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Compxeat Bopy of GARDENING. 
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NUMB E R XXIV. ae 
For’ ii third Week in. FEBRUARY. 
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| Flowers and ¢ curious is Plants now in their Perfeétion: 
» TREE 
with cfufter’d Flowers on’ fplit’ Branches rifing 
from the Bofoms: of ‘the Leaves. ' 
The Root is woody, igs fond and: divided into 
numerous Parts. - Ga eek | 
‘Numb. XXIV. 
_M I N T. 
oe ae MONG. all our ‘Collections teint few The Stem; in its fatural Placé ‘of Growth, Feb. 
| A Exotics of more Curiofity than. this : . often rifes raked to twelve F oot in Height ; ; but ReesaraAl 
Plate Mint rifing to the Height, and acquiring» moré wfudlly there, and conftantly with us, is — 
XXIV. the F irmnefs of a. robuft Shrub or {mall Tree; branched from thé Bottom, and of the Height but 
Fig.t. and covering the Tops ‘of its divided Branches | of four or five Foot. The Gardener fhould not - 
with Snow-white Flowers. trim it for a Free, becaufe in this other Form it is 
Scarce any Plant has been, in the Uncertainty of | better. A ee is | 
‘Science, tnore ftrangely mif-nam’d. It is indeed to The outer Bark is brown; and, on the fmall 
the Credit of our Pruxener, that he refer’d it | Shoots, has a Tinge of red: the inner Rind 
to the proper Kind, naming it Mentha Canarienfs is green. The young Shoots are {quare in the 
frutefcens ; Shrub Canary Mint. -| Manner of the Stalks of our commen Mints; but 
ComMELINE has made it a J; urnfole : he calls it | as they grow more firm, they loofe their Angles. 
Heliotropium Candrienfe arborefcens : Canary-Ttee | and become round : they have alfo a downy Matter 
Turnfole: and as Errors have generally the For- | hung about them at firft, which falls oF as they 
tune to be beft remember’d, this is the Name by | grow harder. | | 
which it is moft known, altho’ the other occurs in | |The Leaves ftand naturally in Pairs, but not 
a Writer at leaft as familiar to the thodern’ Stu invariably : they have long brownith woody Foot- 
dent. | ftalks; and they are ©f an oval Forth, blunthy 
Linna&uvus vindicates the- Determination of indented at the Edges, and obtufé ac the End. 
PLuKENeT, referting the Plant. to the Mints: he | Their Colour on the upper Side is a fine pale 
adds, as its fpecific Diftinétion, ‘floribis capitatis axi]- | green; and on the under they are white and hoary. : 
laribus.dichotomis, -foliis ovatis crenatis, ‘caule arbore- | “The young Stalks are alfo hairy, and the upper 
feente: Oval and indented-leav’d Tree-Mint; | Side of the Leaves, thio’ lefs diftinétly. 
The Flowers are very numerous, naturally of a 
Snow-white, but fometimes ting’d a little with a 
‘Bluth of red. They are ‘fingly fmall, but they 
ftand colle€ted: in: thick Heads or rounded Clu- 
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