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should be sown in the autumn ; and they will 

 for the most part rise the succeeding spring. 



When the plants are a year old, they should 

 be planted out in nursery-rows ; and when they 

 are from two to four or five feet high, they are 

 proper for being removed into the shrubbery, 

 chimps, and other places. 



In the second mode, the shoots of the year 

 should belaid down in autumn; and they will be 

 well rooted, and fit to remove the following 

 autumn. 



Cuttings of the strong shoots of the same 

 year, ten or twelve inches long, should be plant- 

 ed three parts in the ground in the autumn, 

 and in the autumn following, when well rooted, 

 removed and planted out as above. Suckers 

 from the roots planted in the same way also make 

 good shrubs. 



All these shrubby trees are proper for large 

 shrubberies, wilderness-works, and other orna- 

 mented grounds, where they effect a fine variety 

 by their leaves and numerous flowery umbels in 

 summer, as well as their clusters of berries in 

 autumn ; and in the Dog-wood kinds, by their 

 beautiful red shoots in winter, when their leaves 

 are fallen. They all succeed in any common 

 soil and exposure, and require no culture, but 

 to permit them to assume their natural growth ; 

 onlyjust cutting off any rambling side shoots, and 

 clearing away suckers from the roots, and the 

 dead wood from the branches or other parts. 



CORNUTIA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the shrubby kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 

 Gymnospermia, and ranks in the natural order 

 of Personatce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, roundish perianth, very small, tubular, 

 five-toothed, permanent : the corolla is one- 

 petalled, ringent ; tube cylindric, much longer 

 than the calyx : border four-cleft, upper division 

 erect, roundish ; lateral ones distant ; lower 

 roundish, entire : the stamina have four filaments, 

 of which two project beyond the tube of the 

 corolla : anthers simple, inclining: the pistillum 

 is a roundish germ : style very long, two-parted : 

 stigmas thickish : ihe pericarpium is a globose 

 berry, at the base comprehended by the calyx : 

 the seed single, kidney-form : calyx five-toothed : 

 stamina longer than the corolla : style very long : 

 the berry one-seeded. 



The species mostly cultivated is C. pyrayni- 

 daia, Hoary-leaved Cornutia. 



In its native situation it rises to the height of 

 ten or twelve feet : the branches are four-cor- 

 nered, and grow straggling : the leaves are op- 

 posite, ovate, hoary, on very short petioles, acu- 

 minate, deciduous : the petiole in falling is 

 broken off a line distant from the branch, and 



remains a hard, truncate, blunt, perennial pro- 

 cess, supporting the branches that come out from 

 the axils : the flowers are in corymbs at the 

 ends of the branches; of a fine blue colour, 

 usually appearing in autumn, and sometimes re- 

 maining in beauty two months, or longer. It 

 is a native of America. 



Culture. — It is propagated either by seeds or 

 cuttings. In the first mode the seeds should be 

 sown in the spring, in pots of light earth, and, 

 when the plants are of sufficient growth, re- 

 moved into separate pots, replunging them in 

 the bark-bed of the stove, where they are to 

 remain. 



The cuttings should be planted in pots of 

 light earth, at the same season, and managed 

 afterwards in the same manner as the above. 



These plants afford variety in assemblage with 

 other stove exotics. 



CORONILLA, a genus comprising plants of 

 the evergreen and deciduous shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diads/phia 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Papilionacece. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a simple 

 umbellule : perianth one-leafed, very short, com- 

 pressed, bifid, erect; the three inferior teeth 

 smaller; the two superior conjoined; perma- 

 nent: the corolla papilionaceous: standard heart- 

 shaped, reflected on all sides, scarce longer than 

 the wings : wings ovate, converging at top, gap- 

 ing at bottom, obtuse: keel compressed, acu- 

 minate, ascending, usually shorter than the 

 wings : the stamina consist of diadelphous fila- 

 ments (single and nine-cleft), ascending at al- 

 most a right angle, the tips widish ; anthers 

 simple, small : the pistillum is a columnar, ob- 

 long germ: style bristled, ascending: stigma 

 small, obtuse: the pericarpium is a legume, very- 

 long, columnar, straight, contracted with an 

 isthmus between each seed ; two-valved, one- 

 celled, parting by joints : the seeds manv. 



The species are: 1. C. juncea, Linear-leaved 

 Coronilla; 2. C. Valentino., Small Shrubby Co- 

 ronilla; 3. C. argentea, Silverv -leaved Coro- 

 nilla; 4. C. glauca, Great Shrubby Coronilla ; 

 5. C. Emerus, Scorpion Sena. 



The first rises from two to four feet high, with 

 many slender woody branches, as in broom: 

 the leaves are linear, spear-shaped, small, and 

 somewhat fleshy : the flowers stand upon prettv 

 long axillary peduncles, in small bunches, an: 

 of a bright yellow colour, and appear for six or 

 seven months together, but have not produced 

 seeds in this climate. It is a native of the South 

 of France. 



The second species rues three or font feet 

 high : the leaflets nine or eleven, oblong-cordate 

 or wedge-form retusc, with a snuirpoint or 

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