The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-05-02

are yellow and appear IN June and jury
The Pond Lily, [Nymphea odoratal is one of our most
hmG, aouatics bearing white flower three inches
in diameter very fragrant, and resembling rose in its mum
n METALS The leaves are circular, eight nine inches
across and float together with the flowers the surface of
the water grows in the bitches ST. Georges, and per-
hans in those of the Christiana
The Egyptian Bean, [Cyamus iuteus] is also an aquatic
pant which cannot forbear noticing though it does not
ow in our immediate neghbohood 1t has been Justly call
led the Queen of North American Flowers The leaves are
ecy round from twelve eighteen inches in diameter,
ppored BY their upon oosaks three feet or
onc The flower pale yellow three or four inches in dame
fer with many petals like the Pond iy and the flower-salk
is ward long grows in the neck nea. Philadelphia, and
il more frequent in the Southern and Western states The
n resemble acons in FORM and eaabe This flower is
the largest in North America except that of the Magnolia
o,ooba of North Carolina, which said to be fourteen
inches in diameter The leaf of this Magnolia sometimes
reaches length of three feet J.,pes.x
The only other plant that will add y list the Witch
hazle [Hanamelis Vuginano] shrub celebrated in the
annals Wic-cra whose yellow flowers appear after has
sed lis leaves in Autumn and remain through the greater
part Of the Winter apparently unaffected BY the cold The
branches of this small furnished the diyinng rods former
~ used in the finding of precious ores and said they
still used nv some mpostors Virginia, means Of finding
water grows moist places, ten or twelve iee high and
flowers in October and November, though the fruit
tmed until September of the ensuing year!
II is with regret am competed 70 pass ny IN slehce our
numerous ornamental and useful forest Trees brief consde
ration of which was comprised in the original design Of this
assay They would form of themselves fiji subject for pa
per of this kind we'll deserving of close attention The gras
SEES which are said form fifth part of the vegetable
world must also be left unnoticed few remarks connected
with the study of Botany will close my humble task.
The question is sometimes asked, Of what Importance the
knowledge of our science further than amusement
In answer to this few instances only will be necessary OF
tho
tiles of certain plants Thus among the mbclerons plants
(Which nearly all of the 9Th class and I'd order OF Lin
nWus those which grow dry ground are almost uniformly
aromatic; whilst the aquatic species are amongst the most
deadly of posons Coriander and Fenne examples of the
former and Common and Water Hemock of the latter The
plants of the Tetradynama, characterized by the flower
having -four long samens and two short acd TO the
taste account the essential oil they contains such
mustard pepper-grass, &c plant whose cayx OF the
kind peculiar to the grasses with valves three samens
ponta and naked seed may be relied on MS atord
seeds of fanacous and nutritious quality wheat, rye,
oats SC. The fruit that succeeds flower whose stamens
inserted into the cayx, may be eaten with perfect safety
Whereas, whose flower has five ponta one
petal and whose fruit berry, surely poisonous The APP
pe crant strawberry to the first and the several
species of nghshade the last of these descriptions
Botanical nomenclature presents difficulty to the beginner
which first appalling II that Botany, like every
other has its peculiar languages and has every
esson-every branch of mechanical labor But with knowl
edge of hundred of the most frequent erm the student
may very readily investigate many common plants 10 re-
member the names of the different plants certainly tax