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of shoots may be provided. In this way, and 

 by suckers, grafting, and budding, the sorts 

 and varieties may be preserved with certainty. 



The suckers arising from the roots of trees 

 raised in either of these methods, when taken 

 up in autumn, winter, or early spring, with 

 good radical fibres, grow freely and form good 

 plants, which should be planted at once where 

 they are to remain when large, and the smaller 

 sizes in nursery rows, till of proper growth. 



This mode of raising the plants is chiefly 

 adopted in Kent, where large quantities are cul- 

 tivated. 



The grafting and budding of these trees may 

 be performed on stocks of any-of the kinds du- 

 ring the early spring mouths. See Grafting 

 and Budding-. 



The kinds most deserving of cultivation are 

 the Cluster Large Cob, Barcelona, and the two 

 varieties of Filbert Nuts ; which may be planted 

 alter having been trained in any of the above 

 modes. 



The filbert sorts, which are in the most com- 

 mon culture, may be planted as standards in rows, 

 ten, fifteen, or twenty feet distance, hy twelve 

 feet in the lines, and trained to single stems to 

 four, five, or six feet in height, and with branchy, 

 full spreading heads ; or in the hedge manner, 

 either in single rows, to run up in their natural 

 growth, or in a double row, ten or twelve feet 

 between, to form shady filbert walks, in all of 

 which modes they bear abundantly; but the de- 

 tached single standards commonly produce the 

 largest and finest nuts. 



It is observed in the Annals of Agriculture, 

 that in Kent, where this sort of fruit is much 

 grown, the trees are never suffered to rise above 

 six feet in height, and are regularly pruned like 

 gooseberry bushes. They are planted at the 

 distance of twelve feet, and, when full spread, 

 the heads are formed by the branches six feet in 

 diameter. The inter-spaces are cultivated with 

 hoeing crops, the vigour of the trees depending 

 much on the stirring of the ground. The soil 

 on which they succeed best is a strong loam, 

 on which they bear greatly; the fruit being large 

 and fine, and not maggoty. 



They are sometimes planted to form a kind of 

 hedge/setting them at live feet distance, and leav- 

 ing "them to nature, to shoot from the bottom, 

 sides, and tops, in their own manner; but in this 

 way they do not, in general, produce such large, 

 fine fruit, as trees with one stem, standing at such 

 distances that their heads have full scope to 

 spread out regularly in different directions. 



Where full plantations of these trees are want- 

 ed, they should be planted in rows, at not less than 

 fifteen' or twenty feet distance, or less than ten 

 or fifteen feet asunder in the rows. 



All the culture such trees require, after being 

 planted out where they are to remain, is to clear 

 the bottoms annually from suckers arising from 

 the roots, and the stems from all side shoots ; 

 the heads being mostly suffered to take their 

 natural growth, except just retrenching the ram- 

 bling shoots or branches. 



Some of the other species may be planted 

 with much advantage and effect in the borders, 

 clumps, and other parts of ornamented grounds, 

 where there is sufficient room. 



CORYPHA, a genus containing plants of the 

 perennial exotic kind. Fan Palm. 



It belongs to Appendix Palmcv, and ranks in 

 the natural order of Palms. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a spathe uni - 

 versal compound : spadixbranching: the corolla 

 three-parted: petals ovate, obtuse, spreading : the 

 stamina have six filaments, subulate, longer than 

 the corolla: anthers caudate : the pistillum is a 

 roundish germ : style subulate, short : stigma 

 simple : the pericarpium is a globose berry, large, 

 one-celled : the seed single, bony, large, globose. 



The species are: 1. C. umbracutifera, Great 

 Fan Palm ; 2. C. minor, Smaller Fan Palm. 



The first, in its native situation, is described 

 as growing to a large tree : the leaves pin- 

 nate-palmate, very large and broad, and, when 

 dried, folding up in the manner of a fan : they 

 grow quite on the top of the tree : it scarcely 

 flowers before it is of thirty or forty years growth, 

 when it produces numerous beautiful yellow blos- 

 soms in great spreading branches, succeeded by 

 much fruit. It is a native of Malabar. 



The second has a spreading root, sending up 

 frondose foot-stalks, with large palmate-fan- 

 shaped, plaited leaves, from eighteen inches to two 

 feet long, and near eighteen inches broad, open- 

 inglike a fan, and putting forth between theleaves 

 a spathe protruding a spadix of flowers, which 

 are succeeded by a smooth, black, sweet fruit, 

 the size of a pea. It is a native of India. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased, either 

 by seeds, or slips from the crowns of the roots: 

 the seeds, should be procured from abroad, and 

 sown in pots of sandy light earth, plunging them 

 in a hot-bed, and giving occasional waterings ; 

 and in the autumn or spring following, the plants 

 will be fit to be removed into separate pots. The 

 off-sets slipped from the crowns of the roots 

 should be separated with fibres to them, planted 

 in pots in the spring, being plunged in a hot- 

 bed. 



They require to be kept constantly in the stove, 

 and to have the management of other exotic 

 plants of similar growth. 



COTYLEDON, a genus affording plants of 

 the succulent perennial hardy kind, for the green- 

 house and stove. 



