VEGETABLES. 



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CalicanXhus Florichis^ sweet-scented shrub, Ca- 

 rolina allspice. This favourite shrub is a native of 

 the southern states, and occupies a considerable 

 range of hilly country, beneath our chains of moun- 

 tains from Pennsylvania to West Florida. 



This shrub is of a middle size, with many stems as- 

 cending from the same source, eight feet high, co- 

 vered with a brown aromatic bark, with two entire 

 leaves placed opposite on every joint, on short foot- 

 stalks. The flowers grow single, on short pedua- 

 eles, at the extremity of the branches: they have 

 two series of narrow thick petals, which spread open 

 and turn inward at the top. These are of a dusky 

 purple colour, of a scent composed of the pine-apple 

 and strawberry fragrance : the pericarps are also 

 highly aromatic. There are two varieties; one 

 with lon?^ leaves ; another with round leaves. The 

 fiowers appear late in May. 



This charming shrub bears the climate of Penn- 

 sylvania very well ; and may be easily propagated 

 by laying down the young branches, which will take 

 root in one year, and may be taken from the mother 

 plant, and set where they are designed to remain ; 

 for they do not bear transplanting well after they are 

 grown to a tolerable size. 



One of the numerous species of the genus liatru^ 

 (I. odoratissimaj^ is called in Georgia, where it 

 abounds, vanilla^ from the circumstance of the leaves 

 possessing the powerful perfume of that grateful 

 exotic. 



Eddoes, a variety of the arum esculentum) L. 

 anotlier variety is the tanniers, 



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