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The manner of preparing the ground (if for walls) is 



the fan^.e as for Peaches •, as is alio pruning the roots 

 and planting, therefore I fliall forbear repeating 



The diftance which thefe trees fliould be 



muft not be Icfs th 



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planted at, muit not oe icis than twency-iour 

 againft high walls -, and if the wall is low> they fliould 

 be placed thirty feet afunder. 



' Plums (hould have a middling foil, neither too wet 

 and heavy, nor over light and dry, in either of which 

 extremes they feldom do fo well \ and thofe forts 

 which are planted againft walls, (hould have an eafl: 

 or fouth-eait afpc£t, which is more kindly to thefe 

 fruits than a full fouth afpeft, on which they are fub- 



. jcct to fiirive!, and be very dry •, and many forts v/ill 

 be extrenne meally, if cxpofed too much to the heat of 

 the fun ; but moft forts will ripen extremely well on 



efpaliers, it rightly managed. - . . -, ^:. . - 



.^ There are fome pcrfons who plant Plums for ftand- 



ards, in which method fome of the ordinary ibrts will 

 .. bear very well j but then the fruit will not be near fo 



fair as thofe produced on efpaliers, arid will be more 



in danger of being bruifed or blown down by ftrong 

 ^_ -winds- . .The diftance of placing them foj ^fo^liers 



xiiuft be the fame as againft walls, as muft alio their 

 ; pruning and management ; fo that whatever may be 

 , hereafter mentioned for one, fhould be likewife un- 

 V derftood for both. - . ' ' ■- 



Plums do not only produce their fruit upon the laft 

 ..yearns wood, but alfo upon curfons or fpurs, which 

 , come out of wood that is i^any years old ; fo that 

 . there is not a neceffity of Ibortcnine; the branches, in 

 •^ order to obtain new moots annually, in every part of 



the tree (as in Peaches, Neftarines, &c. hath been di- 

 ..„ fed^ed) fince the more thefe trees are pruned, the more 

 ^.luxuriant they grow, until the ftrength of them is 

 .; exhaufted, and then they gum and fpoil ; therefore the 

 i'i fafeft methoH tci manage thefe trees is, to lay in their 

 rv. ihoots horizontally, as they are produced, at equd 

 "\ diftances, in proportion to the length of their leaves •, 

 _;-. and where there is not a fufficient quantity of branches 

 ,^, to fill up the vacancies of the tree, there the (hoots 



ir\2.j be pinched the beginning of May (in the manner 

 ; as hatlf been direfted for Peaches, &c.) which will 

 : caufe them to produce fome lateral branches to fup- 

 * ply thofe places •, and during the growing feafon, all 



fore-right.lhoots fhould be difplaced, and fuch as are 



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pcrfoniiT the right management of thefe forts 6f"6-fj:t- 

 trees j therefore I (hall not fay any more on that iub- 

 jecl, left by multiplying inftruftions, it may render \t 

 more obfcurc to a learner. 



PSEUDOACACiA. SecRosiNiA. 



PSEUDODICTAMNUS. Sec Marrubium, 



P S I D I U M. Lin. Gen. Plant. 541 . Guajava. Tourn. 

 Inft. R. H. 660. tab. 443. The Guava-tree. 



The Characters are, , .• 



Thejlcvjer has a bell-Jhaped empalemcnt of one leaf^ divided 

 into Jive oval points at the "lop. It hath five ovai, cof7cave, 

 fpreading petals^ i7:de}7ted in the empakment^ with a great 

 mtmher of fiamina which are Jl^-rter than the petals ^\and 

 are inferted in the ewpalement, terminated hyfmallfumnnts. 

 It has a rctmdijh germen fituated under the fiowey\ fup- 

 porting a long awl-JJjaped Jlyle^ crowned by a fimple ftig- 

 ma \ the germen afterward becomes a large oval fruit 

 crowned by the cmpalement, inclojing a great number, of 



y^fmall feeds, .,■'■':%-',::. - ■.-■...: ^ •'■■:'. i 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fe£lior\ of 

 : LinnsEUs's twelfth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 :^ whofe flowers have many ftamina which are in- 

 ^ ferted in theempalcment, and one ftyle. 

 ■ - The Species are,- . - * 



/. PsiDiuM {Pyrifernm) foliis ovato-lanceolatis, pedun- 



,v culis unifloris. P/idium with oval fpear-Jhaped leaves^ 



. and one flower on each foot-JlalL Guajava alba dulcis, 



Hort. Amft. vol. i. p. 121. The fweet white Guava. 

 2."FsiDiuM (Po?mferum) -foliis bvatis, pedunculis tri- 

 ^r floris. Pf^dium with oval leaves and foot-flalks with three 



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Guajabo pomifera Indica, pomis rotundis. 



TheredGuava, ' ■ : ■ ' . * -•-' 



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C.B. P. 437. 

 Both thefe forts grow naturally in the Eaft and Weft- 

 Indies ; 'and there is alfo*a third with a lat"ge white 

 fruitj but I do. not know whether this is a variety of 

 the common Guava, or of that with the fmall white 

 . fruit I though I am inclined to believe it is the former^ 

 becaufe I have raifed many plants from the feeds of 

 the fmall white Guava, which have produced fruit 

 in the Chelfea Garden, and have not varied from their 

 parent plant. ' ■-'.': ■ > 



The common red Guava hath a pretty thick trur^k, 

 which rifes twenty feet high, covered with a fmooth 

 bark, and divides into many branches toward the top ; 

 thefe are angular, and garniflied with oval leaves two 

 inches and a half lono;, and one inch and a half broad 



^ to remain muft be regularly trained in to the wall or I in the middle, rounded at both ends ; they have a 

 cfpalier, which v/iil not Only render them beautiful, , . ftrong midrib, &nd rriariy veihs running toward the 



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but alfo give to each part of the trees an cqu^l ad- 

 vantage of fun and air ; and hereby the fruit will Idc 

 always kept in a dudile growing ftate, v/hich they 

 feldom are, 'when overfliaded with fhoots fome part 

 of the feafon, and then fuddenly expofed to the air, by 

 •taking oiF, or training ^ofe branches in their proper 



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 fruit is cut 



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With thus carefully going over thefe trees in the grow- • 



ins feafon. there will be bur little work to do to them 



for when the branches arc (hortened, the 



^way, and the number of ihoots in- 



, crcafed j for vyhenever a branch is Ihortencd, there 

 are commonly two or more ilioots produced from the 

 eyes immediately below tlie cut; fo that by thus un- 

 Ikilfully pruning, many perjpns crowd. their trees with 



^ branches, ^nd thereby render what little fruit the 



. trees produce, very fmall and ill-tafted ; which is very 

 commonly found in too many gardens, where the ma- 

 nager, perhaps, thinks himfelf a complete mafter of 



, his bufinefs ; for nothing i^ more common than to fee 

 every branch of a fruit-tree pafs the difcipline of the 

 knife, however difagrceable it be to feveral forts of 

 fruits. And it is common to fee thefe trees planted at 

 the diftance of fourteen or fixteen feet, fo that the walls 

 are in a few years cgvered with branches ; and then 

 all the ftioots are cut and mangled with the knife, fo 

 as to appear like a ftumped hedge, and produce little 

 fruit i, therefore the only way to have Plum-trees in 

 good order, is to give them room, and extend their 



branches at full langth. 



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Thofe fev/ rules before hid down, will be fufficient, 

 if due Qbfervation be joined therewith, to inftrud any 



fides, of a light gr^ep colour, ft^a4Jng oppofite uppn 

 very fliort fopt-ftalks. From the wings of the leaves 

 the uOwerV come out upon fobt-ftalks, about an inch 

 arid a half .lofig', they are compofed of five large, 

 roundilh, concave, white petals, which ^re inferted in 

 the empalement, and within thefe are a great number 

 of ftamiha which are fhorter than the petals, terminated 

 by fmall fummits ; thefe ftamina are alfo inferted in thq.' 

 empalement. Under the flower is fituated a roundifh 

 germen, fupporting a very long awl-fhaped ftyle, 

 crowned by a fimple ftigma. After the flower is paft, 

 the germen becomes a large oval fruit, fhaped like a 

 Pomegranate, having one cell, crowned by the cm- 

 pakment of the "Rower, and filled with fmall feeds -,, 

 the fruit, when ripe, has an agreeable odour. They 

 are rnuch eaten in the Weft-Indies, both by men and 

 beafts , and the feeds, which pafs whole through the 

 body,' and are voided with the excremeftt groiv, 

 whereby the trees are fpread over the ground where 

 they are permitted to grow. .\ This fruit is very 

 aftringent, and nearly of the fame quality with Pome- 

 granate, fo fliould be avoided by thofe perfons who 

 arc fubjeft to be coftive. "t . 

 The large white fon grows naturally in the iflands of 

 the Weft-Indies, and is often found intermixed with 

 the former, fo is fuppofed to be only an accidental 

 variety arifing from the fame feeds., This differs from 

 the former in the colour of the midrib of the leaves, 

 which in this are pale, but thofe of the former are red. , 

 The flowers and fruit of this are larger, and the infidc 

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