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down either in the autumn or spring, slitting the 

 part 'a.d into the earth. When well rooted in 

 the following autumn, they may be taken off 

 and planted out in the nursery, to remain till of 

 two or three feet growth, when they may be 

 planted out where they are to remain. 



These plants arc adapted to the borders and 

 clumps of shrubberies and pleasure-grounds. 



HALLERIA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the shrubby evergreen kind for the green house. 



It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 

 dngiospermia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Personal ce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, trifid, flat, spreading, very 

 obtuse, permanent: the upper cleft twice as 

 broad as the rest: the corolla is monopetalous, 

 ringent : tube roundish at the base, bent in with 

 a swelling throat : border oblique, upright, four- 

 cleft ; the upper cleft a little longer than the 

 others, blunt, emarginate ; the side ones shorter, 

 broader, sharper ; the lowest very short, very 

 slender, and very sharp : the stamina have four 

 filaments, bristle-shaped, straight, inserted into 

 the tube, longer than the corolla : anthers round- 

 ish, twin : the pistil him is an inferior, ovate germ, 

 ending in a style longer than the stamens : stig- 

 ma simple : the pericarpium is a roundish berry, 

 two-celled : the seeds small, fiat, roundish, and 

 %vinged- 



The only species is H. lucida, African Fly- 

 Honeysuckle. 



It grows to the height of six or eight feet 

 with a woody stem well furnished with branches : 

 the leaves are ovate, serrate, opposite, and con- 

 tinuing green through the year; the flowers come 

 out singly, and are of a red colour; but being 

 intermixed with the leaves, and growing scatter- 

 ingly on the branches, are not easily discerned. 

 They come out in June, and the seeds ripen in 

 September. The leaves continue green all the 

 winter. It is native of the Cape; flowering 

 from June to August. 



Culture. — This plant may be propagated by 

 cuttings, which should be planted in pots filled 

 with light earth in the summer. 



When the plants are up, they may be exposed 

 in the summer, and have plenty of water; and 

 in winter be housed with Myrtles, and other 

 hardy exotic plants, which require much air in 

 mild weather. 



They may also be raised by sowing the seeds 

 in pots of light earth, and plunged in the hot- 

 bed, by which means they succeed very well. 



They afford variety in green-house collections. 



HAMAMELIS, a genus containing a plant of 

 the hardy deciduous shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Tetrandria 



Digynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Berberides. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a three- 

 leaved involucre, three-flowered : the two inner 

 leaflets roundish, smaller, blunt; the outmost 

 larger, lanceolate : perianthium double: theout- 

 ter two-leaved, smaller, roundish; the inner four- 

 leaved, upright; the leaflets oblong, blunt, equal : 

 the corolla has four petals, linear, equal, very 

 long, blunt, reflex ; nectary of four truncaie leaf- 

 lets, growing to the corolla : tlie stamina have 

 four filaments, linear, shorter than the calyx : 

 anthers two-horned, bent in : the pistillum is an 

 ovate germ, villose, ending in two styles, which 

 are of the same length with the stamens : stig- 

 mas capitate : there is no pericarpium : the seed 

 is an ovate nut, half covered with thecalyx, blunt, 

 furrowed on both sides at the tip, having two 

 little horns spreading horizontally, two-celled, 

 two-valved. 



The only species is //. virglnka, Wi tch-Haze! . 



It has a woody stem, from two to three feet 

 high, sending out many slender branches: thj 

 leaves are oval, indented on their edges, having 

 great resemblance to those of the Hazel, and 

 placed alternately on the branches ; these fall 

 away in autumn, and then the flowers come out 

 in clusters from the joints. It is a native of 

 Virginia. 



Culture. — This plant is propagated by seed, 

 and layers made from the young branches. 



In the first method, the seed procured from 

 America is sown in an easterly border, half an 

 inch deep ; the plants come up the second spring, 

 the ground being kept clean from weeds : when 

 the season proves very dry, moderate waterings 

 should also be given in summer ; and when they 

 are two years old, they should be transplanted 

 into nursery rows. 



The layers should be laid down in autumn, or 

 early in spring, the young twigs of the last sum- 

 mer's shoots being chosen ; giving them a slit at 

 a joint, then laying them in the earth. They 

 will be rooted, and lit to transplant into the nur- 

 sery by the autumn following. When they have 

 had some growth there, they may be removed to 

 the places where they are to remain. 



They afford variety in the shrubbery and other 

 parts of pleasure grounds. 



HAND-GLASSES, such glasses as are moved 

 by the hand, and used for placing over, pro- 

 tecting, and forwarding various sorts of plants. 

 In winter, such as young cauliflowers, lettuces, 

 &c. and in raising seedling plants of both these 

 in the spring, as well as several others, in hot- 

 beds, or in warm borders; also small sallading. 

 And they are particularly necessary in the culture 

 of general crops of summer cucumbers, for pla- 

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