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in the forenoon, and in a northern ont', the first 

 thiny; ni the morning; but in a southern aspect, 

 about tburo'cloek in theatlernoon. And when 

 northerly or easterly winds and tVosty nights pre- 

 vail, it should be di-^eontinued till the weather be- 

 comes mild. The trees shouklalways get drybc- 

 fore night, and never be watered wlien the sun is 

 upon them. Care must likewise be taken that 

 the grounds of the lime be not made use of, as 

 it would make the trees liave a disagreeable ap- 

 pearanee. See Puckron and Vink-Fretthr. 



LIMODOHUM, a genus containing plants 

 of the bulbo-tuberous-rooted herbaceous [leren- 

 nial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Gi/7iandria 

 Diaiidria, and ranks in the natural order of Or- 

 chidece. 



The characters are : that the calyx has vague 

 spathes: spadi.N simple: there is no perianthium : 

 tiie corolla, petals five, ovate-t;biong, about 

 equal, spreading: the superior ones converging : 

 nectary one-leafed, concave, footstalked, with- 

 in the lowest petal ; the length of the petals : 

 the stamina two : filament an oblong, ascend- 

 ing body, the lennth of the corolla : anthers 

 two, ovate, looking forwards : the pistdlum 

 is a columnar germ, the length of the corolla; 

 inferior : style iiliform, growing to the body of 

 the filaments : stignia funnel-form : the pericar- 

 punn is a columnar capsule three-valved, one-cell- 

 ed, gaping at the corners : the seeds numerous, 

 saw-dust-like. 



The species cultivated are : \. L. tuberosum, 

 Tuberous-rooted Limodoruni : 2. L.altum, Tall 

 Limodorum : 3. L. Tankervillice , Chinese Li- 

 modorum. 



The first has a tuberous root : the stem a 

 foot and half high : the number of flowers not 

 exceeding five, dark purple : in a more luxuri- 

 ant state it is probably a larger plant, and pro- 

 duces more flowers. It is a native of North 

 America. 



The second species has a root shaped like 

 that of the true SaflTron, but the outer co- 

 ver of a darker brow n colour ; fron) this come 

 out two or three leaves nine or ten inches long, 

 and near three quarters of an inch broad in the 

 middle, being contracted towards both ends, 

 terminating with long acute points, folding 

 over each other at their base ; they have five 

 longitudinal furrows, like the first leaves of 

 young palms : the flower-stalk arises immedi- 

 ately from the root, on one side of the lea\''es ; 

 it is naked, smooth, and of a purplish colour 

 towards the top : it is near a foot and a half 

 high, and terminated by a loose spike of pur- 

 plish red flowers on short peduncles. The 

 bulb tubercled, roundish^ of a fleshy and fibrose 



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substance, covered with a coriaceous shining 

 skin,atul having some tomentosc white fibres un- 

 derneath : the leaves from the buib, vernal, two 

 feet long, broad-lanceolaie, longitudinally folded 

 at the nerves, even, very like Ihose of a youn"- 

 plant of the coco palm : scape snnple, upright, 

 sometimes subdivided at tO]), two feet hroh, 

 even, round ; it has little sheaths on it, wh'ich 

 are remote, prasraorse, embracing, netted, pale: 

 the flowers terminating, scattered, alternate, 

 large, purple, sometimes varying to white. It 

 is a nati\e of the West Indies, flowerin"" in 

 June and July. 



Ihe third lias a bulb fibrous root, from which 

 proceed three or four oblong, oval, pointed 

 leaves plaited and narrowed at the base, about a 

 foot and a half in length, and seven inches in 

 breadth in the middle part: the iiower-stalk 

 rises from ihe root upwards of two feet in 

 height, and isfurnished with along spike of lar-'e 

 beautiful flowers, each consisting of five oblong- 

 spreading petals of a pure white on their upper- 

 side, and brown underneath, with a large con- 

 cave nectarium tins;ed with red towards "the ex- 

 tremity, and succeeded by a three-cornered co- 

 lumnar germen inclosing the seeds. It is a 

 native of China, flowering in March and April. 



L'lilture. — These plants are increased by 

 planting the off'-sets from the roots in pots of 

 bog earth, plunging them in the first sort in a 

 mild tan-pit, and in the others in the tan hot- 

 bed of the stove. The proper time of taking 

 them oft' is when the plants are the most desti- 

 tute of leaves. 



The two last sorts should have a loamy mould, 

 and but little water in the winter season. 



The first requires the protection of a (jood 

 green-house in winter, and the two last nmst 

 be kept in the bark-bed of the stove. 



They afliord variety in the green-house and 

 stove collections. 



LIMON. See Citbus. 



LINING HOT-BEDS, the practice of ap- 

 plying a layer of hot-dung to the sides of tlie 

 beds to revive and keep up the declining heat. 

 It is essentially necessary in the culture of 

 plants on dung hot-beds in early seasons in 

 winter or spring, until May. As these hot-beds 

 generally in from three or four to five or six 

 weeks, according to their substance, begin to 

 decline in their degree of heat, they r'equire 

 a revival to continue them in regular heat ; 

 which in dung hot-beds can only be effected 

 in this manner. It is applied to one or both 

 sides as there may be occasion. 



Thus, by the occasional repetition of two, three, 

 or more hnings, a hot-bed is continued in a 

 proper degree of heat several months, as exem- 



