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niches in width. The aromatic kinds, it' in 

 pleasure-grounds, should not exceed five or six 

 inches inheight, nor more than three or tour in 

 breadth. 



In trimming box edgings, the top should be 

 clipped along first in a level or even manner, then 

 on the sides. Other low edgings should be cut and 

 kept in a somewhat similar manner at top and 

 sides, which, in those of the flowering kind, 

 should irenerally be trimmed to regular order as 

 soon a.s the flowers decay. 



EDC.ING-1HON, an implement employed 

 for cutting even the solid edges of grass-plats, 

 lawns, ike. 



In the blade it is made somewhat in the 

 crescent form, or like a large cheese-knife, 

 rounding below at the edge part, and with a 

 socket above, upright in the middle, in which 

 to fix a long straight handle of wood, three or 

 four feet long. Sec Plate on Garden Im- 

 plements. 



In executing this work in straight edges, a 

 line may be set as a guide to cut regularly even 

 and straight by ; but in curves, sweeps, or serpen- 

 tine ed< r es, the eye and a steady hand must be th« 



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^iide: in both modes the edging-iron should 

 be held obliquely or slanting flat-ways to the 

 edge, cutting clean downward an inch or more 

 deep, forming the edge even and upright ; the cut- 

 tings being directly cleared away to the bottom. 



It is likewise useful in new laid grass-plats, 

 &c. whioh -generally require the edges of the 

 sward to be cut in even to their proper form and 

 bounds, and which can be effected in this way 

 to greater exactness than with a spade, and in 

 a more even and regular method. 



EDGING-SHEARS, an implement of the 

 scissar kind, calculated for trimming the rough 

 edges of grass-plats and lawns ; being used only 

 in cutting or clipping the projecting loose grass. 

 See Plate on Garden Implements. 



The most eligible kind for this purpose are 

 such as are in the form of sheep-shearing shears, 

 wholly of iron, formed with an elastic bow 

 handle, without any wooden handle as in the 

 common garden-shears : they may, however, be 

 formed with long wooden handles, and be so con- 

 trived, as to clip the level surface as well as the 

 edges: they are useful in the summer season 

 when the grass grows out rough and irregular 

 along the edges into the walks, &c. and requires 

 to be trimmed in close and even occasionally, 

 which may be expeditiously performed with these 

 kind of shears, by hang held with one hand, 

 and run along the edges, cutting, as they proceed, 

 the loose projecting grass close and even to the 

 solid sward or green surface. 



'I ii" work is also often effVctccl with the 

 point of common hedge-shears and a gar en 

 knife. 



ETTRETIA, a genus comprising plants of the 

 exotic tree kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Pevtandria 

 Mamogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 AiperifolUe. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, bell-shaped, half five-cleft, 

 obtuse, very small, permanent: thecorolla one- 

 petalled : tube longer than the calyx : borderfive- 

 cleft: divisions somewhat ovate, flat: the sta- 

 mina consist of five subulate, patulous filaments, 

 length of the corolla : anthers roundish, incum- 

 bent : the pistillum is a roundish germ : style 

 filiform, thicker above, length of the stamens: 

 stigma obtuse, emarginate : the pericarpium a 

 roundish one-celled berry: the seeds four, convex 

 on one side, cornered on the other. 



The species cultivated are: 1. E. tinifolia, 

 Tinus-leaved Ehretia ; 2. E. hourreria, Oval- 

 leaved Ehretia; 3. E. exsucca, Dry-fruited 

 Ehretia. 



The first is an upright tree, in its native state 

 from twenty to thirty feet high, with an oblong 

 thick head : the branches unarmed, roundish, 

 subdivided ; the leaves alternate, veined, blunt, 

 about four inches long, on short petioles : pa- 

 nicles terminating, oblong, large : the flowers 

 terminating, numerous, white, and small, suc- 

 ceeded by a small berry. It is a native of Cuba. 



In Jamaica it is known by the name of Bas- 

 tard Cherry-tree. 



The second species is a small inelegant tree, 

 having an adust habit, fifteen feet high in 

 some situations, in others seldom five : the trunk 

 unequal, with a chinky bark : branches very 

 many, irregular; the leaves alternate, petioled, 

 quite entire, various ; obtuse, acute or emargi- 

 nate; smooth, on rocks, rugged in other places, 

 differing in size; oblong, ovate: the flowers in 

 corymbs, sweet, of a white colour. It is a na- 

 tive of the West Indies. 



The third is a small tree fifteen feet in height; 

 sometimes erect, sometimes supporting itself on 

 other trees : the leaves are ovate, acute, very 

 smooth, alternate, petioled, two inches long: 

 the racemes branched, snbcorymbed,subterminat- 

 ing: the flowers having a slight degree ot sweet- 

 ness, much larger than in the preceding ones, 

 succeeded by green four-cornered berries. It is 

 a native of Spain. 



^Culture. — These plants may be increased by 

 sowing the seeds procured from abroad in the 

 spring season, in pots of light earth, plunging 

 them in a hot-bed. When the plants haw at- 

 tained proper growth, thtv should be removed 

 into separate pots, and replunged in the bark -bed 

 of the stove. 



Thev .ne likewise capable of being propagated 

 bv laying down the young shoots in the spring; 

 but in this way they are long in striking root. " 



