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The fourth species is perennial, having an erect 

 stem, from eighteen inches to two or three feet 

 high, or more : the leaves are alternate, pinnas 

 pinnate to the middle, the segments sharply tooth- 

 ed : the stalks are terminated by corymbs of large 

 white flowers. The whole plant is without 

 smell or taste, flowering in July and August. It 

 is a native of the South of France, &c. 



The fifth has a shrubby stem, near two feet 

 high, dividing into many branches : the leaves 

 are of a grayish colour, cut into many narrow 

 segments : the flowers axillary, standing upon 

 naked peduncles singly, and greatly resembling 

 those of common Chamomile. There is a suc- 

 cession of these for a great part of the year, for 

 which it is chiefly esteemed. It is a native of the 

 Canary Islands. 



The sixth species is a procumbent, evergreen 

 undershrub, two feet in height : the leaves ob- 

 ovate, gradually narrowing into the petiole, si- 

 nuate-toothed and stiffish : the flowers small, 

 terminating, solitary, and of a deep yellow co- 

 lour. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



There are varieties with single and double 

 flowers, both white and yellow ; with fistular 

 florets, termed Quill-leaved Chrysanthemum. 



Culture.^- The first or annual kind may be 

 propagated either by seeds or cuttings, but the 

 latter method is the more expeditious, and of 

 course more commonly practised. 



In the first mode the seed should be sown 

 in the early spring months on a very moderate 

 hot-bed, or under hand glasses, and continued 

 so late as the latter end of April, in a sunny si- 

 tuation in the open ground. It may be put in 

 in small drills or on the surface, the mould being 

 previously made fine and even, and the seed sown 

 thin, and evenly covered in to the depth of nearly 

 half an inch. When the plants are of sufficient 

 growth, as in May, or the following month, they 

 may be planted out singly in the situations where 

 they are to flower. A little water should be oc- 

 casionally given, both while in the beds and 

 when planted out, especially when the weather 

 is dry in the latter case. 



In order to have fine double sorts, care should 

 be had to remove all the bad flowers from about 

 them as soon as they can be ascertained, leaving 

 only one or two good ones in a place; and to 

 have them fine in pots, they should be removed 

 into them as soon as they can be known, with 

 large balls of earth about their roots, a little 

 water being given at the time. 



In the latter method, which is constantly em- 

 ployed for continuing the double sorts so that 

 they may blow early in the succeeding summer, 

 cuttings of the strong side shoots about three 

 inches long, which have not flowered, should 



be planted in large pots near the tops, not too 

 nearly together, in the early autumnal months, as 

 the latter end of September, a little water being 

 given at the time; the pots being removed into 

 a frame or green-house for protection during 

 the winter, and air freely admitted in proper 

 weather. About the beginning of April they 

 should be removed from the pots into the situa- 

 tions where they are to flower, being planted out 

 singly. In this culture they flower much earlier 

 than when raised from seed. 



Some plants should however always be raised 

 from seed, in order to afford cuttings to increase 

 the double sorts from, and thereby avoid their de- 

 generating. 



The seed made use of should constantly be col- 

 lected from the best and most full double flowers. 



The three following species are capable of be- 

 ing increased either by sowing the seeds in 

 March in beds of fine mould, in warm sunny 

 situations, or by dividing the roots and planting 

 them out in the autumnal months, when the 

 season is open and rather moist. The plants in 

 the former of these modes should be trans- 

 planted into other beds in the latter end of sum- 

 mer, and set out to the distance of ten or twelve 

 inches, in order to be removed in the autumn 

 following into the places where they are to 

 flower. 



The two last species are easily increased by 

 planting cuttings of the young branches in pots 

 filled with good rich earth, any time during the 

 spring or early summer months, proper shade 

 and water being given. When the plants are 

 well rooted in the beginning of the autumn, 

 they should be removed and planted in separate 

 pots, and during the winter placed under the pro- 

 tection of a deep garden frame or green-house. 



The first sort affords plants well suited for or- 

 nament in the beds or borders of pleasure- 

 grounds or other places, as they produce many 

 flowers and continue late in the autumn; and 

 though they are annual when produced from 

 seeds, the cuttings, as has been seen, when 

 planted out in the autumn continue the winter, 

 and flower earlier in the ensuing summer than the 

 plants raised by seed. 



The three following sorts are proper for the 

 borders of extensive ornamented grounds, as 

 they produce an agreeable variety a considerable 

 length of time in autumn, and are of a large 

 as well as hardy growth. 



The two last are adapted for green-house col- 

 lections, where they afford variety among other 

 potted plants. 



CHRYSOBALANUS, a genus containing a 

 plant of the exotic tree kind. The Cocoa Plum. 



It belongs to the class and order leosandria. 



