TAN 



TAR 



terminating corymbs, of a golden colour and 

 flattish. It is a native oF Europe and Siberia, 

 flowering from June to August. 



There are varieties with curled leaves, called 

 Duuble Tansy; with varicsiated leaves j and with 

 larger leaves, which have little scent. 



Tiie second species is an annual plant, rising 

 abi)ut two feet high : the stem stiff", but herba- 

 ceous, sending out many side branches their 

 whole length ; the lower ones four or five inches 

 Ions, gradually shorter to the top : the leaves 

 come out in small clu.sters from the joints; they 

 are very narrow and short ; sonie end in three 

 points, others are single : the branches are ter- 

 minated bv clusters of flowers of a bright yellow ; 

 each corynib on a short peduncle. 'I'hey appear 

 in July or August, and continue till the frost 

 destroys them, ft has a fine aromatic scent, and 

 is a native of Spain and Italy. 



The third has a hardy root, fleshy and creep- 

 inc;: the lower leaves near three inches long, 

 and an inch and half broad, of a grayish colour, 

 2ud on long footstalks: the stems rise from two 

 to three feet high, and send out branches from 

 the side: the leaves on these are like the lower 

 c;ne3, but smaller and sessile: the flowers are 

 produced at the top of the stems in a loose co- 

 rymb ; llicv are nalied, and of a deep yellow 

 colour, appearing in August. The whole plant 

 has a soft pleasant odour. It is a native of the 

 South of France, Spain, and Italy. 



The fourth species has the leaves linear, pin- 

 nate : pinnas hnear, filiform, often bifid or 

 trifid, quite entire: the corymb terminating and 

 others axillary, few-flowered ; flowers yellow : 

 the root is fibrous perennial : the stalks inore 

 than two feet high. It flowers in June and July, 

 and is a native of Siberia. 



7he fifth species rises with a branching shrubby 

 stalk, three or four feet high : the segments of 

 the leaves arc very narrow, and frequently cut 

 into acute segments : the flowers are produced in 

 small roundish bunches, at the ends of the 

 branches, of a bright yellow, and appear in 

 August. It is a native of the Cape. 



The sixth species has all the florets herma- 

 phrodite and five-cleft: the receptacle naked, 

 not chaflTy. It is a native of the Cape, flowering 

 from May to August. 



Cidltire. — The different herbaceous species are 

 increased by parting the roots, and by seed. 



In the first mndt- the business is effected by 

 slipping or dividing the roots in autumn or 

 winter," when the sialks are decayed ; or early in 

 spriniT, before new stalks shoot forth, filanting 

 the slips at once where they are to remain ; those 

 for the kitchen-garden, as the Common Tansy, 

 Sec. in anv bed or border a foot and a half 



asunder; and those intended for variety in the 

 pleasure-ground, singly here and there, at suit- 

 able distances, to effect a proper diversity. 



The seed saved in autumn should be sown in 

 the spring following, in beds of light earth, 

 broad-cast and raktd in, when the plants will 

 soon come up, and in July be fit to prick out in 

 beds, in rows a foot asunder ; some to remain, 

 and others to be planted out in autumn where 

 thev are to grow. 



The shrubby sorts are easily increased by cut- 

 tings of the branches, which should be planted 

 any time in spring and summer, choosing the 

 young and most robust shoots, which should be 

 cut off' in proper lengths ; and if early in spring, 

 !kc. be planted m pots of good earth, several in 

 each, plunging them in a hot-bed, where they 

 will be rooted, and fit for potting off separately 

 in six weeks; or, if in sunmier, the young 

 shoots inay be planted in the full ground, in a 

 shady border, or where they may be shaded with 

 mats from the sun ; or in pots, and placed in 

 the shade, or under a garden frame, &c.; in all 

 of which methods, giving plenty of water, they 

 will readily take root; but those in the hot-bed 

 will l)c forvi'ardest : they however will all be 

 well rooted the same season, and should then be 

 transplanted in separate pots, and managed as 

 other shrubby green-house plants. See Green- 

 house Plants. 



The former sorts require to be afterwards 

 kept free from weeds, cutting down the decayed 

 stalk? annually in autumn ; and as the roots in- 

 crease fast into large bunches, spreading widely 

 round, they should be cut in, or be slipped oc- 

 casionally, otherwise they are apt to overrun 

 the ground ; and to have the ground dug between 

 the plants annually. 



The latter sorts are somewhat tender, but only 

 require shelter from frost, being kept in pots, 

 and deposited among the ereen-house plants, 

 and treated as other shrubby exotics of that col- 

 lection. They effect a very agreeable variety at 

 all times of the year, but particularly in summer 

 and autumn, when in flower. 



TAHCHONANTHUS, a genus containing a 

 plant of the shrubby evergreen exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Sijngenesia 

 rolijgawia JEjUalh, and ranks in the natural 

 ordei of Nucamtntactce. 



The characters are : that the calvx is com- 

 mon turbinate, one- leafed, connnonly half- 

 sevrn-clelt, coloured internally, shorter than 

 the corolla, sharpish, permanent: the corolla 

 conip luiid uniform: florets about twenty : co- 

 rollcts hermaphrodite, numerous, equal : proper 

 one-pctalied, funnel-form, fivc-toothcd ; the 

 stamina have five filaments, capillary, very 



