and pis- 

 tils is roundish, minute and whitish : the fruit is 

 roundish, heart-shaped, the rind sometimes re- 

 ticulate, thick, brown, shining. It is of a co- 

 nical form, according to Miller, and as large as 

 a tennis-ball, of an orange colour when ripe, 

 having a soft, sweet, yellowish pulp, the con- 

 sistence of a custard, whence the name. It 

 is a native of both the East and West In- 

 dies. 



The second species is a middle-sized tree, 

 rarely above twelve or fourteen, or at most 

 twenty feet high : trunk upright,- with stiff, 

 round, smooth branches, and a brownish ash- 

 coloured bark ; leaves petioled, alternate, sparse,, 

 oblong, acuminate, entire, shining, firm and. 

 stiffish : the petioles short : the peduncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, thick, longer than the petioles, 

 one-flowered : the flowers coriaceous and yel- 

 low : the calyx one-leafed and triangular : the 

 corolla three-pctalled : the petals acuminate, 

 thick, concave, coriaceous, smooth, scabrous 

 on the outside, and pale green : the nectary 

 three-leaved-: the leaflets alternate with the pe- 

 tals, only half the size, subcordate, smooth, 

 convex and yellow ; the filaments scarcely any : 

 the anthers rather pedicelled, subelavate, bivalve 

 and whitish : the styles very short, and crowded 

 together into a conical form : the stigmas ob- 

 lique and hirsute after flowering-time : the berry 

 difform, cordate-oblong, muricate with prickles 

 bowed back and fleshy : the seeds oblong, black, 

 with a lateral scar of a different colour, and 

 placed in a ring. It produces a large succulent 

 fruit. It is a native of the West Indies. 



The third species is a small tree, about eight 



