LOP 



LOT 



•gainst walls and arbours, Sec, for the orna- 

 ment and fragrance of their flowers, laying their 

 branehes ni four or five inches asunder; thin- 

 ning out the superabundant shoots annually, 

 and training in sonic of the most robust for 

 succession wood, either at full length, or short- 

 ened as most proper to fill the space. 



The evergreen kinds aie j)rincipally of the 

 climbing tribe, anrl have much eflecl in their 

 evergreen" fohage and the elegance of their 

 flowers, as well as in their long continuance in 

 blow. 



LOOKING-GLASS PLANT. See Heri- 



TIERA. 



LOOSE-STRIFE See Anagallis. 



LOPPING TREES, the practice of cutting 

 ofl' the boughs or branches of pollard or other 

 trees. This work should be done with great 

 care and attention, so as to prevent the decay 

 of the trees 



Loppingof trees, at tenor twelve years growth, 

 is said to preserve them much longer, and oc- 

 casion the shoots to grow more into wood in 

 one year than tliey do in old tops in two or 

 three. When great boughs are ill taken off, it 

 often spoils the trees; thev should tiierefore 

 always be spared, unless there is an absolute 

 necessity. When they must be cut off, it 

 should be close and smooth, and not parallel to 

 the horizon, covering the wound with loam 

 and horse-dung mixed, or soriie of Mr. Forsyth's 

 composition, to prevent tue wet from entering 

 the bodies of the trees and destroying them. 



There are various signs of the decay of trees; 

 as, the withering or dvingof their top branches; 

 the wet entering at a knot ; their being hollow, 

 or discoloured ; their making but poor shoots, 

 and woodpeckers making holes in them. 



Nothing is more injurious to the growth of 

 timber-trees, than that of lopping or cutting off 

 the great branches from them ; as they grow 

 better without it, and do not decay so soon. 



The dead branches should however be re- 

 moved. 



The proper seasons for this sort of business, 

 are the very early autumn and spring months. 



All sorts of resinous trees, or such as abound 

 with a milky juice, should be lopped very spa- 

 ringly, as thev are subject to decay when often 

 lopped. The best season for lo|)piii<r these 

 trees is the latter end of summer or beginning 

 of autumn ; they then seldom bleed much, and 

 the wounds are commonly healed over before 

 the cold weathc'- sets in. 



Few sorts of ornamental trees should be 

 much lopped, as it greatly injures their beauty 

 and appearance. The onlv thing necessary, is 

 to take off sucli strae triing branches as mav o;row 



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in an awkward or improper direction. Sec 

 Pruning of Trees. 



This sort of work is mostly performed with a 

 siaw, hedging-bill, or ax 



LOKANTIIUS, a genus containing a plant 

 of the exotic kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria 

 Monogtjnia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 yii:;gregaUv. 



Tlie characters are : that the calvx has the peri- 

 anthiuinof the fruit inferior: margin entire, con- 

 cave ; of the flower superior, or the margin entire, 

 concave: the corolla has six, riblona^ petals, revo- 

 lute, equal : the stamina have six avvl-shaped fila- 

 ments, fastened to the bases of the petals, the 

 length of the corolla : anthers obldno- : the pis- 

 tillum is an oblong germ, between the two calyx- 

 es, or inferior : st)-le simple, the ienoth of the 

 stamens : stigma blunt : the pericar|)iuni is aii 

 oblong beVry, one-celled : the seed oblong. 



The species cultivated is L. A)nenca)m<:, 

 American Loranthus. 



Its branches are subdivided, leaFv, smooth, 

 pale green, brittle : the leaves petioled, oppo- 

 site, entile, subcoriaceous, nerved, and pale : 

 the petioles short, compressed, smooth : the 

 racemes subdivided, terminating, with three- 

 cornered branchlets ; the last pedicels trifid, 

 one -flowered : the flowers red. 



It ramps over the highest trees in Jamaica, 

 Sec, especially the Coccoloha graniUfn/za, with 

 the root adhering firmlv to the bark like Mis- 

 tletoe. 



Culture. — This plant may be increased by 

 sowing the seeds as soon as they are fully 

 ripened, in pots of light rich earth, being kept 

 in a mild hot-bed until the beginning of the 

 autuniii, when thev must be plunged in the bark 

 hot-bed of the stove, being afterwards treaUii 

 as other tender plants of the same kind. 



It affords varietv in stove collections. 



LORDS AND-LADIES. See AnuM. 



LOTE-TREE. See Celtis. 



1^0 rUS, a genus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous and under-shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order D'milelphia 

 Decr/ndria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Pafjilw/ii/cece or Lfg/zmi/iosce. 



The characters are : that the caU'x is a simple um- 

 bel : perianthiuni one-leafed, tubular, half-five- 

 cleft: teethacute, equal, erect, permanent : the co- 

 rolla papilionaceous: bannerroundish, bent down: 

 claw oblong, concave: wings roundish, shorter 

 than the banner, broatl, converging upwards : 

 keel gibbous below, closed above, aeuTiiiiKUe, 

 aseendino;, short : the stamina have diadeljihous 

 filaments, simple and nine-clei't, ascending^ 

 with broadisU lips : anthers small, simple : the 



