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Pl. 50. 
Fig. Qe 
- Buttons: 
panded. at the Rim: the Segments. are oval, 
waved, and pointed. — eer 
From the Bafe of the Flower are ten Filaments, 
long, flender, expanded, and crowned with oval 
In the miidft of thefe rifes from a 
blunt Rudiment, » : 
The. Seed-veflel, which follows, is marked 
with five Ridges, and divided into five Cells, 
in each of which are numerous minute Seeds. 
The ten Filaments refer the Plant to the Decandria 
of. LINN AUS; his, tenth -Clafs; . and the Single. 
Style fhews it one of the ¢° Manogynia. 
Culture of this RHODODENDRON. 
it is a Native of t many of the Northern Parts of | 
Europe, ‘where it thrives beft in a deep rich Soil 
with fome Moitture,. at the Foot of a Hill. AY 
Plant native of fo cold a Climate can demand 
_no particular Care in our Gardens ; only to make | 
it fucceed perfectly, the Place fhould have a little 
Shelter, and it fhould have frequent Waterings. © 
‘The beft Compoft for it is an equal Mixture of 
Garden Mould and Pond Mud; and the Propa- 
gation may either be by Cuttings, or by parting of | 
the Roots, or from Seed. If the Roots be parted, 
‘it muft be done in September, and they fhould not 
. be broke too fmall, 
‘\ 
' is to raife the Plants from Seeds. 
-fe&tly in our Gardens, and they always afford 
the handfomeft Plants. 
_ up. with the Compoft ; 
4 laft Seafon; be fcattered over it. pretty thick, 
The Method iby cuttings is preferable to this, 
and is to be done in May. | 
. The young Branches mutt be taken of “for: 
this Purpofe in a cloudy Evening, and planted 
in a Bedof the Compoft juft directed, where 
‘marked with five Ridges, a | they muft be watered and fhaded carefully till 
~ flender Style, cfewoe with an obtufe Head. 
they have taken Root; but the. beft Way of all 
Thefe ripen per- 
In the laft Week of March let a Bed ‘. Hage 
and det Seeds, faved the 
and with a regular Hand: when the young 
Shoots appear they muft be thin’d and water’d, 
“| and when they have’ fix Weeks Growth’ they 
muft be tranfplanted into another Bed of the 
fame Compoft; in which they are to ftand till 
the following Autumn. 
Then the fineft ‘are ‘to% be felected, and 
planted out in the Flower Garden, taking 
them up with a good Ball.of Earth to the cate 
and obferving to water them frequently till they 
are rooted well ; 
and they will flower in full Perfection. 
The fineft Plants are thofé.of the fecond Year; 
and for this Reafon, the Gardener fhould conftantly ° 
fave nen, and repeat the fowing for a new 
Stock... 
ra The STORAX TREE, 
Medicine has made this Tree Slaps and had } very fragrant; 
‘it lefs Beauty it would ‘be preferved on Ac-. 
‘count of that fragrant Refin which it prodiices. 
in the warmer Countriés  in* ‘great Abundance, 
sand which: is ain- -conftant ‘and fuccefsful Ufe in’ 
% 
the Shops: but were there no fuch. Qualities, . 
‘the elegant Growth of the Tree itfelf would not. 
fail. to recommend it to. ‘their Notice who. ie 
ferve the curious Kinds. .%6e2” 
The Refin has: been long Rlosevn 3 in Meditine,| 
and the Tree familiar among thebotanical Wri- 
ters. 
Shar folio: mali cotone: 
-quince-leav’d:Storax ; but as it‘confticates a Genus 
of which we know no other Species, there needs | 
-to be no Addition‘to the generical Name. 
N##£us preferves this, and calls it fimply, Styrake 
ov It isa Tree of: moderate Growth, robuft, and. 
fall of Branches. 
The Bark‘is'pale, the Wood 
na bat and very ‘finely {cented.. 
-}) The_Leavés, are: large and nilmerous, and are 
difpofed with perfect Irregularity: upon. the Bran- 
ches; they are broad, oval, waved at the Ede oes, 
pointed at the:End; of 8! delicate freth ereen. 
-on the upper Side, and ‘grey or whitifh under- 
neath. : | 
“m: The Flowers: are numerous, “larse, white, and 
Ps » . 
me a we . 
. 
“the ‘Storax “Trée;” and. 
“Lin-) 
they cr an Atos ofthe 
Orange Flower, and they prow {éveral together, 
“as on thofe Trees hanging from all the young, 2 
‘Shoots. - 
, Each Flower has its Gikall etl formed of . 
one Piece, Cylindric at the Bafe, and indented i in 
five Places at the Rim.° | 
The’ Body of the Flower is formed of a fhole 
“Petal, tubular at the Bafe, expanding to the Verge, 
‘and divided deeply into five long, lanceolate, and 
obtufe. Segineits : from the tubular Part of the 
. They. tall it: Styrax,» Styrax Arbor, and'| Flower, ‘near ‘the Bafe, rife twelve or more Fi- 
-laments,~ which have a Tendency to unite into 
‘feveral Clufters at their Bottoms : they are upright, 
-eircularly arrang’d, and crowned with: oblong, 
‘erect Buttons. ag 
From a roundifh Rudiment of a 3 ruit placed 
beneath, there rifes a fingle Style of the Length 
of the Filaments, terminated by a blunt Head. 
The Rudiment ripens into a coated Fruit or. 
Drupe, of a roundifh Form, and containing in one 
Cell two roundifh Kernels, convex on‘ oné Side, 
flat-on the other, -and pointed. 
We have had’ Occafion to obferve in a pre- 
ceding Work, that excellent as Linw aus is in 
his Charaéters of Genera, and diftinftive Names 
of Species, his claffical Diftribution is founded on 
~~ Accidents 
after this they require no more | 
than the common Care of weeding and watering, 
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