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vered with a brown bark, never rising more than 

 three feet high, and sending out many weak 

 branches, spreading horizontally. The leaves 

 are obtuse, without veins, not so soft as in many 

 other species: the peduncles lateral, solitary, 

 one-flowered, longer than the leaves: the co- 

 rolla is white, and somewhat smaller than that 

 of the other rock-roses. It flowers from June 

 to August, an' 1 is a native of Italy ; kc. 



Culture. — All these sorts are capable of being 

 either raised by seeds or cuttings in common 

 earth, or on hot-beds ; but the seed method 

 produces the best plants. The seeds should be 

 sown in the early spring, in a warm border 

 near half an inch deep, and the plants will come 

 up in six weeks; or, to render them more for- 

 ward, in pots, and plunged in a moderate hot- 

 bed. When the plants arc of some growth, 

 they should have the full air in mild weather, 

 and frequent waterings, as well as occasional 

 shade from the sun, while young ; and when an 

 inch or two high, some may be planted out se- 

 parately in small pots, others in rich borders, 

 occasional shade and water being given during 

 summer. In autumn the potted plants should 

 be removed to a frame, to have shelter from 

 frost. Those in the full ground should also be 

 shielded in frosty weather with mats. In spring, 

 those remaining in the seed-bed should be 

 planted out, and those in pots shifted into larger 

 ones; to be continued another winter, and in 

 the spring following be planted where they are to 

 remain. 



.In the latter method, cuttings, five or six 

 inches long, should be planted in beds of 

 rich earth, occasional shade and water being 

 given. When well rooted, they should be remov- 

 ed into separate pots 1 : but by being planted in pots 

 in spring, and plunged in a hot-bed, they are ren- 

 dered much forwarder. In other respects they . 

 require the same management as the seedlings. 



These are beautiful evergreen shrubs, effect- 

 ing a fine variety at all seasons, both from their 

 heaves being of different figures, sizes, and shades 

 of green and white, and their being very profuse 

 in most elegant flowers, which though of short 

 duration, there is a daily succession of new ones 

 for a month or six weeks on the same plant ; and 

 when these different species are employed, they 

 exhibit a constant bloom for near three months. 



They are mostly hardy enough to prosper in 

 the opengronnd in any dry soil; and if they have 

 a sheltered situation it will be an advantage, as 

 in open exposures they are rathersubject to injury 

 from very severe frost ; for which reason a plant 

 or two of each sort should be potted, to have 

 shelter in winter in the green-house. 



The second and fifth are the most tender sorts. 

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In shrubbery borders and clumps they should 

 be placed towards the fronts, in assemblage with 

 other choice shrubs of similar growth. All the 

 sorts should be suffered to assume their own na- 

 tural growth; the straggling branches being only 

 cut in with a knife. 



CITH AREXYLON, a genus which furnishes 

 a shrub of the ornamental evergreen kind, for 

 the stove. Fiddle Wood. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 

 Jbigiospermia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Personates. 



The characters are; that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, hell-form, five-toothed, acute, 

 permanent : the corolla is one-petalled, funnel- 

 wheel-form; lube twice as long as the perianth, 

 thicker at the top : border five-parted, two-lip- 

 ped; segments above villose, oblong, truncate, 

 flat, very spreading : the stamina have four fila- 

 ments, with the rudiment of a fifth from the 

 middle of the tube, filiform, two of them some- 

 what longer: anthers oblong, t<vin, erect: the 

 pislillum is a roundish germ : style filiform, the 

 length of the stamens: stigma obtuse-headed: 

 the pericarpium is a roundish berry, somewhat 

 compressed, one-celled: the seeds two,^ovate, 

 two-celled, convex on one side, concave on the 

 other, emarginate at the end. 



The species cultivated is C. quadraiigulare, 

 Square-stalked Fiddle Wood. 



It rises, in its native situation, to the size of a 

 tree; but in this climate, only to that of a 

 shrub. The head is handsome and branching -. 

 the branches are garnished by three oval spear- 

 shaped leaves at every joint, standing in a tri- 

 angle, upon short foot-stalks, about four inches 

 long, and one or two broad, of a lively green co- 

 lour, pretty much notched on their edges, hav- 

 ing several deep veins running from the midrib 

 to the edges ; they are of a white colour on their 

 upper side, and very prominent on their under. 

 The flowers come out from the sides, and also at 

 the ends of the branches, in loose bunches, 

 which are succeeded by small pulpy berries, 

 which are red when ripe. It is a native of the 

 West Indies. 



Culture. — The plants of this sort are capable 

 of being increased both by seeds and cuttings of 

 the young branches, hut the latter is the method 

 mostly employed. 



The seeds should be sown in small pots, filled 

 with rich earth, early in the spring, when they can 

 be procured from abroad, plunging them into a, 

 tan hot-bed. When the plants are of sufficient 

 growth, they should be carefully taken up and 

 removed into other pots, separately re-plunging 

 them in the 'hot-bed, shading them till they 

 have formed fresh roots. They should after- 



