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Hypericum frutex. 
VV Dody St, Fobns wort hath two, three, or more woody ftalks, 
which rife about a yard high, befet at certain diftances with 
tufts of fmall green leaves, and among them many {mall flowers, 
white, anda little purple in the middle , this pretty Plant flowereth 
in the end of April, endureth the Water, and isincreafed (as the 
former) by Layers, 
Mezerion. 
pr Bay groweth inathick bufh full of branches, in forne old 
BJ plants rifing three or four foot high, covered with a tough bark, 
and fet with {mall whitifh round-pointed green leaves, which fall 
away in Autumn , the flowers are {mall, confifting of four leaves, 
growing thick and clofe ne Et onthe fides of the new Shoots, 
wherewith they are on all fides covered, which in one (the moft 
- common) are ofa pale blufhcoleur, in another white, andina third 
ofadeep Peach-colour almoft red; thefe flowers are {weet, and may 
be fmelled at diftance ; which being paft, in their places come forth 
many {mall berries, which when they are ripe are of a red colour, 
~ The double- flowered Cherry isinbloffom in April, and the donble- 
flowered Peach in March the Cherry may be grafted in any other 
Cherry-ftock; but the beft way is to make choice of aftock that is 
big enough to hold two grattssws ich-may be grafted near the ground, 
the one graft of this, andthe other of the Flanders Cluffer- 
which growing up together, planted againft a wall, the branches = 
“rermixed and nailed one within the other, fo that after the double 
flowers of the one are paft, the double fruits of the other may fuc- 
ceed, will be a wonder to thofe that do not urderftand by what 
means itis brought to pafs, conceiving both to proceed from one 
kind, The dowble Peach will thrive beft, and bring forth fairer 
flowers, being fpread upon a wall, having been inoculated on an 
_ Apricock-ftock, 
The Balaufiium bringeth forth its beautiful flowers towards the 
end of Anguts itisatender Plant, and maft be either fetin Boxes 
that it may be houfedin Winter, or elfe under a South wall where it 
may have the benefit of the Sua in Somer, and the roots about it co- 
vered with Peafe-ftraw or Litter to keep them warm from freezing in 
the Winter, and the branchesalfo muft be thatched with Broom, or 
fome other provifion, to defend them from nipping frofty air, which 
otherwife will caufe them to die even to the ground, and many times 
never to (pring again: but thofe that are desta to preferve this and 
other tender Plants, and have a convenient houfe to remove them 
into in Winter, then this may be fo handled, and not trufted abroad 
intheopenair, tor that the trouble of houfing and preferving of a 
few, will be almoft as great as that of many ; and new Plants may be 
raifed either from Suckers, which it is apt to yield, or by laying 
Tae 
_down the branches, 
