May. 
4 
Fig. 2. 
Greek Iflands, a fingle but very beautiful Flower = 
from this the Turkifp 
elegant Varieties. | 
Wich us this Kind js only to bé produced from 
OF GARDENING. 
Gardeners farft raifed the : 3 ) 
sind) SEB B.oy @ ABB Mac iRh Be RsQGedaty show ant aid 
Pl. 34 The Gardeners Surprize would have been too edging a flat Umbell; they sare cltifter’d inte 3 
great if under the Figure of this well known perfectly globular Tuft. 
Shrub, we had wrote the Name Viburnum, but he 
is to be told no other properly belongs to it,, | 
“It is an old Inhabitant of our Gardens, and 
is a Variety from luxuriant Culture, whofe plain 
and fimple Original is nothing more than. the 
common Water Elder. +“ ents ‘4 
The Plant in both States has.been long known, 
and long a Favourite in this, full Beauty in our | 
Gardens. 
ess. Writers of late Times have all defcribed 
it, but under various Names: the more common. | 
Tree of the Genus to which it belongs. is. fuffi- 
ciently known, but it did not occur.ta them | 
that the Chara¢ters were the fame. ... >.>. 
Dopon us refer’d it to the Elders. diftinguith- 
ing it from its Place of Growth, by the Addition 
of Paluftris. ie, 
The Baunines, and the Generality of others 
call it Sambucus aquatica. Linnaeus and many 
others Opulus; but in his latett Writings this 
Author has with. Juttice refer’d it to the J4- 
burnum. He adds as the Diftinction of the Spe-_ 
cies, foliis lobatis, petiolis glandulofis: Viburnum 
with lobated Leaves, placed om glandulous Foot- |. - 
ftalks. : 
This is its proper Name in the common wild 
State, in which the Cluiters of Flowers, are nearly 
flat; in the elegant Condition. to. which Culture. | 
raifes it, wherein we defcribe it, and-wherein the 
Clufters are globular, he calls it Rofe Viburnum. ~ 
The Gardener fees the Englifo Name fhould be 
alter’d, and he will do well hereafter to callh it: 
the Globe flower’d Viburnui. ri het é 
It is an irregular Shrub, of eight Foot in 
Height. 
The Root fpreads 
Bark brown, and the Wood white and brittle. - 
The Leaves are large and. divided into three 
or more Parts, nearly to, the Footftal, which is 
glandulous, : Thefe Parts are called the Lobes of | 
a divided Leaf; and hence the Leaf it&lf is nam’d 
lobated, agi eppes > erregteeeine 3 
The Flowers are extreamly beautiful, but their 
confpicuous Elegance is owing more to their Dif- 
pofition than their fingle Form, for they are 
f{mall. 
In the wild State, a few large, white, difting 
_ Flowers edge the general Umbell,..and the reft 
ing later, and having little Beauty. 
In this elegant Condition to which-Culture has 
raifed it in our Gardens, the Flowers are all of 
the large, diftint, white Kind; and inftead of | 
; ~..s°\ | im Gardens where this Shrub is raifed: a rich 
far, the Stem, is flender, the 
Each is -placed in. its proper Cup, which 
is {mall, dented «in five Places, and perma- 
nee {ssw ‘o‘gitl esghth st ‘int i 
The Body of :the Flower is form’d of a fingle 
Petal, tubular a little way at the Bafé; expanded 
thence in a campanulated Form, ahd cut’ into 
five regular obtufe Segments, which haturally 
turn back at the End. In each ftand ‘five {mall 
Filaments: with ‘rounded Buttons,°and under the 
Receptacle is’a roundifh Rudiment; from which 
inthe Place of a Style rifes a Gland of 4 
like Shape, with ‘three obtufe Heads. — 
The five Threads refer it to the Pentandrous 
pear- 
:| Clafs, the fifth in the Linn @ an Syftem ; and 
the three Heads place it in the third Seétion, in- 
cluding the Trigyuia. | 
Thefe Parts are to be fought in the wild or 
common State of the Plant, where every Flower 
| is followed by a roundith red Berry, containing a 
-fingle hard Seed. The Globular or Garden Kind 
here figured ripens no Fruit, and the other clafs_ 
fical Parts are therefore lefs diftinét and perfect, 
Culture of the GuELDER Rosz:.. 
The Plant in its wild State is Native of our 
own Country, and almoft every other Part of 
Enxrope. The Dutch fire brought it from their 
Meadows into Gardens, and gave it the round 
Fullnefs of the Bunch of Flowers. From them 
it obtain’d’ the common but unartful Gardener’s | 
Name; for Guelder Rofé is properly written Guelder.” 
land Rofe. 
The natural Soil thews what we are to attempt 
| black. 
Mould with fome Moifture is the great Secret. 
This is not enough regarded ; and confequently 
we feldom fee the Flowers in their full Luftre ; 
and the Tuft in its proper Bignefs, i 
_ The Gardeners alfo have found the Way. to - 
make a Merit of this Mifchief : they propagate a 
Variety of this Shrub with painted or Variegated | 
Leaves; and efteem it the beft and fineft Kind - 
this has been ftarved in order to bring it into that 
painted Condition originally ; and fo long as it 
‘Tetains the Colouring of the Leaves, it will alo 
é 
keep to thofe fmaller Tufts of F lowers, which J 
were the natural firft Attendant of ic. 
are {mall, clufter’d together, and yellowith ; open- | 
The ‘Directions of Gardening Writers inks 
“| this; they order the Shrub to be planted in a dry 
and poor Soil, otherwife, they fay, it will return 
to the original State. 
Not only this double or globe tufted Kind is 
| kept 
