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ARBORETUM AND FRUTJCKTUJM. 



PART HI, 



should be sheltered ; and shaded rather than otherwise. The usual mode 

 of propagation is by layers ; and the stools are sometimes protected, during 

 winter, by mats. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost 5s. each ; at Boll- 

 wyller, 15 francs; and at New York, 50 cents. 



Genus II. 



STUA'RT/J Cav. The Stuartia. Lin. Syst. Monadelphia Pentandria. 



Identification. Cav. Diss., 5. p. 393. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p 528., as Stewarts ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 573. 

 Derivation. Named in honour of John Stewart, Marquess of Bute, the patron of Sir John Hill, and a 

 distinguished promoter of botanical science. 



General Character, fyc. Calyx permanent, 5-cleft, rarely 5-parted, furnished 

 with two bracteas at the base. Petals 5. Ovary roundish. Style 1, fili- 

 form, crowned by a capitate 5-lobed stigma. Capsule woody, 5-celIed, 

 5-valved; cells 1 — 2-seeded. Seeds wingless, ovate, even. {Don's Mill. y \. 

 p. 573.) — A deciduous shrub, or low tree, with large white flowers. . 



& 1. Stua'rt//* virgin ic a Cav. The Virginian Stuartia. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 528 ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 573. 



Synonymes. Stewarts Malachodendron Lin. Sp., 982. ; Stuart?'o marilandica Bot. Rep. ; Stewartia a 



uti Style, Fr. ; eingriffliche (one-styled) Stuartie, Ger. 

 Engravings. Lam. 111., t. 593. ; Bot. Rep., t. 397. ; and our fig. 92. 



Spec. Char., $c. Flowers large, white, with purple filaments 

 and blue anthers, usually in pairs. Leaves ovate, acute. 

 Petals entire. (Don's Mill., i. p. 573.) A deciduous 

 shrub ; from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high in Virginia, its native 

 country, and attaining nearly the same height in British 

 gardens. It is found in swamps in the lower parts both 

 of Virginia and Carolina ; and was introduced into Eng- 

 land in 1742. The general appearance of the plant is the 

 same as that of the preceding genus ; but it forms a 

 smaller bush, and the foliage has a redder hue. The 

 flowers are of the same size, white, with purple fila- £ > "" 

 ments and blue anthers. This plant is not so extensively cultivated 

 as the other, from its being of somewhat slower growth ; but its beauty, 

 and the circumstance of its flowering from July to September, when 

 but few trees or shrubs are in blossom, render it desirable for every collec- 

 tion. It thrives best in a peat soil, kept moist ; but it will also grow in deep 

 moist sand. In this, as in similar cases, care should be taken that no ram- 

 pant plant be placed near it, the roots of which might penetrate into 

 the mass of peat or sand, and, from their greater vigour, soon occupy it, 

 and destroy, or greatly injure, those of the Stuartia. The propagation of 

 this plant is the same as that of Malachodendron ; from which it is sepa- 

 rated on account of a technical difference in the capsules, somewhat similar 

 to that by which Thea is separated from Camellw. There are large plants of 

 this species in the Mile End Nursery. The price is the same as that of 

 Malachodendron. 



Genus III. 



GORDO v N/yi Ellis. The Gordonia. Lin. Syst. Monadelphia 



Polyandria. 



Identification. Ellis, in Phil. Trans., 1770.; Cav. Diss., .307; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 528. ; Don's Mill. 

 J. p. 573. 



