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should generally be permitted to spread agreeably 

 to its natural mode of growth, except just re- 

 ducing any considerable rambling branch, &c. 



The Striped or Variegated Yews, and other 

 varieties, should be increased by layers or 

 cuttings, as they are rarely permanent by seeds. 



The layers should be made from the young 

 shoots of not more than a year or two old, being 

 laid down in spring, summer, or early in au- 

 tumn, when many of them will take root, and 

 in one or two years be fit for planting off into 

 nursery-rows. 



The cuttings should be made by cutting or 

 slipping off a quantity of the one-year's shoots, 

 divesting ihem of the lower leaves, and planting 

 them in a shady border thick together, in small 

 trenches, in the early spring or autumn, giving 

 water at planting, and afterwards occasionally in 

 dry hot weather. They will be well rooted in 

 two years, and fit for being planted out into wide 

 nursery-rows. 



These plants may be employed as ornamental 

 evergreens and as forest-trees ; and they were 

 forn>erly much used in hedges and trained figures: 

 they have a good effect in shrubberies among 

 others of the evergreen tribe, being permitted to 

 assume their natural grov^-th, in common with 

 other trees and shrubs; and when planted as de- 

 tached standards, in extensive distartt opens of 

 grass-ground, in parks, and the sides of hills, 

 &c. likewise when introduced as forest-trees in 

 timber plantations of the evergreen kind. See 

 Plantation. 



For hedge-work, where internal hedges are 

 required, either for ornament or shelter, no 

 tree is better calculated, from its forming the 

 closest, even, moderate-growing hedge of any 

 tree of the evergreen collection. It is also cal- 

 culated for training into formal or fancy figures, 

 both in hedge-work and as detached objects, from 

 its branches and leaves growing exceedingly 

 close, and shooting very moderately and with 

 regularity. 



For these purposes the trees shoidd be trained 

 in their minor growth in the nursery ; if for 

 hedges or any fancy figures, by suffering the 

 plants to branch away immediately from the 

 very bottom, and cutting them with garden 

 shears once or twice every summer ; and if for 

 the shrubbery or other rural plantations, by 

 pruning them up a little at bottom to a single 

 stem, and suffering the heads to branch out on 

 all sides and at top diffusively ; likewise, if for 

 larger detached standards, by trimming up the 

 stems gradually to elevate them in proportion, 

 and encourage the heads to branch out, and 

 spread widely. 



TELEPHIUM, a genus furnishing a plant of 

 the small hardy perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentnvdria 

 Trigynla, and ranks in the natural order of Par- 

 iulacece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five- 

 leaved perianth : leaflets oblong, obtuse, con- 

 cave, keeled, length of the corolla, permanent : 

 the corolla has five petals, oblong, obtuse, 

 narrower below, erect, inserted into the recep- 

 tacle; the stamina have five awl-shaped fila- 

 ments, shorter than the corolla: anthers in- 

 cumbent : the pistillum has a three-sided acute 

 germ: style none: stigmas three, acute, spread- 

 ing : the pericarpium is a short capsule, three- 

 sided, three-valvcd, one-celled : the receptacle 

 free, shorter by half than the capsule : seeds 

 very many, roundish. 



The species cultivated is T. hnperati. True 

 Orpine. 



It has a root composed of yellowish woody 

 fibres, spreading out wide : the stalks and 

 branches are slender, trailing, eight or nine inches 

 long: the leaves small, ovate, gravisli, smooth 

 and pretty stiff, having one longitudinal nerve 

 running through the middle : the flowers termi- 

 nating, in short thick bunches, or corymbs^ 

 reflexed, of a white colour. It is a native of 

 the South of France, Spain, &cc. flowering 

 from June to August. 



Culture. — This plant is increased by sowing 

 the seeds in the autumn or spring, in dry light 

 mould, either where the plants are to remain, 

 or in beds to be afterwards planted out. They 

 appear in the spring, when they should be kept 

 clear from weeds, and they will flower the fol- 

 lowing year. 



It is also capable of being increased sometimes 

 by offsets, slips, or cuttings,, planted out in the 

 spring season. 



The plants afford variety in the common 

 borders and clumps. 



TEA-BUCKTHORN. See Rhamnus. 



TEA, NEW JERSEY. See Ceanothus. 



TEA, NEW ZEALAND. See Philadeu- 



PHl) S . 



TEA, OSWEGO. SeeMoNARDA. 



TEA TREE. See Thea. 



TEA, WEST INDIAN. See Sida. 



TERRACE, a sort of raised bank of earth, 

 &c. regularly formed in an oblong manner to 

 any length, broad enough to admit of a spacious 

 level walk at top, and elevated considerably 

 above the level of the general surface ; having 

 the sides uniformly sloped, and laid with grass, 

 and the top formed into a fiat or level, suffi- 

 ciently broad for a grass or gravel walk, of pro- 



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