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nine pairs of leaflets, which are much smaller. 

 It flowers also a month earlier, and the blos- 

 soms are of a brighter yellow, and there is a 

 succession of them till late in the Autumn, 

 on which account it is preferred in our shrub- 

 beries. Dr. Russell, who resided many years 

 at Aleppo, informs us that this shrub is very 

 common about that city. These plants are 

 all easily propagated by sowing their seeds in 

 the spring in a bed of common earth. The 

 plants raised from suckers are never so fine 

 as those produced from seed ; and Mr. Curtis 

 tells us (he says from experience) that a wet 

 soil is fatal to the common bladder senna. 

 Mr. Miller recommends the hanging of lobster 

 claws, or bowls of tobacco pipes, on these 

 shrubs, to entice the earwigs, who eat their 

 way into the bladders ; and thus housed de- 

 stroy the seed. 



