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p, BiGNONiA {Leiicoxylon) foliis digitatis foliolis integer- 

 rimis ovatis acuminatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 870. Bigno- 

 nia with fingered leaves^ whofe lobes are oval, pointed, 

 and entire, Leucoxylon arbor filiquofa; quinis foliis, 

 fioribus Nerii, alato femine. Pluk. Aim. 215. tab. 

 200. f. 4. commonly called in America ^Tidip Flower. 



io. BiGNONiA {Paniculata) foliis conjugatis cirrhofis, 

 foiiolis cordato-ovatis, fioribus racemofo-paniculatis. 

 Lin. Sp. Plant. 623. Bignonia with conjugated leaves, 

 having tendrils, theiobes oval and heart-ftjaped, and flow- 

 ers in branching panicles. Bignonia bifolia fcandens, 

 fiore violaceo odoro,fru6tu ovatoduro. Plum. Cat. 5. 



J I. Bignonia [Carulea) foliis bipinnatis foliolis lanceo- 

 latis intcgris. Lin. Sp. Plant. 625. Bignonia with dou- 

 ble winged leaves, which are entire and fpear-Jhaped. Ar- 



bor Guajaci latiore folio, Bignoni^e flore cseruleo. 



frudu duro in duas partes diffilicnte feminibus alatis 

 imbricatim pofitis. Catefb. Carol, i. p. 42. 

 '\^. Bignonia (Crucigera) foliis conjugatis cirrhofis fo- 

 Jiolis cordatis. Vir. Cliff. 60. Bignonia with conjugated 

 hcart-Jloaped leaves, having tendrils, andaftalk havi?ig ten- 

 drils. PfeudoApocynumfolliculis maximis obtufis femi- 

 nibus ampliffimisalismembranaceis. Mor.Hift.3.p. 62. 



13. Bignonia {Capreolata) foliis conjugatis cirrhofis fo- 

 liolis cordaco-lanceolatis, foliis imis limplicibus. Lin. 

 Sp. 870. Bignonia with conjugated heart-Jhapcd leaves, 

 having tendrils, whofe lower leaves are Jingle, growing 

 in panicles, and long comprejfed pods. 



14. Bignonia {jTriphylla) foliis ternatis glabris, foliolis 

 ovads acuminatis, caule fruticofo ercdo. Lin. Sp. 

 870. Smooth three-leaved Bignonia, with oval lobes end- 

 ing in a point, and a firubby JtalL Bignonia frutefcens 

 tri'phylla glabra, filiquis longis compreflls. Houfi:. 



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The firft fort grows naturally in Virginia and Ca- 

 nada. It hath large rough ilcms, which fend out 

 " many trailing branches, putting out roots at their 

 joints, which fafi:en themfelves to the trees in their 

 natural places of growth, whereby they climb to a 

 o-reat height ; and in Europe, where they are gene- 

 rally planted againfl: walls, they faften themfelves 

 thereto by their roots, which fl:rike into the ' mortar 

 of the joints fo ftrongly, as to fupport their branches, 

 and v/ill rife to the height of forty or fifty feet. The 

 branches are garniflied with winged leaves at every 

 joint, placed oppofite, cpmpofed of four pair of fmall 

 leaves, terminated by an odd one -, theie are fawcd 

 on tlieir edges, and end in a long fi^arp point. The 

 flowers are produced at the ends of the fl:ioots of the 

 fame year, in large bunches -, thefe have long fwell- 

 ing tubes, fi^aped fomewhat like a trumpet^ from 



whence it had the appellation of TKimpet Flower. 

 They are of an Orange colour, and appear the be- 

 ginning of Auguft. 

 This fort is very hardy, fo will thrive in the open 



■ air-, but as the branches trail, they mufl: be fupport- 

 ed, therefore are ufually planted againfl; walls or build- 

 ings, where, if the branches have room, they will 

 fpread to a great diftance, and rife very high, fo are 

 very proper for covering of buildings, which are un- 

 fightly. They may alio be trained up againfl: the 

 ftems of trees, where they may be fo managed, as to 

 make a fine appearance when they are in flower. 

 This is propagated by feeds, but the young plants fo 

 raifed do not flower in lefs than feven or eight years •, 

 therefore thofe which are propagated by cuttings or 

 layers from flowering plants, are mofl: eileemed, be- 

 caufe they will flower in two or three years after 

 planting. The old plants alfo fend out many fuck- 

 ers from the roots, which may be taken off, and 

 tranfplanted where they are to remain, for thefe plants 



. will not tranfplant fafely if they are old. 

 The neceffary culture for thefe plants after they are 

 eflrabliflied, is to cut away all the fmall weak fhoots 



' of the former year in winter, and fliorten the ll:rong 

 ones to about two feet long, that young flioots may 

 be obtained for flowering the following fummer ■, thefe 

 plants are of long duration. There are fome in gar- 

 dens 'which have been planted more than fixty years, 

 which are now very vigorous, and produce flowers in 

 'plenty every feafon. 



If the plants are propagat'cd by feeds, tliey fliould be 

 fown upon a moderate hot-bed to bring them up, 

 which fliould be foon inured to the open air, to pre- 



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nd the firfi: win- 



on their edges. 



Vent their being drawn up weaic ; 

 ter thefe young plants fliould be fcreened from hard 

 frofl:, which will kill their tender ftioots -, but the 

 fpring following they may be planted in the full 

 ground, in a nurfery-bed, at a foot difl:ance from each 

 other, where they may remain one or two years to <^et 

 fl:rength, and afterwards be planted where they are 

 defigned to grow. 



The fecond fort was brought into England by Mr. 

 Catefby, about forty years pafl:, who found it grow- 

 ing naturally on the back of South Carolina, at a 

 great difl;ance from the Englifli fettlements. It is 

 ^now very plenty in the Englilh gardens, efpecially 

 near London, where there are fome of them near 

 twenty feet; high^ with large fl;ems, and have the ap- 

 pearance of trees. 



This fort rifes with ah upright Hem, covered with a 

 fmooth brown baric, and fends out many fl:rong la- 

 teral branches, garniflied with very large heart-fliaped 

 leaves, placed oppofite at eveiy joint. The flowers 

 are produced in large branching panicles toward the 

 end of the branches, of a dirty white colour, with 

 a few purple fpots, and faint ftripes of yellow on their 

 infide. The tube of the flower is much fliorter, and 

 the upper part more expanded, than thofe of the for- 

 mer fort, and the fegments deeper cut, and waved 



The flowers are in America fuc- 

 ceeded by very long taper pods, filled with flat winged 

 feeds, lying over each other like the fcales of fifii. 

 In England there has not as yet been any of the pods 

 produced, but the feeds are annually brought over 

 from South Carolina. Thefe fliould be fown in pots, 

 and plunged into a moderate hot-bed to bring up the 

 plants, which ftiouid be inured to the open air by 

 degrees ; and, in the beginning of June, placed abroad 

 in a flickered fituation till autumn, ^vhen they fliould 

 be placed under a common frame to fcreen them 

 from frofl: in winter ^ but in mild weather they mufl: 

 be fully expofed to the open air. The following 

 fpring thefe may be taken out of the pots, and planted 

 in a nurfery-bed, in a warm fituation, where they 

 may remain two years to get fl:rength, and afterwards 

 planted in the places where they are defigned to re- 

 main. Thefe plants, when young, are frequently in- 

 jured by frofl:, for they flioot pretty late in the au- 

 tumn, fo that the eariy frofts often kill the extremity 

 of their branches -, but as the plants advance in 

 fl:rength, they become more hardy, and are feldom 

 injured but in very fevere winters. It is late in the 

 fpring before thefe trees come out, which has often 

 caufed perfons to believe they were* dead •, and fome 

 have been ^o imprudent, as to cut them down on that 

 fuppofition, before the tree v/as well known. 

 It may alfo be propapated by cuttings, which fliould 

 be planted in pots in the fpring before the trees begin 

 to pufti out their fnoots, and plunged into a moderate 

 hot-bed, obferving to fliade them from the fun in the 

 middle of the day, and refrefli them occafionally with , 

 water, which muft not be given to them in too great 

 plenty. In about fix weeks thefe will have taken 

 root, and made flboots above, fo fliould have plenty 

 of air admitted to them confliantly, and hardened by 

 ■ degrees to bear the open air, into which they fliould 

 be removed, and treated in the fame manner as the 

 feedling plants, and the fpring following planted out ^ 

 into a nurfery-bed, as is before direfted. 

 As thefe trees have very large leaves, they require a 

 flickered fituation -, for where they are much expolcd 

 to ftrong winds, their leaves are often torn anti ren- 

 dered unfightly, and many times their branches are 

 fplit and broken by the winds, their leaves being fo 

 large, as that the wind has great force againfl- them. 

 Thefe produce their flowers in Augufl:. They de- 

 light in a light moifl: foil, where they make great pro- 

 grefs, and in a few years will produce flowers. It 

 is generally known in the gardens by the Indian title 

 of Catolpa. 



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