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strong rushes, free from grass and 

 moss, and from rubbish of all sorts. 

 Upon this bed the ice is put, broken, 

 and beaten down together in the usual 

 manner. As we have seen, there is a 

 passage, e ; two feet wide is enough 

 for this passage, so that you may 

 have two doors, and the inner door 

 open. This inner door may be of hurdle 

 work and straw, and covered on one of 

 the sides with sheep skins with the 

 wool on, so as to keep out the external 

 air. The outer door, which must lock, 

 must be of wood, made to shut very 

 closely, and covered besides with skins 

 like the other. At times of great 

 danger from heat or from wet, the 

 whole of the passage may be filled with 

 straw. The door, Fig. 3, should face 

 the north, or between north and east ; 

 as to the size of the ice-house, that 

 must of course depend upon the quan- 

 tity of ice that you may choose to have. 

 A cubic foot of ice will, when broken 

 up, fill much more than a Winchester 

 bushel. 



ICE-PLANT. Mesembrya'nthemum cryS' 

 talli 1 num. 



ICHNOCA'EPUS. (From ichnos, a ves- 

 tige, and karpos, a fruit; in reference 

 to the slender seed-vessels. Nat. ord., 

 Dogbanes [Apocynacese]. Linn., 5- 

 Pentandria l-Monogynia. Allied to 

 Apocynum.) 



Stove evergreen twiner. Cuttings of small 

 side shoots, in April, in sand, and in heat. 

 Summer temp., 60 to 80; winter, 50; peat 

 and loam. 



/. frute'sccns (shrubby) . 10. 

 East Indies. 1759. 



Purple. July. 



I'CICA. (The native name in Guiana. 

 Nat. ord., Amyrids [ Amyridacese] . 

 Linn., IQ-Dccandria 1-Monoyynia.) Al- 

 lied to Bursera.) 



Stove evergreen balsam, producing trees with 

 white flowers, and all but one natives of Guiana. 

 Cuttings of ripened young shoots, in strong 

 heat, in sand, and under a bell-glass ; peat and 

 loam. Summer temp., 60 to 80; winter, 50 

 to 55. 



I. alti'ssima (highest). 100. 1822. 



deca'ndra (ten-stamened). 40. 1825. 



ennea'ndra (nine-stamened). 20. 1822. 



Guiane'nsis (Guiana). 50. 1823. 



heterophy' lla (various-leaved). 50. 1826. 



Tacamaha'ca (Tacamahac). 30. Trinidad. 



1819. 



I'LEX. The Holly. (From the re- 



semblance of the leaves to the Ilex 

 of Virgil, Quercus ilex. Nat. ord., Holly- 

 worts [Aquifoliacese]. Linn., 4^-Tetran- 

 dria 3-Tetragynia.) 



All white-flowered but one. By seed, which 

 should be kept in the rot-heap for a twelve 

 month after gathering, frequently turned in the 

 mean time, to rot the pulp, and then sown in 

 beds. The varieties by grafting and budding 

 the first in March, and the second in July ; by 

 cuttings of the ripened summer shoots in au- 

 tumn, on a north border, and covered with 

 hand-glasses; soil, sandy loam, in any place 

 free from stagnant water. See Holly. 



GREENHOUSE EVERGREENS. 



7. angustifo'lia (narrow-leaved). 6. May. Ca- 

 rolina. 1806. 



Chine'nsis (Chinese). 10. July. China. 1814. 



Magella'nica ( Magellan). Magellan. 1838. 



Half-hardy. 



Pera'do (Perado). 10. Pink. May. Ma- 



deira. 1760. 



serra'ta (saw-edged-leaved). Japan. 1840. 



STOVE EVERGREENS. 



I. myrtifo'lla (Myrtle-leaved). 6. July, West 

 Indies. 1806. 



Paragu'ensis (Paraguay Tea}. 15. Paraguay. 



sa licifo 'lia( Willow-leaved), 5. May. Mau- 



ritus. 1818. 



HARDY EVERGREENS. 



7. Aquifo'lium (prickly-leaved. Common). 20. 



May. Britain. 

 -- a'lbo margina'tum (white-edged). 



12. May. Britain. 

 -- a'lbo pi'ctum (white - painted. 



Milkmaid}. 20. April. Britain. 

 -- altaclare'nse (High-Clere). 20. 



April. Britain. 

 -- angustifo'lium (narrow - leaved). 



20. May. Britain. 

 --- au'reo margina'tum (gold-edged). 



12. May. Britain. 



au'reo pi'ctum (gold - spotted - 

 leaved). 20. May. Britain. 



cilia'tum (hair - fringed - leaved}. 

 20. May. Britain. 



cilia'tum mi'nus (smaller-hair- 

 fringed-/eawe<Z). 20. May. Britain. 



crassifo'lium (thick-leaved). 20. 

 May. Britain. 



cri 'spurn (curled - leaved), 20. 

 May. Britain. 



fe'rox (fierce. Hedgehog}. 12. 

 May. Britain. 



- fe'rox arge'nteum (silvery-fierce). 

 20. May. Britain. 



fe'rox au'reum (golden -fierce). 

 May. Britain. 



fla'vum (yellow). 15. May. 

 Britain. 



fru'ctu a'lbo (white-berried). 20. 

 May. Britain . 



fru'ctu lu'teo (yellow - berried). 

 20. May. Britain. 



fru'ctu ni'gro (black berried). 

 20. May. Britain. 



