S£CT. XIX. LISTS OF TREES, &:. 307 



quite To tender. AW feedl'mgs that can be brought up 

 in the open air, make much finer plants. The tender 

 Torts mould be put out in nurfery-beds, and occajiomily 

 protected by covering, and ibme potted to \>o. occafionally 

 houfed. 



Poijon trees, even the touch of the leaves of thefe 

 plants will afteft the (kin, but the fap is very (even 

 dangeroufiy) acrimonious. 



Pomegranate muff have a good fouth wall, and rich 

 foil. The double fort mould be occafionally mated in 

 fevere froft. In very favourable fituations (however) 

 they have fucceeded in ejpallers, dwarf, half, and even 

 full flandafds. The beft feafon for planting the pome- 

 granate is in fpring, when juft beginning to moot. It 

 is rather *rude of growth, and muft therefore have 

 timely training. The principal pruning mould always 

 be in autumn, and from time to time all llraggling, fu- 

 perfluous growths taken off, that moots may be encou- 

 raged to put out flrong blofToms, in the fullnefs of 

 which the great merit confifls. Thefe bearers fhould be 

 fix inches, or rather more, afunder. The mode of 

 flowering is at the ends of the young moots : nothing 

 equals this plant in finenefs of blow. The double fort 

 is more commonly planted; but the fmgle flower is very- 

 beautiful, and its fruit, which will ripen in fnug fa- 

 vourable fituations and feafons, makes a fine ihow alfo, 

 efpecially when burft. Both flowers and fruit are of a 

 very fine fcarlet. 



Rofe claims precedence of other mrubs. In its 

 varieties it fhould be planted in all fituations ; but the 

 Provence more particularly. This fhrub, in moil (if 

 not all its forts) does belt in a cool ftrong foil. 



The order of blowing may be reckoned thus : Cin- 

 namon, (fometimes called the May-rofe) monthly damafk, 

 burnet, Scotch, Penfylvanian, apple, 8cc. Then the iatefr. 

 rofes we have, are thofe of the monthly again, and the 

 mujk. Occafionally every fort may bear a few late 

 ones, but chiefly, the Provence. To encourage this 



" fhrub 



