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eligible on which to erect the chief habitation, 

 arranging the pleasure-ground accordingly ; 

 such an exposure being the most desirable, both 

 for the beauts' of the prospect and hcathfuhuss 

 of the air ; a low level situation neither afford- 

 ing a due prospect of the ground, or the adja- 

 cent country, besides being liable to unwhole- 

 some dampness, and sometimes inundation in 

 winter : there are, however, many level situa- 

 tions, forming plains or flats, that possess great 

 advantages both of soil and prospect, and the 

 beauties of water without too much moisture ; 

 there are also sometimes large tracts of ground, 

 consisting both of low and high situations, as 

 level plains, hollows, eminences, declivities, and 

 other inequalities, which mav be so improved 

 as to make a most desirable pleasure-ground, as 

 the scene may be varied in the most beautiful 

 manner imaginable; but as the choice of situa- 

 tion and scope of ground is not always attain- 

 able, every one must regulate his plan in the 

 most commodious manner possible, agreeable to 

 the nature of the particular situation, extent of 

 ground, and plan which has been adopted. 



The extent of pleasure-grounds may be vari- 

 ous, according to that of the estate or premises, 

 and other circumstances, as from a quarter or 

 half an acre to thirty or forty or more. 



The ground for this purpose should previ- 

 ously be well fenced in, by a wall, paling, 

 hedge, or parts of each sort, and in some parts 

 a fosse or ha-ha, where it may be necessary to 

 extend the prospect, either at the termination of 

 a lawn, walk, or avenue ; and the close fences 

 should generally be concealed withinside, par- 

 ticularly the wall and paling fences, by a range 

 of close plantation, unless where the wall may 

 be wanted for the culture of wall-fruit. But 

 sometimes, when the pleasure-ground adjoins 

 to a fine park, paddock, or other agreeable 

 prospect* the boundary fence on that side is 

 often either a low hedge, or a ha-ha; but many 

 prefer the latter, especially at the termination of 

 any spacious open, both to extend the prospect 

 more effectually, and give the ground an air of 

 greater extent than it really has", at a distance ; 

 the ha-ha being sunk, nothing like a fence ap- 

 pears, so that the adjacent park, fields, &c, 

 appear to be connected with the grounds. 



The arrangement of the several divisions, both 

 internal and external, must be wholly regulated 

 by the nature and extent of the ground. 



And in whatever mode such grounds arc laid 

 out, the whole of the different quarters, walks, 

 and other parts, should be kept in an exact and 

 neat order. 



PLIANT MEALY TREE. See Vibur- 

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1'l.INIA, a genus comprising a plant of the 

 exotic shrubby kind for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Icosandria 

 Monagynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Rosacvce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianth, five- or four-parted : segments 

 acute, flat, small: the corolla five- or four-pe- 

 talled : petals ovate, concave : the stamina have 

 numerous capillary filaments, the length of the 

 corolla: anthers small: the pistillum is a su- 

 perior, small germ : style awl-shaped, longer 

 than the stamens : stigma simple : the pericar- 

 pium is a very large drupe, globular, grooved : 

 the seed single, very large, globular, smooth. 



The species is P. pedttnculala, Red-fruited 

 Plinia, or Myrtle. 



It has the leaves opposite, pctioled, simple, 

 even, like those of myrtle, ovate: the flowers 

 are peduncled, the length of the leaves, subum- 

 belled : the calycine leaflets four, ovate, con- 

 cave, spreading, coloured, reflex : the petals, 

 four or eight, obovate, sessile, twice as long as 

 the calyx : the filaments very many, capillary, 

 the length of the petals, inserted into the re- 

 ceptacle : anthers roundish : germ inferior, 

 roundish angular : the style filiform, the length 

 of the stamens : the stigma simple : the berry 

 roundish, the size of a plum, with eight swell- 

 ings, one-celled, umbilicated, with a four-tooth- 

 ed calyx, red and sapid : seed single, sub-glo- 

 bular. It is a native of Brasil, flowering in Ja- 

 nuary and February. 



Culture. — It is increased bv the seeds, which 

 should be procured from abroad, and which 

 should be sown in pots, filled with rich mould, 

 plunging them in a bark hot-bed, when they 

 appear in the same season. They may also be 

 increased by planting cuttings of the young 

 shoots, in the later spring and summer months, 

 in pots filled with good earth, covering them 

 with hand- or bell-glasses, and watering them 

 occasionally. They may be so rooted as to be 

 fit for removing into separate pots the same year. 



It is highly ornamental in stove-collections, 

 from its flowering in the winter season. 



PLUM. SeePRUNUs. 



PLUM,' MAIDEN. See Camocladia. 



PLUMBAGO, a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous flowering perennial kinds. 



It belong to the class and order Pcntandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Plumbagines. 



The characters arc : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianth, ovate-oblong, tubular, five- 

 cornered, rugged, with a five-toothed mouth, 

 permanent : the corolla one-pctalled, funnel- 

 form : tube cylindrical, narrower at top, longer 

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