B UX 



B U X 



length, forming an upright umbel, surrounded a yellow colour, of an even close grain, very 



at bottom by an involucre of three withering hard and ponderous. The leaves are ovate or 



membranous sheaths ; besides a smaller stipule oval in the common sort, hard, smooth, glossy, 



to each peduncle: corolla handsome, near an evergreen, very dark green above, pale green 



inch in breadth ; commonlv of a bright or pale underneath, something resembling those of 



flesh-colour, purple or rose-colour. It is a myrtle, but blunt and commonlv emarginate at 



native of most parts of Europe, and flowers in the end: the edges are revolute: thev are set on 



ith 



June and July. 



There are varieties with white flowers 

 red flowers ; with deep purple flowers. 



Lull we. — The propagation in this plant is effect- 

 ed either bv seed, or the roots. In the first mode 

 the seed may be sown thick, in any water)- or 

 boggy place, in the autumn, and left to nature. In 

 the second method the roots should be removed 

 any time after flowering, and such as admit of 



very short petioles, and on the twigs they come 

 out regularly in pairs, so close as almost to con- 

 ceal them. On these, from the axils of the 

 leaves, come out the small herbaceous flowers, 

 in round bunches; a female flower occupying 

 the middle of the bunch, and being surrounded 

 bv several males. It is a native of most parts 

 of Europe. 



There are varieties of Tree Box with broad 

 it, divided, planting them at once in the places leaves, with narrow leaves, with silver-striped 

 allotted them, where they flower annually for leaves, with silver-edged leaves, with gold- 

 a great length of time. striped leaves, with gold-pdged leaves, with gold- 



These plants are verv ornamental on the sides tipped leaves, with curled striped leaves : and of 

 of waters, or in soft boggy situations, in plea- the Dwarf shrubby kind there are sub-varieties, 

 sure grounds. with green leaves and with striped leaves. 



JiUXL'S, a genus containing plants of the Culture. — This species and all the different va- 



hardv evergreen kind. rieties of Box may be easily raised either by seeds, 



It belongs to the class and order Mo>wecia layers, or cutt'ngs, though the two last are the 



Tet randria, and ranks in the natural order of methods most commonly employed, and the only 



Tricoccce. ones for the variegated sorts, so as to continue 



The characters are: that the male flowers are the different kinds with certainty, 

 prominent from the buds of the plant : the ca- In the first mode the seed should be sown in 

 lvx is a three-leaved perianthium : leaflets round- autumn, soon after it becomes ripe, in a border 

 ish, obtuse, concave, and spreading : the corolla of light earth, half an inch deep. The plants ap- 

 consists of two roundish, concave petals, very pear in spring, and are fit to plant out in the 

 like the calvx, but larger : the stamina consist nursery, in row s, in about two years afterwards, 

 of four subulate filaments, erect-expanding, They may be increased in the layer method any 

 rather larger than the calyx: the amhers are time in the year ; but the spring is the most 

 erect and twin : the pistillum is the rudiment of eligible season, or in the autumn, as they will 

 a germ, without stvle or stigma. The females be~well rooted for planting out in the autumn 

 inthesamebudwithihemales: thecalvx isa four- following. 



When raised by cuttings, they may be plant- 

 ed in autumn, or any time in the spring, but 

 the sooner the better ; for which purpose shoots 

 of one or two years' wood should be chosen 

 about six or eight inches long, and planted in a 

 shady border "half wav in the earth, and six 

 inches distant, water being freely given in dry 



leaved perianthium : leaflets roundish, obtuse, 

 concave, spreading: the corolla consists of three 

 roundish, concave petals, very like the calyx, 

 but larger: the pistillum is a superior germ, 

 roundish, obtusely three-cornered, ending in 

 three verv short, permanent styles : the stigmas 

 obtuse, hispid: the pericarpium is a coriaceous, 

 roundish, three-beaked, three-celled capsule, weather 



bursting elastically into three parts : the seeds 

 are twin, oblong, rounded on one side, flat on 

 the other. 



There is onlv one species : B. sempervirens, 

 Evergreen Tree Box. 



It is observed bv Martvn, that Box, in '' 



The Dwarf sort mav be propagated very rea- 

 dily bv off-sets or suckers from the roots, which 

 mav be parted any time from the autumn to the 

 spring, or even later. Those intended to be 

 trained as shrubs should be planted singly in 

 rows in the nursery a foot asunder ; but when 



dwarf state, is a well-known shrubby plant, intended for edgings, they may be planted close 



about three feet in height ; that when left to it- to one another, in rows ; the slips with small root 



self, it becomes a tree, twelve or fifteen feet fibres being chiefly made use of for the purpose, 

 hio-h, with a trunk equalling the human thigh in For the purpose of edgings, such plants as are 



thickness, covered with a fugged, grayish bark, short and bushy are to be preferred, and those 



that of the branches yellow ishT The wood is of whose roots are short and very fibrous. 



