276 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Part II. 



1775. Hot-house Plants. 



Sp.&Var. ,. Sp. &Var. 



Trees and shrubs - 850 Aquatics - . . . . ^5 



Climbers - . - - - 150 Reedy or scitaminous - - - - 55 



Succulent plants - . - - 130 



Bulbous-rooted plants .... 80 Total 1463 



Herbaceous . - - - - 170 



1776. Annuals, native and exotic. 



Sp.&Var. Sp.&Var. 



Hardy - - - - - - 300 Used in agriculture exclusive of grasses . . 80 



Half hardy ... - - 140 



Tender - - " - - - 100 Total 820 



Esculent - - - - - 200 



Total. Hardy, 4580; green-house and dry -stove, 3180 ; hot-house, 1463; annuals, 

 820; total, 10,043; of these, above 3000 may be considered as varieties, so that the 

 actual hortus procurable in British nurseries, may be estimated, as to the British hortus 

 of books, as 7 to 12, or including the cryptogamous plants, as 8 to 12. 



1777. With respect to the application of the purchasable Flora of Britain, including 

 species and varieties, we submit the following as only a rude outline, the subject not 

 admitting of perfect accuracy from the ever-varying number of varieties. 



1778. Varieties of Fruit-trees, and Fruit-bearing Plants, for Sale in British Nurseries. 



Sp.&Var. Sp.&Var. Sp.&Var. 



Apples - - - 300 Apricots V" - - -7,0 Cranberry ... 1 



Pears - - . - 300 Plums - . - 150 Mulberries - - - 2 



Medlars ... 2 Cherries - - - 100 Filberts . . . 6 



Quinces - . - 2 Grapes . . 50 Walnuts ... 3 



Services . . . 3 Figs - . 30 Chestnuts - - - 3 



Oranges and Lemons . . 60 Gooseberries - - 200 Melons - - 15 



Peaches - - - - 100 Currants - . 4 Pine-apples - - - 20 



Nestarines - - 50 Raspberries . - - 10 



Almonds ... 6 Strawberries - - . . 20 Total 1417 



1779. Esculent Herbaceous P/awf5, annuals and perennials, used in Horticulture. 



Sp.&Var. Sp.&Var. * Sp.&Var. 



Cabbage tribe . - I 35 Pot herbs and gamishings 11 16 Edible -wild plants which 1 _, _, 



Leguminous plants - - 3 59 Sweet herbs - 12 20 may be used - - . j" '^ '^ 



Esculent roote - - 10 45 Plants used in confectionary") ,. , Edible fungi - - - 3 3 



Spinaceous plants . -6 10 and domestic medicine J ^* ^'* Edible fuci ... .88 



Alliaceous plants - . 7 18 Plants used as preserves and 1 , q~ . 



Asparaginous plants - - 11 18 pickles . . . j" a-' 'o - Total 154 337 



Acetaceous plants - - 25 40 ~ 



1780. Florists' Flowers, used in Floriculture. 



Sp. &Var. Sp.&Var. Sp.&Var. 



Bulbous-rooted Plants. Colchicums - - - 10 Tuberous rooted Plants. 



Hyacinths - - - 200 Other sorts - - loo Dahlias .... 400 



TuUps - . - 300 Fibrous rooted Plants. I'seonies . - - 20 



Crocuses . - -100 .Auriculas - - - 200 Ranunculuses - - - 300 



Narcissi .... 200 Polyanthl ... 100 Anemonies . - 200 



Irises .... 60 Primroses - ... ^20 . 



Fritillaries - ... 20 Cowslips - - - 10 Total 2666 



Crown-imperials ... 20 Pinks - . . - 200 . 



Denscanis - - - - 6 Carnations - - - 300 



1781. Hardy Timber-trees and Shrubs, used in Arboriculture, Floriculture, and 

 Landscape-gardening. 



Sp.&Var. Sp.&Var. 



Trees planted for timber - ... 100 Shnibg planted for various uses, as fuel, charcoal,") _ 



. other useful purposes - 20 bark, firewood, &c. J ^'' 



Trees planted for ornament - - - 180 



Hedge-plants ..... 10 Total 330 



1782. Agricultural Herbaceous Plants, grown for Food for Men and Cattle, and for 

 use in various Arts. 



Sp. & Var. Sp. & Var. 



Grains for human food - . - - 4 20 Plants used for dyeing . - - - 2 2 



Leguminous seeds - ..---4 10 Plants used for the clothing arts - - - 2 2 



Roots - . 6 20 Sea plants used - - - - -66 



Herbage plants, not grasses - - - - 9 15 Mosses used in dyeing ... - 1 1 



grasses, and grasses for grains for the infe- "J a c.c for various purposes^ in the arts . 6 6 



nor animals - - - . - J''" -''^ 



Plants used for furnishing oils and essences - - 5 5 Total 65 112 



1783. Miscellaneous applications of Hardy Perennials, native and exotic. 



Sp. & Var. Sp. & Var. 



Border-flowers, or such as are used in flower-gar-") ^nr, Used for distillation and perfumery . . 20 



dens and shrubberies, in ordinary cases about J 



Used in the modem pharmacopeias . - 50 Total 870 



Sold by herbalists, and used by quacks andirreeu-1 on 



lar practitioners - . - J 



1784. ^jyjylication of curious hot-house exotics, or such plants of ornament as require the 

 jyrotection of glass. Of these there are in ordinary green-houses seldom more than 100 

 species and varieties, and not more than half that number in most of our plant-stoves. 

 The remainder of this class are confined to the public and private botanic gardens, and 

 to eminent public nurseries. Many of this division are of great importance in their na- 

 tive countries, as the indigo, sugar.cane, tea-tree, cinnamon, &c. ; the mango, durion, 

 and other excellent fruits, the palms, bamboos, &c. Even some, here treated as entirely 

 ornamental, afford useful products in their own countries, as the camellia, sun-flower, 

 &c. from the seeds of which oils are expressed in China and America, The cultivation 



