will be loft; fince they are difficult plants to make grow. After the hotbed has forced the feeds into a state of vegetation, the pots may be taken out, and plunged up to the rims in fome natural mould, to keep them cool and moift; and here they may stand for two or three years, or longer, if the pots are large enough, without ever removing or fheltering in winter; for they are hardy enough to refift our feverest cold. When they are to be finally fet out, all the mould may be turned out of the pots hanging to the roots; and having proper holes made ready, they may be planted in them, and the plant will be igno rant of its new fituation.

These plants may be encreased by cuttings, which must be planted in pots, and have the benefit of a good bark-bed; in which being constantly shaded and duly watered, many of them will grow. As the plants raised this way will be rather tender by being forced in the bark-bed, it will be neceffary to remove them into the greenhoufe, or to place them under an hotbed-frame during the first winter; and after that, the pots may be fet up to the rims in the ground, and, like the layers, the plants may be turned out at a convenient time into the places where they are to remain.

Next we proceed to the best way of raifing the Common Arbutus; and that is from feeds. Let these be taken from the ob. long or round-fruited fort. The feeds, which will be ripe fome time in November or the beginning of December, for they will not be ripe at the fame time in all places, must be then gathered; and as they should not be fowed until the fpring, it will be proper to put them into a pot or jar, mixing with them a quantity of drift-fand; and this will preferve them found and good. The beginning of March is the best time for fowing the feeds; and the beft foil for them is maiden earth, taken from a rich pasture. at leaft a year before, with the fward; and this, by conftant turning, being well rotted and mixed, will be ready to receive them. Having filled a different quantity of pots with this fine mould, let the feeds be fown, and but just covered, fcarcely a quarter of an inch deep. A dry day should be chofen for the bufinefs; and no watering by the hand fhould be given them, as it will endanger the fetting the mould hard in the pots. Leave them abroad until some rain falls, which at that time may be hourly expected; and after that, having an hotbed ready,

plunge

plunge the pots therein. In lefs than fix weeks you may expect
your plants to appear; when much air fhould be afforded them,
and frequent waterings, in fmall quantities, gently sprinkled
over them. After this, they may be hardened to the air by de-
grees, and the fet
pots up to the rims in the natural mould, in a
fhady place. In October they should be removed into the green-
house, or fome fhelter, in frofty weather; though they should
always be fet abroad in mild open weather. In the spring they
may be shook out, and planted in feparate pots; and they
should have the advantage also of a hotbed to fet them a-grow-
ing their future management may be the fame as was directed
for the layers. When these trees are to be planted out, very
little regard need be paid to the foil or fituation; for they will
grow almost any where, and refift our fevereft northern blafts.
One thing, however, the gardener must conftantly obferve, in
order to continue his trees in their beauty; viz. as often as a
heavy fnow falls, fo conftantly fhould he go and shake the
boughs; for it will lodge amongst the leaves and branches, in
fuch great quantity, as to weigh down and fplit the largest
branches; the deformity of which afterwards may be easily con-
ceived. Befides, many years muft expire before the tree will,
if ever it fhould, grow to its former beauty; to preferve this,
therefore, makes the narrowly watching thefe trees in fnowy
weather highly neceffary.

2. The ANDRACHNE will grow to a larger fize than the Arbutus. The leaves are fmooth, and nearly of the fame figure as the preceding fort; though they are larger, and have their edges undivided. The flowers grow like the other forts; are of the fame colour; and they are fucceeded by large, oval, fearlet fruit. It is called the Oriental Strawberry-Tree, becaufe this fort grows plentifully in many parts of the Eaft, and is useful to the inhabitants for many purpofes in life.

The Andrachne may be PROPAGATED in the fame manner as the Arbutus,

ARTEMISIA.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Syngenefia Polygamia 'Superflua : Hermaphrodite florets containing five males and one female, and

female

female florets containing one piftil, in the fame discous flower: There are twenty-five SPECIES, which are principally her baceous; one only being intitled to a place amongst the tribe of ornamentals.

ARTEMISIA Arborescens: The TREE-WORMWOOD: a nondeciduous fhrub: native of Italy and the East.

The TREE-WORMWOOD rifes with an upright stalk to the height of about fix feet. The leaves are its chief excellence, and of these there are two or three forts: One fort is very much divided, or cut into feveral narrow fegments; thofe of the other are broader. They are very hoary; and as they continue on the branches all winter, they have a fingular and an agreeable effect among the evergreens at that feafon. The flowers are fmall, and have very little beauty; they are collected into roundish heads, and I never perceived them to be followed by good feeds.

This plant is eafily PROPAGATED by cuttings. Plant them in May, June, July or Auguft, in a fhady place, and they will readily grow, especially if they are watered a few times at the first planting. In the autumn these cuttings, which will then have become good plants, fhould be each fet in a feparate small pot, and placed under a hotbed frame, or in the greenhouse, to be preferved all winter. In the fpring they may be turned out into the places where they are defigned to remain, which must be naturally warm and well fheltered, or they will be liable to be destroyed by the feverity of the following winter. In such a fituation they will live for many years; though it may be advifeable to keep a plant or two in the greenhouse, to keep up the stock, if a more than common hard winter should put a period to thofe that are planted abroad.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Polygamia Monoecia: Hermaphrodite flowers containing five males and one female, and fe

male

male flowers containing one piftil, on the fame plant. There are twelve SPECIES; two only of which are to our purpose.

1. ATRIPLEX Halimus: BROAD-LEAVED SEA PURSLAINTREE: a non-deciduous fhrub; grows naturally upon the seacoast of Spain and Portugal; as alfo in Virginia.

2. ATRIPLEX Portulacoides: NARROW-LEAVED SEA-PUR. BLAIN-TREE; a non-deciduous fhrub; native of our own feacoaft, and of the North of Europe.

1. The BROAD-LEAVED PURSLAIN-TREE generally grows to about five or fix feet; and will fend forth its branches fo as to fpread around, and form a large broad head. The young branches are covered with a smooth white bark; that of the older is of a light grey colour, which will be peeling lengthways, and falling, efpecially in the fpring. The branches are exceedingly brittle, and their infide is green to the very pith, of which there is very little. The leaves are foft, white, and filvery, and nearly of the fhape of the Greek letter Delta. They have their edges entire; and look well at all times, especially in winter, when they cause as great a variety as poffible among thofe trees that retain their leaves at that time. This fhrub feldom flowers in our gardens; and when that happens, it is poffeffed of no beauty to recommend it to the florist.

grey;

2. The NARROW-LEAVED PURSLAIN-TREE commonly grows to about four feet high. The branches are numerous and and they naturally spread abroad in a bushy manner. The leaves are filvery; though not fo white as the other fort; but they are narrower, which occafions its being so distinguished; and of an oval figure; and by them the fhrub receives no fmall ornament. The flowers have little beauty.

These shrubs are PROPAGATED by cuttings; which will grow, if planted at any time of the year; though the best way is to take the cuttings in March, of the strongest former fummer's fhoots, to cut them into lengths about a foot each, and to plant them a third part deep in the mould. Thefe will all readily take root, and be good plants by the autumn following. In fummer, flips and cuttings may be planted; but then it will be advifeable to plant them pretty close together in beds, and afterwards to hoop the beds, and fhade them from the heat at

that

that time. They will foon take root; and after that will require no further trouble: But until that is effected, they should be watered and shaded in the hot weather, and the mats fhould be conftantly taken off in the evening, and alfo in rainy, moist, or cloudy weather; and by this means plenty of plants may be raised. If it happened to be a dripping day when they were firft planted, much trouble in fhading and watering will be faved, as they may be nearly upon ftriking root before the weather clears up. These shrubs fhould be always raised at a distance from farm-yards, barns, &c. where there are sparrows; for these birds are fo exceedingly fond of the leaves, that when once they find them out, they will never leave nor forsake them until they have entirely ftripped the plants; and though the fhrub will fhoot out afresh, yet they will as conftantly repair to their repast, and will thus continue to prey upon them until they have entirely destroyed them. I am obliged (continues HANBURY) to give this precaution, because all my plants of these forts are thus conftantly eat up by the fparrows in my gardens at Church-Langton, as often as I plant them; fo that I am obliged to keep them at Gumley, and in my other diftant nurseries, where they remain free from fuch devourers.

These plants require a warm sheltered fituation, being subject to be cut by the early frosts.

AZAL E A.

LINNEAN Clafs and Order, Pentandria Monogynia: Each flower contains five males and one female. There are fix SPECIES; two of which are proper for the fhrubbery.

AZALEA Nudiflora: The RED AMERICAN UPRIGHT HONEYSUCKLE: or the RED AZALEA; a deciduous fhrub; native of Virginia.

AZALEA Vifcofa: The WHITE AMERICAN UPRIGHT HONEYSUCKLE; or The WHITE AZALEA ; a low deciduous shrub ; native of Virginia.

1. The RED AZALEA has several stems arifing from the fame root, which will grow to seven or eight feet high. The leaves

are