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March, and feeming: to occupy the place of our rabis 
thaliana, which, however, it much exceeds in beauty. The 
eaves are hoary with ftellated hale, and itrongly toothed. 
Flowers ~ oceafionally purple or white. 
HesPeris, in Gardening, contains plants -of the har 
herbaceous, flowery kind ; of which the fpecies matty 
cultivated are, on night-{melling rocket, or dame’s violet 
(HL. triftis) ; en nur er queen’s Serna 
(H. Pores Fp : = the unfavoury rocket (H. inodora). 
The fecond fpecies has different varieties, as with fingle 
pusple flowers, with double flowers of each colour, and 
with a mixture of each colour. nd the Siberian variety 
has a ftem ,of twice the height of the —- fort, the co- 
or by cuttings made from t er ftem 
In the feed seit ls he well-ripened pac fhould be fown 
in the early part of the {pring on a bed or border of light ftems. 
earth, being raked in ane: or rer in with light mould 
to the depth of a quart nch. When the young 
~ plants have acquired a fe inches gions they fhould be 
planted out in beds, fix inches apart, in order to continue 
until autumn or the fpring following, when they fhould 
be eg aene to the places where they are to grow and 
owe 
- their ~ 
or the Fllowing hea 3; at which times 
fully uta to the places where the 
Roars vifed “aE when each of them will 
conte a aaa for flowering in ucceeding year. This 
uld be had reco 
to decline, but which are 
: ae out the cuttings o of the 
in the early part of the “ote 
vanced about a foot in length, or 
before the Poet flower, each being divided into two or 
peo He glib a four or five inches i in length. The 
nes the beft cuttings. 
“Tile Bena thould be — a in a = order, 
and planted eut The 
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depofiting them two parts within the ground and about 
three inches afunder, water eing given at the time, and ree 
peated as there may be 
In mott cafes, a bole "of the cuttings will have ftricken 
y, good root, and formed fhoots at the tops in the courfe of 
fix or eight weeks. But in order to promote their taking 
yoot ina more effe€tual manner, they ought to be covered 
clofely with bell or hand-glaffes as foon as they are planted, 
raifing them occafionally as the plants begin to fhoot at the 
tops, in order to the admiffion of air, to the influence of 
which they fhould “a gradually hardened. 
Thefe different {fpecies of plants afford a fine ornamental 
ati of the a ca aye ae the front parts of 
the more fhowy clumps, and on the fides of the lawns and 
walks, in wil they fhould be always planted in the autuma 
or very early fpring, before they begin to pufh for flower 
ESPERIS, in Ancient G eography, a town of Cyrenaica, 
reckoned by Pomponius Mela among the five towns of the 
Pentapolis, a other four me in Apollonia, Prolemais, Are 
finoé, and Cyrené. The n mee Halgesia s, according to Pliny, 
—— and Ammianus Marcellas g eostercr to Berenice, 
whic 
HESS, EL, in Semratie: a town of Nubia, fix miles s. 
of Sennaar. 
epee an. — in the Nile, s1 miles S. of Syené. 
pula - pms aes ieence. e bu _ 
ears a 
nea 
onl 00,184, and poffeffing a milit force of 2,000 men. 
The “ iach pet Helle-Ca ffel has n 
—. = about 1,200,000 rix -dollars ; and that of Darm- 
ooo. Heffe is divided into Upper and soba 
noe fub-divided into five diftrits, which take their name 
from the rivers Lahn, Schwa!m, Fulda, Werra, and Diemel, 
principal town of ‘Hee. Heffe is Caffel, and burg 
is the ca Saale of U er Heffle 
: . ountainous, interfperfed with 
and 
ae 
rtile in corn and aoe y which feed 
Te abounds i in game and fifh, and 
ands of the Eder contain particles 
accol 
copper, lead, alum 
marble and. —— pr fome medicinal waters+ 
parts are wate .hine and which ar re the wo 
principal rivers, In this country, the fates _— + an 
orders, VIZ. os pacts i b si from Ca : een 
burg, and othe ref shake 
two or thie faperine univerfities are tn = 
