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which arise a gvc-at number oF stamens, with an 

 unequal number of germs, from five to eight 

 or nine, oblong and eompressed : the capsules 

 are joined logeilier on their inner side, terminate 

 in horns, open longitudinally, and contain manv 

 thin compressed seeds, having borders roaiul 

 them. It is a native of Syria, flowering from 

 July to September. 



Culture. — They are all increased by sowmg 

 the seeds on light earth where the plants are to 

 remain, as thev seldom succeed well when trans- 

 planted in patches at proper distances , and when 

 the plants are come up, they should be thin- 

 ned, leaving only three or four in each patch, 

 keeping them afterwards clear from weeds. 



The best season for sowing is March ; but if 

 some be sown in August, soon after ihey be- 

 come ripe, on a dry soil and in a warm situation, 

 they will abide the winter, and flower strong the 

 succeeding year. By sowing the seeds at dif- 

 ferent times, they may be continued in beauty 

 most part of the summer season. 



As they are all annual plants, they require to 

 be raised every year. 



The varieties with double flowers are chiefly 

 introduced into flower gardens. 



They afford ornament and variety among other 

 annuals in the clumps and borders. 

 NIGHTSHADE. See Solanum. 

 NOLANA, a genus containing a plant of the 

 herbaceous trailing annual kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Penttuidria 

 Mouogynial and ranks in the natural order of 

 AsperiJoUce, or Luridce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 Icafed perianthium, turbinate at the base, five- 

 parted, five-cornered: segments cordate, acute, 

 permanent : the corolla is one-petalled, bell- 

 shaped, plaited, spreading, somewhat five-lobed, 

 twice as large as the calyx : the stamina have 

 five awl-shaped filaments, erect, equal, shorter 

 than the corolla: anthers sagittate : thcpistillum 

 is as five roundish germs : style among the 

 germs, cylindric, straight, the length of the sta- 

 mens : siigma capitate: the periearpium pro- 

 perly none : (drupes five, decumbent, three- or 

 five-celled :) the seeds five, with a succulent riud, 

 nnindish, with ihe inner base naked, immersed 

 in the receptAle, two- celled and four-celled 

 (solitary). 



The species is N'. prostvata, Trailing No- 

 lan a. 



It has an annual root, simple, filiform, often 

 three feet long, blackish : the stem a foot long, 

 herbaceous, prostrate, roundish, very smooth, 

 with white dots scattered over it : the branches 

 .alternate, the lower ones the length of the stalk : 



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the leaves alternate, two together, reflex, rhomb- 

 ovate, quite entire, blunt, somewhat fleshv, nu 

 inch long, somewhat papulose, even, flat, veined, 

 unequal," alternately larger and smaller. Accord- 

 inii to Miller they come out single at some 

 jouits, by pairs at others, and frequently three or 

 "four at the upper joints : the petioles aneipilal, 

 scarcely shorter than the leaves, smooth, those 

 beloniii'ng to the upper leaves vaguely ciliale : the 

 peduncles lateral, solitary, spreading a little, an 

 inch long, one-flowered, round, thicker at top, 

 hairy: the flowers inferior. It is a native of 

 Java. 



CuUurc. — These plants maybe raised by sow- 

 ing the seeds on a hot-bed in March. When 

 the plants are fit to remove, they should be 

 planted out singly into small pots filled with 

 light earth, plunging them into a fresh hot-bed 

 to" brine iheni forward. When their flowers 

 open in'the summer, as July, they should have 

 a lame share of air admitted when the weather 

 is warm, to prevent their fallmg away without 

 producing seeds. Under this management the 

 plants oft'en continue flowering till the early frosts 

 destroy them, and ripe seeds are produced in tht 

 beginning of the autumn. 



They afi'ord variety among other tender an- 

 nuals. 



NOLT ME TANGERE. See Impatiens. 



NONE-SO-PKE'ITV. See Saicifraga. 



NOSE-BLEED. See Acuilleas. 



NUCIPERSICA. See Am YGu ALUS. 



NURSERY, a portion of ground set apart 

 for the raisina; and nursing various sorts of trees, 

 shrubs, and herbaceous plants to proper states of 

 growth for supplying the ditfcrent gardens, orch- 

 ards, plantations, and other dipariinents- 



In these .situations are raised all the difr( rent 

 sorts of fruit-trees, and fruii-bearmg shrubs, by 

 nursimi; and training them up to proper sizes 

 and growths for planting where they are to re- 

 main to produ.e their Iruil, as well as tlue vast 

 tram i>f forest- trees, lirirdy i>rn:imenial trees, and 

 deciduous and ever- green siirubs, traming them 

 up projxrly for the purposes for whu h tlicy are 

 desi-rned in plantations and pleasure-groundB. 



A'nd various sorts of haidy herbaceous planis, 

 both of li-.e fibrous-, bulbous-, and tnl.erons- 

 rooicd kinds may be here provided \u proper 

 states for Iseing planted onl.' 



'i'hese dilVeieiit sorts of plants are raised bv 

 seed, suckers, layers, cuiiuigr. ."hps. ofl-sei;,, 

 parting the lijots, gratlmg, budding, Jxc. as di- 

 rected under their several heads. 



And as some of the vaiums sorts arc dra\\n 

 ofi" annuallv, to supplv diflerent situations, a 

 fresh supplv of voung plants sliould be aeeoid- 



