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pots, which fliould be plunged into an old bed of 

 tanners bark, which has loft its heat, coverins; the 

 bed with glalFes, &c. to keep out froft ; this iliould 

 be done in December, if the feeds are good, and as 

 the fpring advances, the pots are refrcflied with water, 

 the plants will come up the beginning of April, v/hen 

 they fhould be frequently but fparingly watered, and 

 conltantly kept clean from weeds. 

 As tlie fummer advances, if the plants are lliaded in 

 the heat of the day, it will greatly promote their 



growtli i but in warm weather they muft be open all 

 night to receive the dew, fo fhould only be coyered 

 in the middle of the day : with this management, 

 the plants will rife to the height of five or fix inches 

 the firft fummer. The beginning of Odober, thefe 

 plants may beihaken out of the pots, and their roots 

 carefully feparated, planting them fingly in fmall pots 

 filled with light earth ; then plunge the pots into an 

 old bed of tanners bark, under a common frame, 

 obferving to fhade them from the fun in the middle 

 of the day, and to give them water as they may re- 

 quire : in this bed the pots fhould remain during the 

 winter, obferving to expofe the plants to the open 

 at all times when tlie weather is favourable ^ but 

 in frofty weather they muft be covered, otherwife 

 they will be in danger if the feafon proves fevere. 

 The fpring following the plants may be removed to 

 a very gentle hot-bed, which will require no other 

 covering but mats. This will enable them to make 

 ftrong ftioots early in the fummer, whereby they will 

 be in a better condition to bear the cold of the fuc- 

 ceeding winter : in this bed the plants may continue 

 moft part of the fummer, for if the pots are taken 

 out and fet upon the ground, the fmallnefs of their 

 fize will occafion the earth in them to dry fo fall, 

 that watering will fcarcely preferve the plants alive- 

 but if they are kept growing all the fummer, they 

 will be more than a foot high by the next autumn : 

 but it will be advifable to fcreen them from the froft 

 during their continuance in pots, by plunging them 

 into the ground in a warm place, and covering them 

 with mats in bad weather. 



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When the plants 



are grown to 



be two or three 



feet high, you may Ibake them out of the pots, and 

 plant them in the open ground in the places where 

 they are to remain ; but this fhould be done in April, 

 that they may have taken good root before the win- 

 ter, which would be apt to damage them if newly 

 planted -, and as all the earth about their roots may 

 be thus preferved, there will be no fear of fucceeding 

 at this feafon. 



Thefe plants are tolerably hardy, and are feldom hurt, 

 except in extreme hard winters, which many times 

 kill the young and tender branches, but rarely deftroy 

 the roots ; therefore, however dead they may 

 appear after a hard winter, yet I would advife the 

 letting them remain till the fucceeding fummer has 

 fulBciently demonftrated what are living and what are 



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ginnin- to appear-, and at that feafon. if it nioiiVl 

 prove very dry and they are kept moift, they will t-^ke 

 rout very foon; but toward the begi an in a of No- 

 vember, their roots fiiould be well covered widi mulch 

 to keep out the froft. ' 



The third fort grows naturally in Acadia, and other 

 nortliern parts ot America, upon fwampy land, wliicJi 

 IS frequently overflowed with water •, this is a low 

 bufliy Ihrub, with (lender trailing branches, which 

 are garnilhed with oval leaves, a little fawed on their 

 edges ; the flowers come out from the winos of the 

 leaves, growing in thin loofe bunches. The fruit of 

 this fort is never produced in England, and it is with 

 great difficulty the plants are kept alive here. 

 Hie fourth fort grows naturally on the Alps, and the 

 Helvetian mountains. This never riles high, but 

 fends out from the root many fiender branched, which 

 trail upon the ground, garnilhed with oblono- 

 rough leaves, ot a pale green colour-, the flowerl 

 are produced from the wings of the leaves, upon lono- 

 flender foot-llalks, and are fucceeded by berries about 

 the fize of the common black Cherry, which are firft 

 green, afterward red, and when ripe they are black. 

 Thefe are of a pleafant tafte, fo are frequendy eaten 

 by the inhabitants of thofe countries where they grow 

 naturally. This is alfo a very difficult plant to keep 

 ahvein gardens, for it is an inhabitant of bogs, 

 growing among mofs, where the ground is never dry. 

 The fifth fort grows naturally upon the mountains in 

 Spain, and in moft of the northern parts of Eu-ope. 

 The branches of this trail on the ground, which are 

 clofely garniffied with fmooth thick leaves of an oval 

 form, placed alternately ; the flowers are produced 

 in fmall bunches toward the extremity of the branches, 

 which are fhapcd like thofe of the common fort, but 

 are fmaller ; and are fucceeded by berries, of the fame 



fize with thofe of the former fort, which are red when 

 ripe. 



There are few of thefe plants in the Englilh gardens, 

 for as they are inhabitants of very cold countries, 

 where they are covered with fnow all the winter, and 

 growing upon bogs among mofs, fo when they are 

 brought into a garden, they feldom condnue long, 

 nor do they thrive with the utmoft care ; for in places 

 where artificial bogs have been contrived to receive 

 thefe plants, they have been preferved tv/o or three 

 years,- and then have periftied -, fo that unlefs the 

 place where they are planted is naturally boggy, there 

 is litde hopes of their fucceeding long. 

 The fixth fort grows naturally upon Mount Cenis 

 in Italy, and upon fome mountains in Spain ; this 

 hath woody ftalks which rife two or three feet hi'T-ii, 

 dividing into many difFufed branches, clofely garnilhed 

 with roundifh fiefliy leaves, which are indented at the 

 top ; the flowers are produced in a racemus toward 

 the end of the branches, which are fhaped like thofe 

 of the Strawberry-tree, of an herbaceous colour, ftrip- 

 ed with purple. The plants of this kind are very 

 rare in England, nor is this fort much known among 

 botanifts, moft of whom have fuppofed the fifth to 

 be the fort mentioned by Clufius, in which they 

 are greatly miftaken'. 



The Adrachne is at prefent ver)' rare in England ; 

 this may be propagated in the fame manner as hath 

 been direfted for the common Arbutus, but as there 



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gave us great reafon to believe moft of the trees of 

 this kind were deftroyed ; and many people were fo 

 haft)% as to dig up or cut down, many of their trees; 

 whereas all thofe people who had patience to let them 

 remain, found that fcarce one in five hundred failed 

 to come out again the next fummer, and many of 

 them made handfonie plants that feafon. 

 This tree delights in a moift foil, for when they are 

 planted in dry ground, they feldom produce much 

 fruit : the flowers of this tree being produced in au- 

 tumn, if the winter proves fevere, are generally de- 

 ftro)ed, wliich has occafioned dieir producing very 

 little fruit in England for feveral years : therefore, 

 m order to obtain fruit, the trees fliould be placed in 

 a warm fituation ; and where the ground is not natu- 

 rally moift, there fliould be a good quandty of loam 

 and rotten neat's dung laid about their roots -, and if 

 the Ipnng fliould prove dry, they muft be plentifully 

 watered, in order to have plenty of fruit. 



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!o in bLptember, at wh:ch time the bloflbms are be- R. H. Burdock. 



are no plants in this country which produce fruit at 

 prefent, the feeds m.uft be procured from the Levant, 

 where they may be had in plenty. As the leaves of 

 this tree are larger than thofe of^ the common Arbu- 

 tus, the trees make a finer appearance, therefore de- 

 ferve our care to cultivate them, efpecially as tliey 

 will bear the open air when the plants are become 

 woody ; for while they are young, they are impati- 

 ent of much froft, therefore fliould be preferved in 

 pots three or four years, till they have obtained 

 llrength, and may then be planted in a warm fitua- 

 tion and on a dry foil, for this fort will not thrive in 

 wet ground." 



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