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flowers and the fruit, though the flowers are inferior to the others. Neither is this tree fo proper to plant fingly in open places, or near windows, for the fhow of its flowers; for although they come out early, yet the whole bloom is fubject to be taken off in one night's nipping weather, which frequently happens at this feafon. Its ftation, therefore, fhould be in fhrubbery-quarters, in well-fheltered places; and in fuch it will flower exceeding well, and fhew its white bloffoms to great advantage. When it is defigned for fruit, it should be set against a south wall, in a well-fheltered place, otherwife there will be little hopes of fuccefs.

2. The DWARF ALMOND. Of this tree there are two forts, the fingle and the double. Both grow to about four or five feet high, and are in the first esteem as flowering-fhrubs. The fingle fort has its beauties; but the double kind is matchlefs. In both, the flowers are arranged the whole length of the last year's fhoots; their colour is a delicate red; and they fhew themselves early in the fpring, which ftill enhances their value.

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3. The PEACH-TREE has hitherto been planted against walls for the fake of the fruit; but, fays HANBURY, as I hardly ever knew a person who was not struck with the beauty of the flowers when in full blow against a wall, why should it not have a share in wilderness-quarters and fhrubberies, amongst the forts of almonds, &c.? It may be kept down, or permitted to grow to the height of the owner's fancy; and the flowers are inferior to none of the other forts. Add to this, they frequently, in well-fheltered places, produce fruit which will be exceedingly well-flavoured; and thus the owner may enjoy the benefit of a double treat. The above obfervations refpect the single peach; with regard to the double-flowered, it is generally propagated for ornamental plantations, and is univerfally acknowledged to be one of the finest flowering-trees yet known. Against a wall, however, these trees are always the fairest; and if they have this advantage, they are fucceeded by very good fruit.

All these forts are PROPAGATED by inoculating them into plum-stocks, in Auguft. The stocks fhould be firft planted in the nursery, when of the size of a straw, and the first or second fummer after they will be ready to receive the bud. The usual

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method of inoculation must be observed, and there is no danger of fuccefs; though it may be proper to observe, that the doublebioffomed peach fhould always be worked into the flocks of the muffel-plum. The two forts of Dwarf Almond may also be propagated by layers, or from the fuckers, which they fometimes fend forth in great plenty.

A NAGYRI S.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Decandria Monogynia: Each flower contains ten males and one female. There is only one SPECIES:

ANAGYRIS Fætida: The FETID ANAGYRIS, or Stinking Bean Trefoil; a deciduous fhrub; native of Italy, Sicily, and Spain.

THE ANAGYRIS is a fhrub of about ten feet growth. The leaves are different in the different varieties: In one fort they are oval, and moderately broad; in the other they are oblong and narrow; but all of them are hoary. The flowers are produced from the fides of the branches, in May, like thofe of the Laburnum: They are numerous, of a bright yellow colour, but feldom fucceeded by good feeds in these parts.

The best method of PROPAGATING thefe plants is, ift, by the feeds, which should be procured from the countries where they ripen well. Sow them in a border of good rich earth, in a well-fheltered place, and fift over them about half an inch of fine mould. March is a very good month for this business; and when the plants appear, if the weather proves dry, frequently give them water; keep them clean of weeds all fummer, and at the approach of winter prick round the beds fome furze-bushes very close: These will break the keen edges of the black winds; for common frosts these plants bear moderately well. In the spring let them be fet out in the nursery-ground, at a foot diftance from each other. Here let them stand a year or two, and they will be of a proper fize to be finally planted out. 2. These plants may also be propagated by layers. For this purpose, a

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few plants should be fet for stools. Let them grow one fummer, to get good hold of the ground, and then head them down. The fummer following they will make ftrong fhoots,, which in the autumn fhould be layered. They will readily strike root, and by the autumn following will be good plants. The weakest of these may be set out in the nursery-ground for a season or two; but the strongest may be immediately planted out.

ANDROME D A.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Decandria Monogynia: Each

flower contains ten males and one female. There are fifteen SPECIES; three only of which are yet enured to this climate;

1. ANDROMEDA Paniculata : The VIRGINIAN ANDROMEDA ; a deciduous fhrub; native of Virginia.

2. ANDROMEDA Calyculata: The CANADIAN ANDROMEDA; a low deciduous forub; native of Canada, Siberia and Ingria. 3. ANDROMEDA Mariana: The MARYLAND ANDROMEDA; very low deciduous fhrub; native of Maryland and other parts of North America.

1. The VIRGINIAN ANDROMEDA is a branching shrub, about four feet high. The leaves are oblong, pointed, plane, and are placed alternately on the branches. The flowers come out in panicles from the ends of the branches: They are of a pale yellow colour, and come out in July, but are rarely fucceeded by good feeds in England.

2. CANADA ANDROMEDA is a low branching fhrub, hardly a foot and a half high. The leaves are oval, fpear-shaped, obtufe, reclined on their borders, and poffeffed of numerous fmall punctures. The flowers grow in fhort leafy fpikes, from the ends of the branches: Their colour is white, they appear in July, and are feldom fucceeded by good feeds in this country. There is a variety of this fpecies, with oval obtufe leaves, of a thick fubftance, and which, in mild feafons, continue on the plants all winter.

3. MARYLAND ANDROMEDA. This is a fhrub, about two feet high, fending forth feveral ligneous ftalks from the root. The leaves are oval, entire, of a pale green colour, and grow alternately on fhort footftalks. The flowers come out in fmall bunches from the points of the stalk: They are of a greenish colour, come out in June and July, and are fometimes fucceeded by five-cornered capfules, full of feeds; which, nevertheless, feldom ripen in England.

PROPAGATION: Thefe plants fucceed beft upon boggy and moift grounds. You must procure the feeds from the places where they grow naturally; a year before which a boggy or the moisteft part of your garden fhould be dug, and the roots of all weeds cleared off. As the weeds begin to rife, so constantly fhould the ground be again dug, and fea or drift fand fhould be plentifully mixed with the natural foil. By this management till the feeds arrive, the ground being made tolerably fine, the feeds fhould be fown very fhallow in the moift or boggy land; or if the land fhould be fo boggy that it cannot be easily worked, fo as to be proper for the reception of the feeds, then let a fufficient quantity of foil from a fresh pafture, mixed with drift fand, be laid over the bog, and let the feeds be sown therein. The bog will in time abforb this foil, but the feeds will come up; and this is the most effectual method of procuring plants of this kind from feeds. The first year after they come up they fhould be shaded in very hot weather; and after that they will require little or no care. Another method of encreasing these fhrubs is by layers, or fuckers; fo that whoever has not the conveniency of procuring the feeds from abroad, fhould get a Plant or two of the forts he most likes: Thefe he should plant in a boggy fituation; and in a very little time he will have encrease enough; for they throw out fuckers in prodigious plenty, and, if they like the fituation, to a great distance. These may be taken off, and planted where they are to remain.

ANNON A.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Polyandria Polygynia: Each flower contains many males and many females: There are nine species;

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one only of which is fufficiently hardy for the open air of this climate.

ANNONA Triloba: The PAPAW or CUSTARD-APPLE; a tall' brub; native of the Weft-Indies.

The PAPAW grows to about fixteen or eighteen feet high. The leaves are large, and fhaped like a fpear, and they fall off pretty early in the autumn. The flowers, which will fhew themselves in the beginning of May, are of a kind of chocolate colour tinged with purple, and grow two or three on a footftalk. The fruit is large, and never ripens in England; but in the countries. where it grows naturally, it is eaten by the meanest of the inhabitants. The difference of its fhape from that of a pear is, that its widest part is nearest the footstalk; and it contains a number of large feeds lying in a row. It is a native of Maryland, Carolina, Virginia, and the Bahama-Iflands; and from thence we have the feeds brought, by which numbers of plants are annually raised,

The manner of RAISING them is thus: Let a bed be prepar ed in a moitish part, that is exceedingly well fheltered, and na turally fandy, or inclined thereto. If the foil is oppofite to this, let a fourth part of drift fand be mixed with the mould; and having obtained the feeds from abroad, fow them in this bed about half an inch deep, letting the feeds be at fome distance from each other. It is probable they will come up in the fpring, though they fometimes remain till the fecond, nay the third spring before they make their appearance. When this happens, the beds must be weeded all the time, and the mould at the furface gently loofened, if it should be inclined to cruft over. After the plants are come up in the spring, no other than the ufual care of feedlings need be taken, until the autumn, when the beds must be hooped over, to be covered with mats at the approach of any froft; and the gardener muft conftantly obferve the weather, whether the air hath the least tendency to it, that he may cover the bed over; for one night's hard froft, while they are fo very young, would destroy them all. With this careful eye he must conftantly watch over thefe plants all winter. He must double his covering as the froft encreases, and muft always uncover them again in mild and open weather. The fecond winter, the fame care must be observed, though so strict an eye will not be neceffary; for although they will be fubject to