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The dwarf shrubby kinds of these plants are 

 often cultivated for sale in the nurseries, for 

 edgings, being planted in close rows, and com- 

 monly sold by measurement, generally at about 

 six-pence per yard, running measure, and one 

 yard of which, when good and close, will plant 

 three or four on b 'ing parted. 



In parting the Box for edgings, it should not 

 be divided into very small slips, but, if possible, 

 each slip should be furnished with fibres ; for 

 although ihe naked or rootless slips will grow, 

 they should not be planted with the rooted ones, 

 as many may fail, and occasion gaps in the 

 edgings. The plants when slipped should be 

 trimmed both at root and top, cutting off or 

 shortening the long sticky roots, but the tops 



should not be cut too close to appear stubby. 

 See Edging. 



All the varieties are hardy, and capable ol 

 succeeding on almost any sorts of soil and ex- 

 posures. When cultivated for the wood, which 

 is of a fine hard dense texture, thev may bs 

 planted on the poor chalky or gravelly soils with 

 success. 



The different sorts, when planted as shrubs, 

 have a very ornamental effect in the fronts and 

 other parts of the borders and clumps of plea- 

 sure-grounds, in assemblage with others of the 

 more large-leaved evergreen kind. They an' 

 likewise employed for the forming of ornamental 

 hedges, and for being clipped into different 

 forms. 



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CABBAGE. See Brassica. 

 CABBAGE-TREE. See Cacalia Klei- 



NIA. 



CACALIA, a genus comprehending hardy 

 herbaceous, flowery, perennial, and shrubby 

 plants. Foreign Coltsfoot. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia 

 Pofygamia JEquulis, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Composilce Dlscoidece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is com- 

 mon simple, oblong, at the base only sub-caly- 

 cled, cylindric : the scales five to ten, equal, 

 lanceolate-linear, forming a tube; a few very 

 short, incumbent on the base : the corolla is 

 compound and tubular: the corollules arc her- 

 maphrodite, in number the same as the longer 

 leaves of the calyx, and uniform ; proper fun- 

 nel-form, gradually lessening to the tube : bor- 

 der four- or live-cleft, and erect : the stamina 

 consist of live capillary filaments, very short: 

 the anther cylindric and tubular : the pis- 

 tillum is an oblong germ : the style filiform, 

 the length of the stamens: the stigmas two, 

 oblong and revolute; the pericarpium none: 

 the calyx unchanged : the seeds solitary, ob- 

 long, and ovate-narrow : the down capillary, 

 and very long : the receptacle is naked, flat, and 

 dotted.' 



The species most commonly cultivated are: 

 ]. C. suaveolens, Sweet-scented Cacalia ; 2. C. 

 atriplkifolia, Orach-leaved Cacalia ; 3. C. Alpi- 

 na, Alpine Purple Cacalia ; 4. C. papillaris, 

 Rough-stalked Cacalia; 5. C. Anleuphorbium, 

 Oval-leaved Cacalia; 6. C. Kleinia, Oleander- 



leaved Cacalia, or Cabbage-tree; 7. C. Ficoides, 

 Flat-leaved Cacalia. There are several other spe- 

 cies that are equally deserving of cultivation. 



The first species has a perennial creeping root, 

 sending out many stalks : the leaves are long, 

 smooth, and veined, of a pale green on their 

 under side, but a deep shining green above, and 

 placed alternately. The stalks rise to the height 

 of seven or eight feet, are streaked, quite simple, 

 and terminated by corymbs of white flowers. 

 It smells very sweet when dry ; and is a native of 

 Virginia and Canada, flowering in August and 

 ripening its seeds in October. 



The second species has also a perennial root, 

 composed of many fleshy spreading tubers, 

 sending out several strong stalks in the spring, 

 four or five feet high : the leaves are sea-green 

 on their under side, but darker above, placed 

 alternately the length of the stalks, which an. 

 terminated by umbels of herbaceous-coloured 

 flowers. It is of the same size and stature with 

 the above, and a native of Virginia, flowering 

 here in August. 



The third has likewise a perennial root : the. 

 stem is a foot and half high, or more, leafy and 

 branching at intervals : the leaves are on very 

 long petioles; the lowest either very long heart- 

 shaped, or broader approaching to kidney- 

 shaped, with the intervals of the toothings semi- 

 lunar; some are wholly smooth; some have the 

 nerves only hairy ; others are wholly tomento.-e, 

 and thicker. The stem branches at top, and on 

 the subdivisions, bear a broad and dense corymb 

 of flowers. It is a native of Switzerland. 

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