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uhere they are broadest, diminishing gradually 

 to a sharp point; they have small serratures on 

 their edges, which scarcely appear. The flow- 

 ers grow in a close sp.ike at the end of the 

 stalks; are white, and almost like those of the 

 Foxglove. It is a native of North America. 



According to some, it varies with white flow- 

 ers, with rose-coloured flowers, with red flow- 

 er*, and with purple flowers. 



In the second species, the roots do not creep so 

 far as those of the first: the stalks are stronger, the 

 leaves much broader, and oblique ; they are deeply 

 sawed on their edges, and stand upon short foot- 

 stalks: the corolla is of a bright purple colour, 

 and consequently makes a finer appearance than 

 the above sort. It is a native of Virginia. 



The third species resembles the first ; but the 

 stalks and leaves are very hairy, and the flower is 

 of a purer white. It is a native of New England. 



Some assert this to vary with white flowers, 

 with blue flowers, with red flowers, and with 

 purple flowers. 



The fourth has a cylindric, pubescent, up- 

 right stem, a foot and half high, putting out 

 several side branches : the leaves are oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, ending in a point: the flowers in 

 short loose spikes from the divisions of the 

 stalks, and of a purple colour. It is a native of 

 North America. 



They all flower in the autumn, from Septem- 

 ber to November. 



Culture. — The mode of propagation in the 

 three first species is by the roots, which multiply 

 easilv, being parted in autumn, or early in 

 spring, and planted where they are to remain : 

 but the fourth sort must be raised annually from 

 seed, by sowing it in autumn as soon as perfectly 

 ripened. 



The plants rise the following spring, and may 

 be planted out in the borders during the summer 

 months. They are hardy plants, and succeed in 

 most soils and situations. 



All these plants have a very ornamental effect 

 for some time in autumn, after the principal 

 bloom of most others is over; and, from being 

 of different colours, produce much varietv when 

 planted in the borders of pleasure-grounds. 



CHENOPODlUM,a genus comprising plants 

 of the hardy herbaceous onamental kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Digynia, and ranks in the natural order of Holo- 

 racece. 



The characters are: that the calyx isafive-leav- 

 ed perianthium, concave, permanent : divisions 

 ovate, concave, membranaceous on the margin : 

 there is no corolla: the stamina consist of five 

 subulate filaments, opposite the leaves of the 

 calyx, and of the same length : anthers roundish, 



twin: the pistillum is an orbiculate germ: the 

 style two-parted, short: stigmas obtuse: there is 

 no pericarpium: the calyx closed, five-cornered, 

 five angled; (angles compressed) deciduous: the 

 seed single, lenticular, and superior. 



The species most worthy of cultivation for flr- 

 nament aie: 1 . C. Scoparia, Flax-leaved Goose- 

 foot, Belvidere, Summer, or Mock Cypress ; 

 2. C. Botrys, Cluster-leaved Goose-foot, or 

 Oak of Jerusalem: 3. C. Amlrosioides, Mexican 

 Goose-foot, or Oak of Cappadocia. 



The first rises with upright round stalks, 

 closely branching pyramidally from the bottom 

 upwards, to the height of two or three feet, set 

 with very narrow, linear, spear-shaped, plane, 

 entire green leaves, and spikes of small greenish 

 flowers. It is a native of Greece, flowering- in 

 July. 



The second species sends up several steins 

 from the root, which rise about two feet high : 

 the leaves are light green, and alternate: the 

 flowers axillary from the upper part of the 

 branches, in loose racemes. They appear in 

 July, and the seeds ripen in September. The 

 leaves emit a very strong odour when bruised, 

 somewhat like that of Ambrosia. It is a native 

 of the South of Europe. 



The third has the stem from twelve to eigh- 

 teen inches high, sometimes reddish, round, 

 striated, with fine scattered hairs: the leaves 

 are pale green, oblong, sinuated ; at the base of 

 each, peduncles an inch long, on which are se- 

 veral little heads of flowers alternately disposed, 

 with a leaflet under each. It is a native of Mex- 

 ico. 



Martyn says that " the leaves and flowery 

 heads of both these plants have a strong and 

 not unpleasant smell, and a moderately aroma- 

 tic taste, somewhat bitterish." 



Culture. — These sorts arc all readily raised 

 from seed sown in the full ground in March, 

 on a bed of rich light earth, and raked in 

 lightly. When the plants are two or three 

 inches high, they may be planted out singly in 

 different parts of the borders ; but it is proba- 

 bly a better practice to put the seed in in patches 

 where the plants are to flower, thinning them 

 afterwards to a single plant in each place. In 

 the first sort, some plants may also be planted 

 in pots, to be set out in assemblage with other 

 potted annuals : and a few plants of the other 

 two sorts may be treated in the same way, in 

 order to move them to the shelter of a green- 

 house or garden-frame. 



The shrubby sorts have but little beauty. 

 CHERRY TREE. See Prunus. 

 CHERRY-LAUREL. See Prunus. 

 CHESTNUT. See Fagus. 

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