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ferent heights, to stand upon, the whole being 

 made to move along upon four low wheels. It is 

 composed of four long poles for uprights, well 

 framed together, eight or ten feet wide at bot- 

 tom, narrowing gradually to four or five at top, 

 having a platform or stage fixed at every seven or 

 eio-htleet height, with one near the top, each 

 having a rail waist-high : there is a sort of ladder 

 formed on one side to ascend by, &c. Upon 

 this machine a man or two may be employed on 

 each stacc or platform, trimming the hedge with 

 shears, and sometimes with a light garden hedge 

 bill fixed on a handle from three to five or six 

 feet long, which is more expeditious, though it 

 will nof make so neat work as cutting with 

 shears. It is very useful in clipping high hedges 

 or trees. And it may be employed for dressing, 

 cleaning, pruning, and nailing different sorts of 

 trees, as well as various other purposes. In ex- 

 tensive pleasure-grounds and gardens they are 

 essentially necessary. 



HEDYSARUJVlj a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous flowering kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Biadelphia 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Papilionaceee. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one-leafed 

 perianthium, half-five-cleft : clefts subulate, 

 upright, permanent : the corolla is papilionace- 

 ous, Streaked : banner reflex-compressed, ovate- 

 oblong, emarginate, long: wings oblong, nar- 

 rower than the other petals, straight : keel 

 straight, compressed, broader outwardly, trans- 

 versely blunt, from the base to the swelling part 

 bifid :' the stamina have diadelphous filaments, 

 (simple and nine-cleft,) bent in at a right angle : 

 anthers roundish, compressed : the pistillum is 

 a slender germ, compressed, linear: style subu- 

 late, bent" in with the stamens: stigma very 

 simple : the pericarpium is a legume with 

 roundish, compressed joints, two-valved, and 

 containing one seed : the seed kidney-shaped 

 and solitary. 



The species chiefly cultivated arc: I. H. Al- 

 liagi, Prickly Hedysarum ; 2. 11. Canadense, 

 Canadian Hedysarum; 3. H. gyrans, Sensitive 

 Hedvsarum ; 4. H. coronarium, Common He- 

 dysarum, or French Honeysuckle; 5. H.Jiexu- 

 oswrra, Waved-podded Hedysarum; 0. H. humile, 

 Dwarf Hedysarum; 7. H.'spinosissimum, Prickly 

 1 [edysarum. 



The first has the stems shrubby, about three 

 feet high, branching out on every side : the 

 leaves are shaped like those of broad-leaved 

 Knot-grass, very smooth, of a pale green co- 

 lour, on short foot-stalks. Under these come 

 out thorns, near an inch long, of. a reddish 

 brown colour. The flowers come out from the 

 side of the branches in small clusters, are of a 



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purple colour in the middle, and reddish about 

 the rims. It is a native of the Levant. 



The second species is an upright plant, and 

 mostly smooth : the stem streaked and angular; 

 the leaflets are lanceolate : the stipules awl- 

 shaped. It is perennial, and a native of Vir- 

 ginia, &c, flowering in July and August. 



The third has a branching perennial root (bi- 

 ennial, annual) : the stem shrubby, three feet 

 high, wand-like, upright, very smooth, round, 

 without knots : the leaves are alternate, petioled, 

 hanging down or spreading, often vertical, 

 sometimes simple but usually ternate, especially 

 in adult plants : the middle leaflet lanceolate, 

 long, flat, quite entire, very smooth, veined ; 

 the side ones very small, and sieming rather to 

 be appendicles than leaflets ; they are on short 

 petioles, which are remarkable for amotion pe- 

 culiar to them. The flowers many and nodding. ' 

 It is a native of Bengal. 



The fourth species has a biennial root : the 

 stems from two to three feet high, hollow, 

 smooth, and branching : the leaves are com- 

 posed of five or six pairs of oval leaflets, termi- 

 nated by an odd one : they are alternate, and 

 from the angles which they form with the stem 

 and branches, peduncles come out five or six 

 inches in length, sustaining spikes of beautiful 

 red flowers, which open in June and July, and 

 perfect seeds in September. It is a native of 

 Spain, &.c. 



There is a variety with white flowers. 



The fifth species is annual, and has some re- 

 semblance to the foregoing, but is much smaller: 

 the stalks rise near a foot high, and the leaves 

 are composed of two or three pairs of ovate 

 leaflets, terminated by an odd one : the flowers 

 come out in spikes at the top of the stalks, and 

 are of a pale red, intermixed with a little blue. 

 They appear in July, and are succeeded by 

 jointed pods. It is a native of the Levant. 



The sixth has a perennial root: the stems half 

 a foot in length, usually with one branch and 

 leaf only: the leaflets obovate-oblong, villose 

 underneath : the spike ovate. It is a native of 

 the South of France, &c, flowering in July 

 and August. 



The seventh is an annual plant : the leaflets 

 four or five pairs, with an odd one, narrow and 

 oblong : the stem terminated by small spikes of 

 purple flowers, which are succeeded by small 

 rough legumes. It is a native of Spain, &c. 



Culture. — All these plants are capable of being 

 raised by sowing the seeds in the early spring. 



In the first sort they should be sown in pots 

 of light earth, and plunged in a moderate hot- 

 bed. When the plants are of some growth they 

 should be removed into separate pots, and be 

 replunged into a very moderate hot-bed, being 



