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in tliis respect, as ihcy generally succeed very 

 well witliout. 



The next business is, in every winter or 

 spring, to dig the ground between the rows oi' all 

 sorts of trans'planted plants in the open Nursery- 

 quarters, a praciice which is particularly neces- 

 sary to all the tree anil shrub kinds that stand 

 wide enough in rows to admit the spade between 

 them ; this work is by the Nursery-men called 

 tuniiiig-in ; the most general season for which 

 is any time from October or November until 

 March ; but the sooner it is done the more ad- 

 vantatjeous it will be to the plants. The ground 

 is to be dug only one spade deep in these cases, 

 ■oroccedlng row by row, turning the top of each 

 •'pit clean to the bottom, that all weeds on 

 the top may be buried a proper depth. It is a 

 most necessarv annual operation, both to destroy 

 weeds, and to increase the growth of the young 

 plants. 



And in the summer season great attention is 

 necessary to keep all sorts clean from weeds ; the 

 seedlings growing close in the beds must be 

 hand-weeded ; but among plants of all sorts that 

 sjrow in rows wide enough to admit the hoe, it 

 will prove not only most expeditious, but, by 

 looseningthetopof the soil, promote the growth 

 of all kinds of plants. It should always be per- 

 formed in dry weather, and before the weeds 

 grow large. See Hoe and Hoeing. 



As soon as any quarter or part of these 

 grounds are cleared from plants, others 

 must be introduced in their room from the 

 seminary ; the ground being previously trench- 

 ed over for the purpose, giving it the addition 

 of manure if necessary. 



It is supposed by some to be of advantage to 

 plant the ground with plants of a different kind 

 from those which occupied it before ; but this 

 IS probably not very material. 



The tender or exotic plants of all kinds tliat 

 require shelter only from frost whilst young, 

 and by degrees become hardy enough to live in 

 the open air, should, such of them as are seed- 

 linss in the open ground, have the beds arched 

 over with hoops, or rods, at the approach of 

 winter, in order to be sheltered with mats in 

 severe weather; and those which are in pots, 

 either seedlings or transplanted plants, should 

 be removed in October in their pots to warm 

 sunny situations sheltered wilh hedges, &c. plac- 

 ino- some close under the fences facing the sun, 

 where they may have occasional covering of mats 

 iui'rosty weather; others that are more tender be- 

 ing: placed in frames, to have theoccaslonal cover- 

 ing either of glass-lights or mats, &.c. observing 

 that ihev are gradually to be hardened to the 

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open ground, and need only be covered in frosty- 

 weather; at all Oilier times they should remain 

 fullyexposed,and,hy degrees, as they acquire age 

 and strength, become inured to bear tUir 'ipen 

 air fully ; so as when they arrive at f'oni two or 

 three to four or five years old, ibcy may be 

 turned out into the open ground. 



The stove and green-house kinds must be 

 managed according to the directions given ua- 

 der these heads. See Green-house Plants. 



NUT, BLADDF^R. See Staphvl.ea. 



NUT, CASHEU. See Anacardium. 



NUT, COCOA. See Cocos. 



NUT, MALABAR. See Justicia. 



NUT, PHYSIC. SeejATKOPHA. 



NUT-TREE. See Corylus. 



NYCTANTHES, a genus containing plants 

 of the shrubby exotic flowering kind. 



It- belongs to the class and order Dmndria 

 ]\Ionogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Sepiari^. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, truncate, quite en- 

 tire, permanent: the corolla one-petalled, salver- 

 shaped : the tube cylindric, the length of the 

 calyx : border five-parted, spreading, with the 

 lobes two-lobed : the stamina have two filaments 

 in the middle of the tube, very short : anthers 

 oblong, the length of the lube : the pistiilum is 

 a superior germ, subovate : style filiform, the 

 length of the tube : stigmas two, acute : the pe- 

 riearpium is an obovate capsule, compressed, with 

 an emarginate dagger-point, coriaceous, two- 

 celled, bipartile : cells parallel, appressed, valve- 

 less : the seeds are solitary, obovate, convex on 

 one side, flat on the other, fastened to the bottom 

 of the cell. 



The species cultivated is: iV. arhor Iristis, 

 Square-stalked Nyctanthes. Other species may 

 he i_ultivated for variety. 



It is a shrub, with four-cornered, rugged 

 branches : the leaves are opposite, petioled, 

 ovate, oblong, quite entire, longer than the 

 branch-joints, rugged on both sides : the pedun- 

 cles axillary, opposite, solitary, four-cornered, 

 shorter by half than the leaf, two leaved at top, 

 with three-flowered pedicels : the partial involu- 

 cre four-leaved? the leaflets are obovate, the 

 length of the calyxes, blunt, containing three 

 sessile florets : the corolla funnel-shaped, with 

 a six- or eight-cleft border : the capsule coriace- 

 ous, superior, obcordate or obovate, tur"^idly 

 lenticular, in the twin, middle ventricose and 

 marked with a longitudinal elevated streak, com- 

 pressed at the sides into a narrow sharp nvargin, 

 the rest brittle, two-celled, bipartile ; with the 

 segments plano-convex, of a brown chestnut 



