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Culture. — All these plants, except the fifth 

 sort, may be incffascd either by seeds, layers, 

 or cuttings. The latter methods are proper for 

 the Savin kinds. 



The seeds or berries should be sown in beds 

 of light earth, in the early autunni or spring, 



* but the former is the better in light soils, in a 



• warm sheltered situation, in the open ground, 

 being well raked in. The beds should be kept 

 perfectly clear from weeds, and the young plants 

 be occasionally watered during the summer sea- 

 son. When the plants have had two years' 

 growth in these beds, and are become strong, 

 they should be removed into nursery rows at two 

 feet apart, and a foot or eighteen inches distant 

 in the rows. They should remain in these situ- 

 ations till of proper growth to be planted out 

 where they are to remain. 



The layers of the young branches should be 

 laid down at either of the above seasons, and, 

 when well rooted taken oft", and planted in the 

 nurserv, in the same manner as the seedling 

 plants. 



■ The cuttings should be made from the young 

 branches, and be planted in a shady border, in 

 the latter end of summer, watering them occa- 

 sionally till they have stricken good root j when 

 they may be taken up with earth about their 

 roots, and be managed in the same manner as 

 by the other methods. 



The plants raised in these last ways seldom 

 grow so upright, or to so large a size, as in the 

 seed method. 



The common upright and striped Savins may 

 likewise be increased by planting slips of the 

 young branches; for the last sort the most va- 

 riegated being made use of, in the latter end of 

 summer, or in the autumn, in a shaded border, 

 due water being given. When the plants are 

 come up, theymustbemanagedasthe other sorts. 



The fifth sort must be sown in pots or tubs, 

 at the same seasons as the other sorts, being 

 placed in a frame to have the protection of 

 glasses when the weather is frosty and severe. 

 As the seeds are long in coming up, the mould 

 in the pots. Sec. must remain undisturbed till 

 they appear, being shaded from the sun, and 

 slicrhtly watered occasionally. The young plants 

 should be kept quite free from weeds, and be 

 duly watered till they have attained sufficient 

 erowth to be removed into separate small pots, 

 filled with light earth, which is generally when 

 from one to two years old. In removing them, 

 they should have balls of earth preserved about 

 their roots, and be watered, and placed in a 

 warm situation. The best season for this is in 

 the early spring. But it is of great advantage 

 to plunge the pots in a mild hot-bed. They 



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must be protected in the winter, either in frames, 

 or under a warm fence, the pots being plunged 

 in the earth. When they have been removed into 

 different larger pots till of sufficient large growth, 

 they may be planted out where thty arc to 

 grow, which should be in a warm situation. It 

 IS proper to shelter them the firsi fo winters 

 during severe frosts, by mats, or other siiijilar 

 coverings. 



The proper periods for remo\ing all the dif- 

 ferent sorts into the open ground, are in the 

 early autumn or spring months. 



These plants all succeed in the open ground, 

 and grow in any common soil and situation, 

 with other hardy plants of the tree kind, though 

 they are the ujost prosperous in a light sandy 

 soil, where the aspect is sheltered. 



In placing these kinds of plants in theelumps 

 and shrubbery plantations, attention should be 

 had to arrange them according to their degrees 

 of growth, so as to exhibit a regular gradation 

 of height, placing the low-growing sorts, as 

 the connnon Juniper and Saviii kinds, towards 

 the fionts, and the other larger growing sorts 

 more backwards, in assemblage with other or- 

 namental shrubs and trees of the evergreen 

 tribe; and some may be placed as single stand- 

 ards, onopen spacesof short grass, in the pleasure- 

 ground quarters. Some of the large-growing 

 sorts may also be introduced into the forest-tree 

 plantations; as they have a fine effect, and 

 afford excellent timber for many uses, more par- 

 ticularly the \'irginia Cedar, which arrives at a 

 considerable size, especially when the under 

 branches are trimmed off" occasionally while 

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.ILJPITER'S BEARD. See Anthvllis. 



JUSITCfA, a genus containing plants of the 

 shrubby and herbaceous kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Dlnndrla 

 Ulunogjjnia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 PersonalcB. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed pcrianthium, very Email, five -parted, 

 acute, upright, narrow : the corolla one-petal- 

 led, ringent: tube gibbose : border two-lipped: 

 lip superior oblong, cmarginate : lip inferior, 

 of the same length, reflex, trifid : the stamina 

 have two awl-shaped filaments, hid under the 

 upper lip: anthers upright, bifid at the base: 

 the pistillum is a top-shaped germ : style fili- 

 form, length and situation of the stamens : 

 stigma simple : the pericarpLum is an oblong 

 capsule, obtuse, narrowed at the base, two- 

 celled, two-valvcd : the partition opposite to 

 the valves, gaping with an elastic claw : the 

 seeds roundish. 



The species cultivated are; 1. J, scxangidaris, 



