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EW-TREE. SeeTAXus. 

 YUCCA. Dillen. Gen. Nov. 5. Lin. Gen. 

 Plant. 388. Cordyline. Roy. Lug. Prod. 22. 

 The Indian Yucca, or Adam's Needle. 

 The Characters are, 

 ^hefower has no empakment ; it has a hell'floapedflo'xer^ 

 CGmpofed of fix large petals vohofe tails are joined^ and fix 

 fiort reflexed ftardna terminated by fmall ft 



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lar Ip'ilce % they are of a bright purple colour on the 

 outfide, and white within, making a fine appearance. 

 The flowers appear at the fame time with the former^ 

 but the plants of this do not flower fo often as the 

 other fort j and when they flower, the head decays, 

 but one or two young heads come out from the fide 

 of the flalk, below the old one. 

 The third fort grows naturally in South Carolina,frona 



an oblono- tbree-cor?iered germen -which is longer than the whence I received the feeds by the title of Oil Seed. 



jlamina^ having no Jlyle^ crozvned hy an obtufe ft 



^.-cornered 

 effed feeds. 



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The fl:alks of this fort rife about three or four feet 

 high i the leaves are narrow, of a dark green colour. 



pfide divided into three cells^ filled \ and hang downward ; they are fawed on their edges, 



and end in acute fpines. I never faw the flowers of 

 this fort, but have been informed they are white. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: feclion of I The threaded fort is not fo common as the others in the 

 Linna^us's fixth clafs, which includes thofe plants | Englifli gardens, but as it is a native of Virginia, it 



might eafily be procured in plenty from thence. The 



ranz^rnent. 



whofe flowers have fix ftamina and one fl:yle. 



The Species are. 

 Yucca {Gloriofa) foliis integerrimis. Vir. Cliffy. 29. 

 Tucca with entire leaves. Yucca foliis Aloes. C. B. P. 



flialk and leaves are like thofe of the firft fort, but the 

 leaves are obtufe, and have no fpines at their ends. 

 The flower-fl:alk rifes five or fix feet high, which is cre^ 



2. YuccA 



th leaves like thofe of 



Needle. ■ 



ifolia) foliis crenulati 



nerally garniflied with flowers mofl;of its length ; the 



flowers are larger and whiter than thofe of the other 



fpecies, and fit clofe to the ftalk. From the fide of the 



flighily I leaves come out long threads which hang down. 



.crenated, ' Yucca arborefcens, foliis rigidioribusreftis j AH thefe plants are either propagated by k.t^^ when, 

 ferratis. Dill. Hort. Elth. 435. free-like Tucca with\ obtained from abroad, or elfe from offsets or heads 



ftrait^ ftiff^ fc 



taken from the old plants, after the manner of Aloes, 



3. Yucca (Dr^^r^.w) foliis crenatis nutantibus. Lin. Sp. [ When they are raifed from feeds, they fliould be fown 



Plant. 319. Tucca with 7todding crenated leaves. Yucca [ in pots filled with light frefti earth, and plunged into 



draconis folio ferrato. Hort. Elth. 457. 2"ucca with a \ a moderate hot-bed, where the plants will come up' in 

 fawed Dragon-tree leaf 



Sp. Plant. 319. Tucca with fawed thready 

 foliis filamentofis, Mof. Hift.-72*.; p. 



leaved ilicca. 



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five or fix weeks after; and when they are two or three 

 inches high, they fliould be tranfplanted each into a 



- feparate fmall pot filled with light frefli earth, and 

 plunged into a hot-bed, where the plants fliould have 



' air' and water in proportion to the warmth of thefea- 



The firft of thefe plants is a native of Virginia, and fon, and the bed wherein they are placed, 



other parts of North America, but has been long an j In July they fhould be inured by degrees to bear the 



inhabitantcf the Englifn gardens, where it was for- I openair, into which they mufl; be removed, to harden 



' merly nurfed up in grecn-houfes, fuppofing it was too j them ,before winter, placing them in'a well flickered 



tender to live in the open air in winter ; but of late I fitiiatlor, where they may remain until the beginning 



V years the plants have been planted into the full 

 ground, where they have refifted the greatefl: cold of 

 ; our winters v/here they are in a dry foil. ; ' * ' 



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r This fort feldom rifes with a ftem above two feet and 



of October, when they muft' be removed jnto the 

 '; igreen-houfe, where tney may be ranged ^Ynbffgfi: 

 ^>' thejaardier fort of Aloes, and fliould be trealted- in 

 -•^'•the fame manner as hath been already directed for 



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a half or three feet high/which is garniflie'd with leaves ^ them ;' to which the reader is 'defined to turn, for fur- 

 almoft to the ground/ ''The leaves of this are broad, -'"ther inftr^^ 



ftiff, and have the appearance of thofe of the Aloe, j ^-Wh 

 - but are narrower ; they are "of a dark green colour, vi the common forCi ahd alfo the threaded, rhay be 'af-*; 

 V ending in afharp black fpine." This fort/requently l.-'terwards turned out into awarni border, where they 



produces its panicles of flowers, which rife from the 

 i: center of the leaves. The fl:alks grow three feet high -, 

 :: they branch out on every fide to a confiderable dif- 



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end 



t>nbut tfie otlier forts' niuft. be kept in pots,' that they 

 ' ' "f!iay be flickered in winter ; 'and if they are treittrd in 



'jrftfie fame way as the large^Ameiidati AJoc, they will 



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fl:alks, which renders it lefs beautiful than the flowers | v'^o very well.- _ . 



■r of the other kinds ; they are white within, but each "^^^The ofl:sets taken from thb old pt^nfS fl^(5uld be laid 

 petal is marked with a purple fl;ripe on the outfide; [ ^-in a dry place, for'aweek c^ .fcehdays before they 



•- are planted, that their wotiiids. may heal, otherwife 

 -tJiey will be fubjeftto rat with moifl:ure; " ■ '' ' 



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they are bell-fliaped, and hang downward -, they ap- 

 pear in Auguft and September, but are not fucceeded ^ ^ ^ 



by feeds in^England. f As 'the fecond and third forts do not put out offsets fo 



l^he fecond fort rifes with a thick, tough, fieftiy fl:alk, plentifully as the firft and^fourth, fo in order to pro^ 



to the height often or tv/elve feet, having a head or pagate them. 



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tuft of leaves at the top ; thefe are narrower and fl:ifi^er 



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than thofe of the former fort,' and are of a lighter j may be planted, which will foon take root, provided 



the pots are plunged into a moderate hot-bed ; and 

 this cutting ofi" the heads will occafion the Hems to 

 in the center of the ^leaves, and "is from two to three j put out fuckers, which they feldom do without until 

 feet long, branching out into a pyramidal form. The they flower ; fo that by this method, the plants may 



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green colour-, their edges are flightly fawed, and their 

 points end with ft^arp thorns. The flower-flialk rifes 



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