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superfluous roots and branches cut away, en- 

 couraging the leading shoots; planting them in a 

 well-sheltered quarter of light mould. The 

 ground should be, dug over in autumn and 

 spring, keeping it clean, loose, and mellow in 

 summer, and the plants be annually pruned in 

 April. 



The gold-striped variety is tender, being com- 

 monly "kept in pots, and housed with hardy 

 green-house plants. When it stands in the 

 open ground, it is sometimes much injured in 

 severe winters. The method of increasing it is 

 by budding it on the plain sort. 



' The broad-leaved and narrow-leaved varieties 

 are not so hardy as the common sort, being 

 scarcely able tolive abroad whilst young, in com- 

 mon winters, without shelter. As in severe win- 

 ters the old trees are frequently killed, or at least 

 the branches much injured, the plants are fre- 

 quently kept in tubs, and housed in winter. 



The second, third, and fourth sorts may be 

 increased by seed, by layers, and sometimes by 

 suckers and cuttings. The seeds or berries pro- 

 cured from America, and preserved in sand, 

 should be sown as soon after they arrive as pos- 

 sible, in a bed of light earth an inch deep, or in 

 largish pets the same depth, plunging them in 

 mould, in an eastern border, up to their rims, 

 till the spring following ; when they should be 

 placed in a hot-bed, which greatly forwards the 

 germination of the seed, and soon brings up 

 the plants. They must be timely inured to the 

 full air. The plants raised by either method 

 should, while young, be watered during sum- 

 mer, and sheltered from frost in winter, and 

 when two years old be planted out in nursery 

 rows, as directed for the other plants. They may 

 also be increased by layers and suckers in the 

 same manner as directed for the first sort; but 

 it is sometimes long before the layers are rooted. 

 They are likewise sometimes capable of being 

 increased by cuttings, by the aid of a good hot- 

 bed. 



The fifth, sixth, and seventh sorts may be 

 increased bv layers, but they are sometimes two 

 vears before they are sufficiently rooted. They 

 inay also be raised from seeds, procured from 

 the places of their natural growth, sowing them 

 in pots, and plunging them in a hot- or bark- 

 bid ; but without tins aid, they do not always 

 grow freely the first season ; in which case they 

 should he placed in the open air in summer, and 

 ma frame or in the green-house, near the win- 

 dows, in winter; and in spring the pots be 

 plunged in a hut-bed, which will bring up the 

 plants, giving air daily, and frequent waterings, 

 and inuring them by degrees to the open air as 

 the summer advances; placing them in shelter 



in winter, and in the following spring planting 

 them out in separate small pots, managing them 

 as other green-house shrubs. 



The eighth, ninth, and tenth sorts are also 

 raised by layers and seed, sown and managed as 

 above, generally assisted by the bark -bed of the 

 stove; the plants being planted off into separate 

 pots, and managed afterwards as other hot- 

 house plants. 



The first, second, third, and fourth sorts are 

 highly ornamental in the borders and clumps in 

 pleasure-grounds; the three following in green- 

 house collections ; and the three last among 

 other stove plants. 



LAWN, an open space of short grass-ground, 

 in the front of a residence, or in a garden, park, 

 or other pleasure-ground. 



Lawns extended in the principal fronts of 

 habitations, add considerably to the neatness 

 and grandeur of their appearance, by laying 

 them open, and admitting more extensive pro- 

 spects. Where there is a sufficient scope of 

 ground, they should be as large as the nature 

 of the situation will admit, always being plan- 

 ned in the most conspicuous parts immediately 

 adjoining the houses, and extended outward 

 as far as convenient, allowing width in pro- 

 portion; having each side or verge bounded 

 by elegant shrubbery compartments in a va- 

 ried order, separated in some parts by inter- 

 vening spaces of grass-ground, of varied dimen- 

 sions, and serpentine gravel-walks, gently wind- 

 ing between and through the plantations, for 

 occasional shady, sheltered, and private walking; 

 or similar walks carried along the fronts of the 

 boundary plantations, and immediately adjoining 

 the Lawns, for more open and airy walking in ; 

 and in some concave sweeps of the plantations 

 there may be recesses and open spaces both of 

 grass and gravel, of different forms and dimen- 

 sions, made as places of retirement, shade, &c. 



The usual situations of Lawns are those just 

 mentioned ; but if the nature of the ground ad- 

 mit, or in cases where there is good scope of 

 ground, they may be continued more or less each 

 way ; but always the most considerably on the 

 principal fronts, which if they be to the south, 

 or any of the southerly points, they are the 

 most desirable for the purpose. 



The dimensions may be from a quarter of an 

 acre or less, to six or eight acres or more, ac- 

 cording to the extent and situation of the 

 ground. Sometimes Lawns are extended over 

 lia-has, to ten, twenty, or even to fifty or sixty 

 acres or more. 



The form must be directed by the nature of 

 the situation ; but it is commonly oblong, square, 

 oval, or circular. But in whatever figure they 



