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Dwarf Shrubby Orache, or Common Sea Pur- 

 slane. 



The first has an annua! root. The slcni rises 

 three feet in height, ami more, and is thick and 

 shining. The leaves are thick, pale green, and 

 .glaucous, with few veins, of a slightly acid 

 flavour ; they differ in shape: sortie" stretch out 

 into a long point from a broad base, being entire 

 .about the edge ; some are deltc id ; others are ser- 

 rate or sinuate, and others again are triangular, 

 it is a native of Tartary. 



There are several varieties ol this plant, as 

 with dark green leaves, with dark purple leaves, 

 .Slid with greeti leaves and put pie borders. 



The second species has a perennial woody 

 root, dividing into many brandies. The whole 

 ahrub is white. The stems from four to sis feet 

 high or more, with main' thick, woodv, brittle 

 branches. The leaves irregularly disposed on the 

 branches on long petioles, thick, succulent, 

 somewhat shining, having a subacid flavour. 

 The flowers are small, purplish, at the ends of 

 the branches. It is a native of Spain, &c; 



The thud is a low undershrub, seldom rising 

 above two feet and a half, or at most three feet 

 high, but becoming very bushy. The leaves 

 are narrow, and of a whitish colour, but not so 

 •white as those of the former. In its wild state 

 it varies in height from six inches to a yard. 

 The branches generally recline, are angular, and 

 of a whitish green colour. The leaves are glau- 

 cous, opposite, petioled, generally elliptic, sonic 

 obtuse, others lanceolate. The flowers are yel- 

 low, and terminate the branches in clustered 

 spikes. It is a native of Europe, and flowers in 

 July and August. 



Culture. — The culture in the first species is 

 by sowing the seeds in beds or drills in the early 

 spring months, when designed for use in the 

 summer season, and in the autumn, soon after 

 they become ripe, when intended to be made use 

 of in the spring. When the plants are come up 

 a few inches in height, they should be set out 

 to the distance of four or five inches or more by 

 the hoe, and be afterwards kept perfectly clean 

 from weeds. In good soils, with sufficient 

 room, the leaves became large and flcshv, and 

 are made use of while young in the manner of 

 spinach, being preferred by some as having a 

 more mild flavour. 



The two last species may be increased by plant- 

 ing cuttings in the spring and summer seasons 

 in shady borders or other situations, being either 

 left to grow up, or in the autumn following 

 transplanted into the places where they are to 

 remain. As the plants do not bear moving well 

 when they become woody, it should be done in 

 their early growth. 



These plants have an excellent effect in wil- 

 derness and other quarters of ornamented 

 grounds, from the fine silvery whiteness of their 

 haves, when judiciously blended with other 

 shrubby plants of similar growth. The second 

 species grows rapidlv, and sometimes produces 

 flowers. 



AVENUEj a large and mostly a straight 

 walk, hounded on the sides by one, two, or 

 more rows of forest? or other trees, designed 

 sometimes as a principal way from the 

 road to a counlrv house or seat, and often to 

 form Views, or to lead to different districts of 

 the neighbouring country. But though avenues, 

 when formed about ~eat-, or detached in narks 

 or other extensive pleasure-grounds, may exhi- 

 bit an air of grandeur, it is more agreeable lo 

 the present taste to have the principal fronts of 

 residences entirelv open and. kninenn bered with 

 these or other kinds of plantations, asitis cer- 

 lainlv absurd to hide a good front and obstruct 

 the prospect ; an avenue can therefore seldom 

 be admitted with propriety in that part of the 

 ground. But in directions from the wings, de- 

 tached at considerable distances, avenues may 

 perhaps with propriety be occasionally intro- 

 duced and extended on the sides of spacious 

 lawns, serving by way of boundaries, being 

 backed next the lawns with shrubs and low trees, 

 disposed irrcgularlv ; and if they be carried in an 

 oblique direction, the lawns w ill widen gradu- 

 allv, anil the prospects be more pleasing. Ave- 

 nues may also be admitted at some distance from 

 either the ends or back fronts of the dwelling*, 

 in either of which situations they may be ex- 

 tended towards any common road or village, 

 serving as the ordinary entrance to the habita- 

 tion, or merely by way of ornament. 



Extensive avenues should always be planted 

 with the stateliest trees, an assemblage of the 

 different sorts of which effects the most agree- 

 able variety. The width of the avenue in such 

 eases should seldom he less than sixty feet; and 

 when it is to be extended any considerable 

 length, a hundred feet is not too much ; as 

 when the trees grow up the branches on the 

 opposite sides continue to approach each other, 

 which bv degrees greatly contract the views ; so 

 i hat, if a considerable width be not at first al- 

 lowed, the avenues in time appear narrow and 

 confined. The trees in the rows on the sides 

 should be planted at least thirty feet distant from 

 each other, that they may have full scope to 

 display their heads, and each sort exhibit itself 

 conspicuously, according to its natural form and 

 habit. 



The sorts of trees most proper for this pur- 

 pose are those of the deciduous tribe, as the 



