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The seeds should be sown in the early spring, 

 in pots of light earth, plunging them in ;i mild 

 hot-bed of bark^ When they have attained a 

 little growth, the plants should he pricked out 

 into separate small pots, and be replunged in 

 the hot-bed,, a little water being given. 



The cuttings should he made trom the stalks 

 or young branches five or six inches in length, 

 and planted, in pots of light earth in the spring 

 or sunnner nionths, plunging them in the bark 

 hot-bed. When they have stricken good root 

 they should be ffemoved with earth about their 

 roots into separate pots, and be replunged in 

 the hot-bed, being duly watered and shaded. 



The third sort, or the Cassava, according to 

 Martyn., " thrives best in the West Indies, in 

 a free mixed soil where it is propagated by the 

 bud or gem, in the following manner : The 

 ground is first cleared, and hoed up into shallow 

 holes, of about ten or twelve inches square, and 

 seldom above three or four inches in depth. 

 When they intend to plant, they provide a suf- 

 ficient number of full-grown stems, and cut 

 them into jiniks, of about six or seven inches 

 lenirth, as far as they find them tough and 

 woody, and well furnished with prominent, 

 well-grown, hardy bud^ : of these they Id)' one 

 or two in every hole, and cover them over with 

 mould from the adjoining bank ; but care must 

 be taken to keep the ground clean, until the 

 plants Vise to a sufficient height to cover the 

 mould, and to prevent the growth of all weaker 

 weeds." 



This root, though of a poisonous quality, 

 serves for bread to the inhabitants of the West 

 Indies, when divested of this property, which 

 is done by rubbing the root forcibly upon a 

 strong copper grater, till reduced to a rough 

 saw-dust-like powder, or meal : it is then put 

 into a press to squeeze out the poisonous juice ; 

 and, being sufficiently pressed and sifted, is 

 made into bread, by spreading it two or three 

 inches thick, upon an iron plate heated over 

 the fire ; and thus the parts join, incorporate, 

 and become cake bread, which is accounted 

 very nourishing. 



They all require to be sparingly watered in 

 the winter season, to prevent their rotting; and 

 to be kept constantly in the stove, where they 

 afford variety, and a fine appearance in their 

 lariie foliage and flowers. 



IHERIS, a genus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous, annual, perennial, and under- 

 shrubbv kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Tetradyna- 

 mici Siliculosa, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Siliqtiosce, or Criicijormes. 



Tlie characters are : that the calyx is a four- 



leaved perianthium : leaflets obovale, concave, 

 spreading, small, equal, deciduous : the corolla 

 is four-petalled, unequal : petals obovate, ob- 

 tuse, spreading: claws oblong, upright: of 

 these the two exterior petals are far larger, and 

 equal to each other : the two interior very small, 

 reHex : the stamina have six awl-shaped fila- 

 ments, upright : of which the two lateral ones 

 are shorter : anthers roundish : the pistillum is 

 a roundish, compressed germ: style simple, 

 short : stigma obtuse : the pericarpium is an 

 upright, suborbiculate, compressed silicle, emar- 

 ginate, surrounded by a sharp edge, two-celled: 

 partition lanceolate : valves navicular, com- 

 pressed, carinated : the seeds a few, and sub- 

 ovate. 



The species are : 1.7. iimlellata. Purple 

 Candy-tuft; 2. /. amara, White Candy-tuft; 

 3. I. Unifolia, Flax-leaved Candy-tuft; 4. /. 

 odornta. Sweet-scented Candy-tult; 5. /. ro- 

 tundifolia, Round-leaved Candy-tuft; 6. /. sem- 

 perjiorens, Broad-leaved Evergreen Candy-tuft; 

 7. /. sempervircns , Narrow-leaved Evergreen 

 Candy-tuft; S. /. Gihraltarica, Gibraltar Can- 

 dy-tuft. 



The first has an annual root, white, oblong, 

 fusiform : the stem upright, leafy, half a foot, or 

 from a spanjtoafoot in height, subangular, green, 

 smooth, branching: the leaves are frequent, alter- 

 nate, lanceolate, acuminate, smooth: the flowers 

 in a hemispherical corymb, on peduncles half 

 an inch in length, of a pale purple colour. It 

 is a native of the south of Europe, flowering in 

 June and July. 



There are varieties with bright purple flowers, 

 and with white flowers. 



The second species resembles- the first very 

 mach, but is smaller : the stem i? seven or 

 eight inches high, pubescent, somewhat rugged, 

 branched : branches diflTused, alternate, the 

 lower ones sometnues opposite, not rising all to 

 the same height : the leaves are alternate, ob- 

 laneeolate, or linear-lanceolate, blunt, sessile, 

 decurrent, bright green, thickish, smooth, the 

 lower ones serrate, the rest tootbletted, espe- 

 cially in front, or with a tooth or two on each 

 side: the flowers white, in a terminating spike- 

 like raceme ; or rather, in a corymb lengthened 

 into a raceme as the inflorescence advances. It 

 is a native of Switzerland, &c. 



The third has a simple, white, twisted root,, 

 having few fibres : the root-leaves lanceolate- 

 linear, serrate, withering and falling as the stem, 

 advances: stem-leaves Imear, quite entire, ses- 

 sile, few, gradually shorter,.sharpish : the stem, 

 herbaceous, straight, slender, Ijianched at top : 

 branches mostly bifid : the flowers of a purple 

 colour, in corymbs, the outer ones pcduncled. 



