natural tendency to afpire, for they wind about every thing that is near them; fo that, together with the affiftance nature has given them of tendrils, it is no wonder they arrive at so great an height. These branches, or rather stalks, have a fmooth furface, are often of a reddifh colour, particularly next the fun, and are very tough. The tendrils grow from the joints; they are bowed, and are divided into three parts. The leaves grow in pairs at the joints, and are four in number at each. These are of an oblong figure, have their edges entire, and are very ornamental to the plant; for they are of an elegant green colour: their under furface is much paler than their upper, and their footstalks, midrib, and veins, alter to a fine purple. The flowers are monopetalous and bell-shaped. The tube is very large, and the rim is divided and spreads open. They grow from the wings of the leaves, in August, two ufually at each joint; and they are succeeded in the countries where they grow naturally by long pods.

4. The TENDRIL BIGNONIA is another fine climber, which rifes by the affiftance of tendrils or clafpers. The leaves grow at the joints oppofite by pairs, though thofe which appear at the bottom frequently come out fingly. They are of an oblong figure, and continue on the plant all winter. The flowers are produced in Auguft, from the wings of the leaves: they are of the fame nature, and of the fhape nearly of the former; are large, of a yellow colour, and fucceeded by fhort pods.

5. The SCARLET TRUMPET FLOWER will arrive to a prodigious height, if it has either buildings or trees to climb up by; for it ftrikes root from the joints into whatever is near it, and thus will get up to the tops of buildings, trees, &c. be they ever fo high. This fpecies has pinnated leaves, which grow oppofite by pairs at the joints. Thefe leaves are composed of about four pair of folioles, which end with an odd one. They are of a good green colour, have their edges deeply cut, and drawn out into a long point. The flowers are produced in August, at the ends of the branches, in bunches: they are large, and, like the other, are compofed of one tube; but they are shaped more like a trumpet than any of the forts. They are of a fine red colour, and make a grand fhow. This is the fort chiefly known by the name of the Scarlet Trumpet Flower.

There is another fort called, the Smaller Trumpet Flower. It differs from the laft only in that the leaves and flowers are

fmaller,

fmaller, and fome fancy their colour to be a finer red; the colour of the former, in fome fituations, often approaching to that of an orange colour. These two forts are more hardy than any of the others, and confequently more proper to be fet against old walls, &c. in expofed fituations: they will all, however, bear our climate very well; though it would be advifeable to fet the tender forts in well-fheltered places, as they will otherwife be in danger of fuffering by fevere frofts, efpecially while young, if there be nothing to break them off.

The PROPAGATION of the Climbers. 1. If the shoots are laid upon the ground, and covered with a little mould, they will immediately ftrike root, and become good plants for fetting out where they are wanted. 2. They will all grow by cuttings. The bottom part of the ftrongest young fhoots is the best; and by this method plenty may be foon raised. 3. They are to be raifed by feeds; but this is a tedious method, efpecially of the pinnated-leaved forts; for it will be many years before the plants raifed from feeds will blow.

BUPLE URUM.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Pentandria Digynia: Each flower contains five males and one female. There are fixteen SPECIES; but they are principally herbaceous: There is only one fit for open grounds in this country.

BUPLEURUM Fruticofum: The ETHIOPIAN HARTWORT, or the SHRUBBY BUPLEURUM; an evergreen shrub; growing natu rally amongst the rocks on the coaft of the South of France, and alfo in fome parts of Italy.

The ETHIOPIAN HARTWORT is of low growth; it feldom rifes more than eight feet high; and will produce plenty of flowers before it gets to the height of one yard. The bark of the oldeft ftems is of a brown, that on the younger fhoots of a reddish, colour; but this is not conftant, for fometimes it will be greyish, at others of a purplish blue. The leaves are of a fine pale green colour, and placed alternately on the branches. They are of an oblong, oval figure, and have their edges entire. They are finooth, and, being of a delicate pale green, are very ornamental to the fhrub. The flowers are produced from

the

the ends of the branches, in longifh umbels. They make no great figure (having but a bad yellow colour), appear in July and Auguft; and are fucceeded by feeds, which will often, though not always, ripen with us; and by which, when they do, plenty of plants may be raised.

The method of PROPAGATING this fhrub is either from feeds fown in pots of rich light loom in March; or from cuttings, in the following manner: The latter end of July is the time; and if the weather be moist or rainy, fo much the better; if not, some beds must be well dug, and made moift by watering. The cuttings should be planted in the evening, and the beds must be hooped, to be covered with mats in the heat of the day. On their being first planted, no fun fhould come near them; but after they have been fet a fortnight, they may have the morning fun until nine o'clock, and afterwards fhading; obferving always to uncover them in the evening, as alfo in moist, cloudy, or rainy weather. Many of thefe cuttings will grow; and in winter it will be proper to protect them from the froft with mats in the like manner: After that they will require no further trouble until they are planted out.

This evergreen is fcarcely hardy enough to ftruggle with our feverest weather; whenever therefore it is introduced into plantations, it fhould always have the advantage of a dry foil and a well-fheltered fituation.

BUXUS.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Monoecia Tetrandria: Male flowers containing four stamens, and female flowers containing three piftils upon the fame plant. LINNEUS makes only one SPECIES of Buxus of this however there are feveral varieties; fome of which in their prefent ftate have every appearance of distinct fpecies:

*MILLAR fays, "The two forts of Tree Box have been frequently railed from feeds, and conftantly produced plants of the fame kind with thofe the feeds were taken from, and the Dwarf Box will never rife to any confiderable height with any culture." (Art. Buxus.)

1. The BROAD-LEAVED TREE-BOX: A tall evergreen shrub ; native of the fouthern parts of Europe, and, it is faid, of this ifland.

2. The NARROW-LEAVED TREE-BOX.

3. The Gold-ftriped Box.

4. The Silver-ftriped Box.

5. The Gold-edged Box.

6. The Curled-leaved Striped Box. 7. The DWARF Box.

1. The BROAD-LEAVED TREE-BOX. This we will confider as the TRUE BUXUS, and the reft as varieties. The Box-Tree will grow to the height of fifteen or twenty feet. The leaves are fmooth and fhining, and the branches of a yellowish hue. There is a fwelling foftness and a peculiar delicacy and richness in the general appearance of the Box, which, in winter more efpecially, affords the eye a delicious repaft. As an ornamental it stands first among the evergreens; and its fes are very many. Indeed, we know of no fhrub or tree whatever, the Oak, the Afh, the Elm, and the Beech excepted, fo deferving of the planter's notice as the Box. It will flourish upon barren foils and in bleak fituations where scarcely any other plant will thrive. The only extensive plantations of Box in this kingdom are thofe upon Box-Hill; and the foil there is a poor thin-skinned chalky loam, and the fituation high, unfheltered, and bleak in the extreme; yet the plants thrive with great luxuriance. The Box however is by no means partial to poor land and an open country; it thrives in every foil and in the closest fituations, being remarkably patient of the fhade and drip of other trees: we have seen it in a neglected grove, growing under a perfect canopy of foliage with the fame healthfulness and luxuriancy as if it had flood in the open air. This naturally points out a fituation and use proper for the Box, which does not seem to have been thought of: we mean that of UNDERWOOD TO THE OAK. Thus employed, what an admirable cover to game; and how friendly to the sportsman! what a delightful paffage in cultivated nature; and how profitable to the planter Box wood is now worth 16s. per cwt.

2. The NARROW-LEAVED TREE-BOX. plant there are fome fub-varieties, that

Of this beautiful differ in the fize

of

of their leaves; but it is the fimalleft-leaved fort that is here meant; and as this fort is not very common, it is valued on that account. It is rather of a lower growth than the former fort, and its branches are more flender and numerous. It forms itfelf naturally into a regular head, and the whole fhrub affumes an air of delicacy. The leaves grow oppofite by pairs, as in the other fort; but are produced in great plenty. They are very finall and narrow; and their furface is not fo fhining as the Broadleaved Box. As the branches and leaves are the only ornament these trees afford, nothing further need be added to the defcription of this fort.

3.4. The two forts with ftriped leaves are the Common TreeBox variegated; though they have a different appearance in their manner of growth, as well as in their striped leaves. They will grow indeed to be as tall; but the branches will be naturally more flender and weaker, and many of them will often hang downwards, which gives the tree a much different appearance from the plain Tree-Box, whose branches are naturally straight and upright. The leaves of these forts being beautifully striped, makes them coveted by those who are fond of variegated trees.

5. The Gold-edged Box is ftill the Tree-Box, in the fame natural upright growth. The branches of this are not fo weak as thofe of the former forts, but are upright and ftrong. Their bark is rather yellower than the green fort: in other refpects there is no difference, except that the leaves are tipped or edged with yellow; which is thought by many to be very ornamental to the fhrub.

6. The Curled-leaved Striped Box is fo called on account of its leaves being a little waved. This, together with the Narrowleaved, is the fcarceft of all the forts; and is indeed, like that, a very elegant fhrub. It is certainly a variety of the Common Tree-Box; but it seems rather of lower growth. Its leaves are waved; and they are variegated in fuch a manner as to cause the fhrub to have what HANBURY calls a luscious look. It makes a variety from all the other forts, and is truly beautiful and pleasing.

7. The DWARF Box is a plant fo well known as an edging to the borders of flower-gardens, that it needs no defcription. It may be planted as an evergreen fhrub among the lower forts.

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