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on the edges, pretty much veineil, and stand 

 alternately : the flowers are produced from the 

 vvingsottlie stalk; they are white, wii!u)ne ot'tiie 

 segments of a yellowish tinge : it flowers in the 

 latter end of May. Itgrows naturally in Virginia. 

 Citlhire. — This plant may be increased by 

 seeds, layers, and occasionally by cuttings : the 

 seeds should he procured from abroad, and sown 

 in pots, filled with light earth, in the early 

 spring, plunging them in a good hot-bed, water- 

 ing then) well now ; and when the plants aieup 

 liroteciiiig them under frames, or in the green- 

 house, for two or three winters, and hardening 

 them in the summer, then putting them into 

 small pots separately, in the spring placing them 

 in the hot-bed till fresh rooted, watering them 

 occasionally, and oiving proper shade till fresh 

 rooted, then hardenmg them for the summer, 

 hut protecting them in the following winter; 

 then in the spring following, when the weather 

 is f\i\Q. and settled, turning them out with halls 

 about their roots into the open gnunid, placing 

 them in a warm situation. The youiiii shoots 

 may be laid down early in the autumn, in the 

 slit n)eihod, watering them frequently in the 

 followiuE spring and summer, and shading them 

 from excessive heat : when well rooted, in the 

 following spring thev may be taken off and 

 jilanted oiu in separate pots, plunging them in 

 a hot-bed till they have taken fresh roots, when 

 they should be managed as the others. 



The cuttings of the young shoots should be 

 planted out in the spring, in pots of fine light 

 nioidd, plunging them in a hot-bed ; and when 

 they have stricken good roots they may be re- 

 moved into separate pots and managed as the 

 others. 



Thise plants afford ornament and variety in 

 shi tibberies, and among potted plants. 



STVRAX, a genus furnishing an arornatic 

 deciduous tree of the exotic kind. 



It belongs to theclass s.nAo\diir Dcrandr'talSfD- 

 7.'ony?;/V/,aiul ranks in the natural order of i)'/'ro)7/M. 

 'J'he ehaiacters are: that thecalyx is aonc-lcaf- 

 ed perianth, cylindric, erect, short, (Ive-toothed : 

 the corolla one-petallcd, funnel-form : tube 

 short, cylindric, length of the calyx : border 

 five-parted, large, spreading; segments lanceo- 

 late, obtuse: the stamina have ten filaments, 

 erect, in a ring, scarcely united at the base, 

 av\l-shaped, inserted into the corolla: anthers 

 oblong, straight : the pislillimi is a superior 

 germ, three-celled, many seeded: style simple, 

 iencth of the stamens : stigma truncate: theperi- 

 carpium is a roundish drupe^ one-celled : the 

 geeds are nuts one or two, roundish, acuminate, 

 convex on one side, flat on the other. 



l"he species is ."^'. of/icinafc. Officinal Storax. 



It rises In its native situation twelve or four- 

 teen feet hi s;h: thetrunk iscovered with a smooth 

 grayish bark, and sends out many slender 

 branches on every side ; the leaves about two 

 inches long, and an inch and half broad, of a 

 bright green on their upper side, but hoary on 

 their under ; they are entire, and placed alter- 

 nately on short footstalks : the flowers come 

 out from the side of the branches, upon pedun- 

 cles sustaining five or six flowers in a bunch ; 

 are white, and appear in June. It is a native of 

 Italy and the Levant. 



Culture. — It may be increased by seeds, ob- 

 tained from abroad, by sowing them in pots of 

 light earth an inch deep ; and as they are of a hard 

 stony nature, and rarely come up the first year, 

 the pots should be plunged under a frame during 

 cold weather, and be in the shade in sunmier, 

 and in the second spring be plunged in a hot-bed 

 to forward them, being careful tf) give water, and 

 to harden the young plants gradually to the full 

 air in sunnner, in a shady place during the hot 

 weather, being often watered ; and in winter 

 the pots be rei)laced under a garden-frame, &c., 

 to have shelter from frost; then in spring fol- 

 lowing let them be potted ofF separately, and 

 managed as hardy green-house plants for three 

 or four years, when some of them may be turned 

 out into the full ground in a sheltered situation, 

 trained against a south wall, and some may be 

 retained in pots for the green-house collection : 

 they afford ornament and variety in these diffe- 

 rent situations. 



STYRAX. See Liquidambar. 



SUBER. SeeOoERCus. 



SUCKERS, such young offspring plants 

 as arise immediately from the rootsof oklervege- 

 tabics, and which, being generally furnished also 

 with roots, when transplanted, readdy grow, and 

 become proper plants, similar to the mother ones. 



They are proper for increasing their kinds by in 

 many cases, and incertain instances asureniethod 

 to continue anv approved or desirabK; species or 

 variety ; but in grafted and budded trees, the 

 suckers partake onlv of the nature of the stock. 



Some sorts of trees furnish plenty every simi- 

 mer, which are often furnished with root- fibres, 

 affording proper plants for setting out in one 

 season, and of course become a ready means of 

 increase: in trees, See., that are whcdly the same 

 sort, root and top, they prove the same invari- 

 ably in every mode of irrowth, as certainly as by 

 layers, ciittint!;s, grafting. See. 



The season for taking up or transpldiiting 

 suckers of trees and shrubs, is almost any time, 

 in ojien weather, from October till March, being 

 carefid to dig them up from the mother plant 

 with as much rjot-fibres as possible, and trim- 



