BITTER- VETCH, 71 



BELVEDERE. 



CHENOPODIUM SCOPARIA. 



ATRIPLICE^E. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 



Called also Summer Cypress. French, la belvedere; bellevedere; 

 belle a voir. Italian, il belvedere : all which foreign names refer to 

 its beautiful appearance. 



THIS is an extremely handsome plant, growing very 

 close and thick, in the form of a pyramid, as regular as if 

 cut by art : it has so much the appearance of a young 

 cypress tree, that but for the leaves being of a more lively 

 green, it might at a little distance be mistaken for one. It 

 grows naturally in Carniola, Greece, China, and Japan. 



The seeds should be sown in autumn, singly, or several 

 together, and divided into separate pots in the spring, when 

 they come up. In autumn, when they ripen their seeds, if 

 other pots are standing pretty near, the seeds will be apt to 

 fall into them, and the self-sown plants will come up the 

 following spring : so that it will be well to keep such pots 

 as will not admit of such an unceremonious visitor at a suf- 

 ficient distance to secure them from intrusion. The earth 

 should be kept moderately moist. 



BITTER-VETCH. 



OROBUS. 



LEGUMINOS^E. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



French, 1'orobe; pois de pigeon ^pigeon's peaj. Italian, orobo ; 

 robiglia. 



THE Yellow Bitter-Vetch is described by Haller as one 

 of the handsomest of the papilionaceous tribe. It is a 

 native of Siberia, Switzerland, Italy, and the south, of 

 France. Spring Bitter-Vetch has a handsome flower, cu- 



