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the Spring of the Year ; whicli by 

 the fuccec^ing Spring will have 

 made Roots fufficient to be tranf- 

 planted. The befl; Seafbn for this 

 Work is juft before the green 

 Leaves come out. 



From this Tree is was formerly 

 luppos'd that the Gum Benjamin 

 was produced ; but 'tis now gene- 

 rally otherwife believed j for that 

 Gum is brought from the E^Ji- 

 Jndies: nor is it certainly known 

 jfrom what Tree or Plant it is pro- 

 duced ; And this Tree being a Na- 

 tive of the Wejl-Indies, if any fuch 

 Gum had been produc'd from the 

 Trees, it would have been more 

 certainly known, and we fhouid 

 have been furnifhed from thence 

 with the Gum long before this 

 Time. 



BERBERIS ; the Barberry or 

 Pipperidge Bufh. 



The Characters are 5 



It isfet roith (loarp Trickles: The 

 Leaves are oblong, and ferrated on 

 the Edges : The Flowers confift of fix 

 'Leaves, -which expand in Form of a 

 JLofe, and are of a yellow Colour : 

 The Fruit is long, of an acid Tafle, 

 mid for the mofi fart of a red Co- 

 lour, and grows in Clujiers hayiging 

 down: The Bark of the Tree is whi- 

 tifh. 



The Species are; 



1. Berberisj Dumetorum. C.B. 

 The common Barberry. 



2. Berberis ', fine Nucleo. C. B, 

 ISarberry without Stone. 



3. Berberis; latijjimo folio -, Ca- 

 nadenfis, H. R. P. The broad- 

 leav'd Canada Barberry. 



4. Berberis; fruciu albo. The 

 white Barberry. 



The firft of thefe Sorts is very 

 common in England, being often 

 plinred for Hedges j but the beft 

 Method to have large good Fruit, 

 h to plant them eight or ten Feet 



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aiPjnder, keeping their Middles thin, 

 and free from dead Wood ; but 

 their Fruit being for the moft part 

 produced towards the Extremity of 

 their Branches, you fhouid be Spa- 

 ring in (hortning them ; and when 

 this is done, it fhouid be at Michael- 

 mas, when their Leaves begin to 

 decay. 



The fecond Sort, I believe to be 

 only an accidental Variety of the 

 firft j for young Plants taken from 

 old Trees, which produce Fruits 

 without Stones, are rarely found to 

 prove right; and it hath been ob- 

 ferv'd, that none but old Trees 

 produce their Fruits fb, nor are all 

 the Fruits upon the fame Tree 

 without Stones. That Sort with 

 white Fruit feems not to differ from 

 the common, except in the Colour 

 of the Fruit. 



The Canada Barberry hath been 

 of late Years introduced amongfl: 

 us. The Leaves of this Tree are 

 larger than thofe of the common 

 Sort; but how its Fruit differs from 

 the common I can't at prefent fay, 

 having not feen any produc'd in 

 England, although the Tree is 

 equally as hardy as the common 

 Sort. 



Thefe are all propagated from 

 Suckers taken from Roots of the 

 old Plants, which generally furnilh 

 them in abundance : Or they may 

 be rais'd from Seeds, or by bying 

 down their Branches, which will 

 in one Year take fufficient Root to 

 be tranfplanted : They delight in a 

 ftrong loamy Soil, and may be 

 planted either in October or Fe- 

 bruary. 



BETA ; the Beet. 



The Characters are ; 



It hath a thick fiefl)j Root : The 



Flowers have no vifible Leaves, but 



have many Stamina or Threads^ 



which are colleded into a Globe: 



The 



