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and by the following autumn they will have taken 

 * root, when they fliould be cut off from the plants, 

 and cither planted where they are to remain, or into 

 a nurfcry to be trained up, either for llandards,v/hich 

 inuft be done by fixing down ftakes to the ftem of 

 each plant, to which their principal ftalk fhould be 

 faftened, and all the other muft be cut off; the prin- 

 cipal ftalk muft be trained to the intended height of 

 the ftem, then it fhould be fhortened to force out 

 lateral branches, and thefe fhould be again ftopped to 

 prevent their growing too long ; by the conilant re- 

 peating this as the flioots are produced, they may be 

 formed into a fort of ftandard ; but if any regard is 

 . had to their flowering, they cannot be formed into 

 regular heads, for by conftantly fhortening their 

 branches, the flower-buds wnll be cut off, fo that few 

 flowers can be expefted ; and as it is an unnatural 

 form for thefc trees, fo there fhould be but few of 

 ■ them reduced to it, for when they are planted near 

 other bufhes, in whofe branches the fhoots of the 



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 much better, and ^have a finer appearance than 

 when they are more regularly trained ; therefore, 

 when the plants are In the hurfery, if two or three 

 of the principal fhoots are trained up to the ftakes, 

 and the others are entirely cut off, they will be fit to 

 tranfplant the following autumn, to the places where 

 they are to remain ; for though the roots may be 

 tranfplanted of a greater age, yet they do not thrive fo 

 well as when they are removed while they are joung. 

 ' When thefe plants are propagated by cuttings, they 

 fhould be planted in September, a^ fodn as the ground 

 . is moiftened by rain. The cuttings fhould have four 

 ; joints, three of which fhould be buried in the ground, 

 . and the fourth above" the furface, from which the 

 ihoots fhould be 'produced. Thefe may be planted 

 in rows, at about a foot diftance row from row, and 

 four inches afunaer in the rows, treading the earth 

 , ■ clofe to them ; and as the evxrgi*een and late red Ho- 

 ■ :' neyfuckles, are a little more tender than the other forts, 

 :fo if the ground between the rows where thefe are 

 ■-.planted, is covered with tanners bark Or other mulch 

 to keep out the froft in winter, and the drying winds 

 . of the fpring, it will be of great advantage to the 

 : /cuttings ; and if the cuttings of thefe forts have a fmall 

 piece of the two years wood at their bottom, there 

 %;jwill be no hazard of their taking root. The plants 

 -ir which are raifed from cuttings, are preferable to thofe 

 . ' which are propagated by layers, as they have eeneral- 



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caiife their flowers continue infucceffion much longer 

 than the other forts. 



Thefe plants may be propagated by feedsr, but unlefs 

 they are fown in the autumn foon after they are ripe, 

 the plants will not come up the firft year 



PERIPLOCA. Tourn. Inft. R. tl. 93. tab. 22. 

 Lin. Gen. Plant. 267. [llfptTrAoKi!, of isr^pl, about, and 

 ■arAoy.^, a knitting or plaiting, becaufe this plant en- 

 tangles icfelf with iufclf, or any other neighbouring 

 plants.] Virginian Silk. 



The Characters are, , ' ■ 



The flow sr hath a finalLpermanent empaJement^ cut inio 

 five points, The flower h^s one plain petals cut into five 

 narrow fegments^ which are indented at their points^ with 

 a fmall neBarium going round the center of the petals and 

 the five incurved filaynents which are not fo long as thepe- 



[ taU and five Jhort ftamind terminated by ere5f fummits 



■ which join in a head. It has a fnall bifid germen with 



■ fcarce anyfiyle^ crowned by two Jimple ftigmas, Theger- 

 - men afterward becomes two oblong bellied capfules with one 



celly filled with feeds crowned with down^ lying over each 

 other like the fcales of fifi. ■ ' ■ 



This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feftion 

 of Linnasus's fifth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have five flamina and two flyles. 

 The Species are. 



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Peiiiploca (Gr^c^) floribus interne hirfutis. Lin. Sp. 

 Plants 211. .Virginia Silk^ with flowers hairy en their /«- 



e. Periploca/oliis.oblongis. Tourn. Inil. R. H. 

 / 93. Virginia Silk with oblong leaves, 

 2. 'Pek'wloca {Africana) caule hirfuto. Lin. Sp. Plant. 

 -'^'^^f XI Virginia Silk with a hairy ftalk , Apocynurh fcan- 



"~'dens, Afric^num, yincse pervjncse folio fubincaiiuiii. 

 Com, Plant. Rar. 18. Climbing African pogfibane, with 



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-.. tef) they thrive bell in a foft fandy loam, and will re- 



>tain their leave's in greater verdure in fuch ground than 



: if planted in a dry eravelly foil, where in warm dry 



,>./cafons their leaves often fnrmk, and hang m a very 



: difagreeable manner ; nor will thofe forts which nltu- 



,. rally flower late In the autumn, continue fo long in 



. : beauty on a dry erround, unlefs the feafon fhould prove 



moift and cold, as thofe in a gentle loam, not too 



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- a hoary Teriwmkle leaf i't 



3. pERiPLpcA (/'r/z/zViT^) foliis oblongo-cordatis pubef^ 



. centibus, floribus ^laribus, caulg fruticofo fcandente. 

 Virginia Silky with oblong heart-fhaped leaves whic^ are 

 covered with foft hairs ^ and flowers proceeding from the 



fides of the ftalksy which are fhrubby, Periploca foliis 

 cordatis holofericeis, floribus parvis, albis, campani- 

 formibus. Houft. MSS. Periploca with heart-fhaped 



Jilky leaves^ and fmall^ whit Cybell-fhaped flowers. 

 The firfl fort grows naturally in Syria, but is hardy 



^ enough to thrive in the open air in England.. It hath 

 ■ ■ twining flirubby ftalks, covered with a dark bark, 

 which twifl round any neighbouring iupport, and will 

 rife more than forty feet high, fending out flcnder 

 branches from the fide, which twine round each other, 

 and are garnilhed with oval fpear-fhaped leaves near 

 four inches long, and two broad in the middle, of a 

 lucid green on their upper fide, but pale on their un- 

 der, flanding by pairs, upon fhort foot-flalks.'.. The 

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 -; on. their infide, comppfed of one petal, cut into five 

 *V fegments^aTmott to the bottom, which fpread open 

 ., in form of a flar, and within is fituated a nedtarium, 



which goes round the five fhprt ftamina andgermen, ■ . 



and is hairy. The germen afterward turns to a dou- * 

 . ble long taper pod or capfule, filled with corhprefled 

 \, feeds, lying over each other like the 'Tcales of fifh. 

 There are few forts of fhrubs Which deferve cultiva- 1 , havihg a foft down fixed to their top\ ' This plane 



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,-^very beautiful, and perfume the air to a'grcat diflance 

 with their odour^ efpecially in the mornings and eveiv 



~ ings,'and in ''cloudy weather," when the fun does not 

 exhale their odour, and raife.it too high to ^e percep- 

 tible ^ fo that in all retired walks, there cannot be 

 too many of thefe intermixed with the other Ihrubs. 

 I havefeen thefe plants intermixed in hedges ''planted 

 either with Alder or Laurel, where the branches have 

 been artfully trained between thofe of the hedge •, 

 from which the flowers have appeared difperfed from 

 the bottom of the hedge to the top, and being inter- 

 mixed with the ftrong green leaves of the plants which 



' principally compofe the hedge, they have made a fine 



. appearance; but the beft forts for this purpofe, are 

 the evergreen and long-blowing Honeyfuckles, be- 



flowers in July and Auguft, but rarely ripens its feeds 



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It is eafily propagated by laying down of the branches, 

 which will put out roots in one year, and may then 

 6e cut from .the old plant, and plantedwhere they are 

 to'remain.w^ Thefe may be tranfplanted either in au- 

 tumn, when the leaves begm to tall, or in the 

 Sefore^they begih to fhoot, and mufl beplanted where 

 they may have fupport, btherwife they \yili trail on 

 the ground, and fafl:en themfelves about whatever 





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 many flender-ftalks, which twine about each^ other, 



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 feet high, putting out feveral fmall fide branches -,•■ 



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