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will greatly promote their taking new root j however, | which are raifed from feeds ; fo that when thefe ca" 



be procured, it is much the better method, but the 



you mult carefully defend them from the great heat 



• of the fun, which is injurious to them when frelli re- 

 moved i but when they have taken root, you may ex- 

 pofe them by degrees to the open air. If you fuffer 

 the pots to remain plunged all the fummer, it will 

 preferve the earth therein from drying fo faft as it 

 would do, if they were fet upon the ground. 

 In Oftober you fhould again remove thefe plants into 

 flicker, or eli'e plunge their pots into the ground un- 

 der a warm hedge, where they may be protedted from 



' the cold north and eaft winds ; and in the fpring fol- 

 lowing- you muft fhift the plants into pots a fize larger, 

 takin^y away fome of the earth from the outfide of the 

 ball, and adding fome frefh, which will promote their 

 growth ; and fo continue to manage them as was be- 

 fore directed, until you plant them out in the places 

 where they are defigned to remain ; which (hould not 

 be done till they are four or five years old, by which 

 time they will be flrong enough to bear the cold of 

 our common winters. 



The reafon for my direfling thefe plants to be pre- 

 fcrved in pots until they are planted out for good is, 

 becaufe they are difficult to tranlplant, and being 

 tender will require fome Ihelter while young j and 

 whoever obferves the method here laid down, will 

 find the plants fo managed to gain two years growth 

 in fix, from thofe raifed in the open air, and be in 



, lefs danger of being deftroyed ; and as the trouble 

 and expence in raifing them this way is not great, fo 

 it is worth practifing, fmcc in a few years the trees 

 will recompenfe the trouble. 



The timber of this tree is of a reddifh colour, and 

 very fweet, and is commonly known in England by 

 the name of Cedar Wood j though there are divers 

 forts of wood called by that name, which come from 

 very different trees, efpecially in the Weft-Indies, 

 where there are feveral trees of vallly different ap- 

 pearances and genera, which have that appellation : 

 it is this wood which is ufed for pencils, as alfo to 

 wainfcot rooms, and make ftair-cafes, it enduring 



- longer found than moft other forts of timber, which, 



to fome extreme bitter tafte 



• p^haps, may be owin 

 in the refin, with whic 



the tree abounds ; for it is 



very remarkable, that the worms do not eat the bot- 

 toms of the veffels built with this wood, as they do 

 thofe built with Oak ; fo that tlie velfels built with 

 Cedar are much preferable to thofe built with ^py 



Weft 



feas, but they are not fit for fhips of war, the wood 



being fo brittle as to fplit to pieces with a cannpn 

 ball, , ; 



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The Jamaica Juniper is more impatient of cpld than 

 the Bermudas, fo will not live through the winter Jn 

 the open air in England, and the plants muft be pre- 

 served in pots and houfed in the winter j this is pro- 

 pagated by feeds, in the fame way as the Bermuda^ 

 Cedar -, but if the pots are plunged into a mod?r#ite 

 . hot-bed the fecond fpring aftpr tlie feeds are fown, it 

 will bring up the plants fooner, and tKey will have 

 mpre time to get ftrength before winter. 



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/VU the other forts are hardy enough to live in the 

 open air, fo are very well worth propagating, as they 

 will add to the variety- of Evergreen plantations 5 jCome 

 of the forts will rife to a very confiderable K^ightj^ fo* 

 niay prove to be u'feful timber, and may te 

 to fuch foils as will not fuit 'many other trees. 

 The (;ommon Savin ftiould not be negleded, becaufe 

 it is fo very hardy as never to be injured by the feyereft 

 froft i and as this fpreads its branches near the ground. 



woods 



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the nakednefs of the ground from fight. 

 All thefe forts are propagated by their feeds, which 

 inay be fown in the fame way as the common Juniper, 

 and the plants afterward fo managed j and moft of the 

 forts may be propagated by cuttings, which, if planted 

 m autumn in a Ihady border will take root ; but 

 thofe plants which are raifed from cuttings will never 

 grow fo upright, nor to fo large a fize as the plants 



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Other is frequently praftifed on thofe forts which do 

 not perfect their feeds in England. 

 As feveral of thefe forts grow to the height of eiglitcen 

 or twenty feet, the procuring as many of the forts as 

 can be gotten from the countries of their growth, will 

 be adding to the variety of our Evergreen plantations, 

 which cannot be too much propagated in England^ 

 where, in general, our winters are temperate enou(>h 

 for them to thrive to advantage ^ and as the forts 

 which are a little more tender than the others obtatn 

 ftrength, they will be in lefs danger of fufFcring by 

 fevere winters, as we find by many other plants, which 

 were fo tender as not to live in the open air at firft, 

 but now defy the fevereft cold of our climate. 

 JUSSI^A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 47 S. 



The Characters are, 

 // balh a fmall permanent empalement^ divided into Jive 



fegments at the top^ fitting 



rhefli 



five roundijh fpreading petals^ and ten Jhort Jlendet^ 



Jtamina^ terminated hy roundijh Ji 



The oblo7tg ger^ 



vienfupports ajlenderjlyle^ cro-xvned by aflat Jiig 

 with Jive ftripes. The germen afterward becomes a thick 

 oblong capfuleT^ crowitcd by the empalement^ ivhich opens 

 lengthways^ and is filled with fmall feeds, 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fetflion of* 

 Linnaius's tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Mcnogynia, 

 which includes the plants whofe flowers have ten fta- 

 mina and one ftyle. 

 The Species are, 

 I. Jussii5;A {Suffruticofa) ereftavillp&p floribus tetrape- 

 talis, decandriis felliljbus. Lin. Sp. Plant. SSS- k?^ 

 right hairy Jujfi^a^ with flowers fitting clofe to theftalks^ 

 having four petals and ten ftamina. Lyfimachia Indica 

 non pappofa, flore lutco minimo, filiquis carypphyl- 

 lum aromaticum aemulantibus/ H. L- 396. Indian 

 Primrofe with a very fmall yellow flower ^ and pgds re- 



fembling 



Jussi^A [Pubefc 



branching fialk^ flov^ers having fl' 



JufJU. 



and tenftamina which fit clofe to the ftalk. Lyfimachia 

 lutea eredta, non pappofa major, foliis hirfutis, fru^u 

 caryophylloide. Sloan- Cat. Jam. §5. Tellow upright 

 larger Tree-Primrofe with hairy kav^s^ and a fruit Uke 

 Cloves. 



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oftand 



170 



Smooth Mright 

 Jufft^a with four petals^ and eight ftamina to the flowers^ 

 which fit clofe to the ftalk, Lyfimachia tutea npn pap- 



pofa, ercfta,. 



3}p^. Cat. Ja 



ipright TrefJ^rimrofe 



fmoo}h leaves, and tf fruit U^f Cloves^ - .-. . . 



4. ]\j%&iMA {Onagra) cauI<?'er^<Sta rariiofo glabro, ilori- 



bus tetrapetalis oftandris feffilibus, foljig lanceolatis. 

 ' Juff%<ea with an tipri^lft^ l?ranchingffmogth ftalk, flg^^s 



-. having four petqls^ and §ight flamina fitting clofe to the 

 ftalk, and fpeflr-fhaped leayes.- Onagra foliis perficarisb 

 amplioribus, parvo flore lyteo. Plum. Cat. 7. Tree- 



; Primrofe with a large 'Arfefmart kaf and fl frnMydlovJ 

 flower. . ~ 



5. Jussi^A {Hirfuta) caylp < 



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Jujfi^a jvith afingle 



;petalis decandris ftflili 



ftalk, fpearfj 



flowers which btr^je Jhe pHals^ and ten fta- 

 mina fitting clofe to the ftalk. Omagra frci^^, fi^ujp rp- 

 bro hirfuto, foliis oblongis, fl9r? magno Jutfo. |jpuft. 

 MSS. Upright Primrofe with ^ hfliry leaf cf arfddifb 

 colour, gblong leaves, ^nd a large ycllcw fiowir. ^ , 

 The firft fort grows naturally at Caqnp^chy, fronfi 

 ■whence the feed^ were fent rpg by th? late Mr. Robert 

 Millar ; this rifes with a ibruWjy ftaljc near three feet 

 high, fending out feveral fide branches, whigh are gar- 

 niftied with oblong hairy leaves placed alternate- The 

 flowers cpme out from the fide of the ftalks fingly, 

 having ftiort foot-ftalks > they have fpur fmall yelipw 

 petals with eight ftamina ; thefe fit upon the germen,. 

 which afterward bccQrpe§^i> obJpng feed-veiTel, crown-- 



ed by the fgur-leayf d empajfiii^w, wd h^s a great re-^ 



.iiicmblance; 



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