Sept. 
‘Pi. Bo, 
Fig. 3. 
Accidents too flight, and too uncertain, 
It ap- 
“=——— pears in this Inflance: the Styrax is, by his exprefs 
eafily, afford handfome.’Trees. The Method. of 
managing thefe we have ee wered at: large in a 
Obfervation, as well as by its obvious Characters, preceding Part of this Work; 
very nearly related to the Citrus Kind. In that Tree 
the Filaments are numerous, and unite. into.feveral 
Bodiés at their Bafes; it is therefore placed amorig 
the Polyadelphia. 
fame Coalition; yet that Character not being 
perfect, it is placed by the’ Author among the | 
Dodecandria, though the Number. of F atieicen is | 
too great for that Account. 
The Style is fingle, and this- refers” it to the 
Monogynia. 
Dey Bite + ; 3 
ad esa teh 
Culture of the Srvrax TREES 
<i NES 
tin ted aes 
Parts of Europe, 
ahd obtained a foft Refin from the wounded Bat, 
which they kept for medicinal: Purpoles, int 
wardly as a Balfamick and Deobitruent; and ex- 
ternally j in'frefh Wounds. es 
The ‘Tree will live in the ‘opeti Air, but that 7 
is “hazardous : | it iS beft to keep. it in a Pot, 
and: to give it “the Shelter! gr: a : Greén-houle’i in 
Winter. | | ua to on 
ier 
peeked  £ee 
It may be raifed fore Cuttings, or producee 
from Seed ; but a better Way rel either is to F 
order, hic fmall Trees of it from ftaly, in the 
fame Manner as we receive from thence the 
_ Orange and Jafmine Kinds, | 
SOE Sean ate ile Ap ao OAT heer Nj mr mmgese sgh co ee 
There is hazard in raifing it either Way here, 
though it will ftand very el when rooted firm- 
ly; ond as the Trees may be inthis. Manper, 
brought over of the fame Size with the Orange, 
3 
the fame Methods we ufe for thofe will bring 
this . to. fhoot ; re and no Way. will fo | fon, or fo 
rie z oe The | 
This} is a ery handfome Foreft- Free,’ “native of } 
the warmer Parts of “Europe, and of America’s and, | 
very worthily, fow ‘univerfal: in ‘our Plniatins 
The’ Writers _ wit: oF jet Tithe? ahs 
inentionéd ity’ : pia, bias yOGI bas 
cs Bisbee calls it ae ‘ii “i “iti “frit 
racemofo lupilo ae Elm leaved Oftrya with 
Fruit like the Hop. = Si ovat: 
“Micuerr, whe very pictitely ievefhigated its 
Bhisaers; calls"i€ Offrya ' “talite ° carpini «folio 
frutlu lenviore Jive breviore babitiore' . Carpimus | 
leaved Oftrya with ‘ ae longer,” “or rer ‘and 
thicker Prat. 0S giog sboec 
Linwmus’ comprehending’ aa and: the’ tom- 
tion’ Hornbeath “under the’ fame’ “Genus, gives 
them the Name Carpinus; and adds ‘as the Di. 
.: O4asS 
ftinction of this, Sguammis ftrobilorum inflatis : 
Carpinus with the Scales of the Fruit fwoln as 
if inflated. 
This has a Tendency to the 
Per eee ee ee 
pees in the» hotteft Parts of | : 
Syria, and wild in Italy and in France. GAIRDEL | 
found it in the Foreft of St. Baumé, in Provence, 
where the Peafants gave it the Name Aligouper, ; th hey, have. taken good Root. 
: Sie] 
mo ft 3 4 . cae coe 9930 tet were + : } 7 = 
Pea ae:+ ea ea by ek ee bee 3 a watiadnhad v4 F PPhee ES gies 
‘i > “ 
: 2 > Fa oe ¢ * * : 
e Fee oe or Tieei re tis Leg Oe ee > i a eee te 2 > : +s ¢ 
| EO RN BE yp 28 a! avourigiag 
2 : fe, ae . 
4 : 
noidw | 
If any chufe the Method by. C uttings,.a Beas 
Border of.very rich, Earth mutt ber chaiiie forthe 
Purpofe,. and, the Cuttings. muft be planted in the 
ufual Manner, watering them: carefully till they 
are, well rooted, and then removing them into 
Pots, planting one in each, and taking them up 
with a large Ball of the, M ould. 
»oThe.raifingsthem from, Seed is eafier than: this, 
aa _ produces. better. Exees.... The . Timez for. it 
is Autumn.:.the Seeds ripened that Seafon fhould 
be: vafedy and they fhould be fown. in Pots of fine 
Mould, and thofe plunged up to the Rim. ina 
p Park: ~bedey: .- 
JPar ys 
The Seeds will. ie a " eels Ride in. “he | 
rate A a _but when the: young Plants appear they 
mutt be- -planted,_ out in {eparate Pots, and. ag 
plunged into Bark, and. fhaded. “and watered. till 
They may. then be 
by degrees ‘hardened to. the. Air, and. fet.. out 
among the Green-houfe Plants. In Autuma they 
fhould be; taken into» Shelter with the ,Myrtles, 
and, other. Trees. of that Kind; and they. muft 
then. be. allowed. as much Air as the Nature, ae 
the Place will admit. | 
ac eel will, bring ehem.t to flower i in 
open. Ground, te a “warm, Place for rier 3 
and left to take their Chance, 
With the fame Care that 3 is allowed - to other , 
tender Trees which . 
en eee oes 
the fam 
tne iam 
a 
x) 
1€ "1 
fome of thefe will eftablith Shales firmly ; ; ad 
after that they will defy our Winters, and make . 
_a better »Progrels, and Appearance than fuch as 
are houfed, and confined! to Box {mall Limits of 
& PQ 5-5 
P ut 
FS e wet he 
a eee | st BS ‘ i . ‘tf ca 
apd : . Sh 2k ‘i ened mG a ae ed ule fitezsa i2 7 
eae 
FH the Tinie of this eth the Dittindton 
off Fruits were very, i éxptefied. ‘We had‘ tio 
Name for this fingular ‘one of the Oftryay which. 
is’ fotmed. lof 24 Female Cathkin? to this, ‘arid‘all 
others of the fame: Kind, ‘he gives the ‘Nanie 
Strovilass an hich * fully and perfe@tly: erties 
,that Kind of Fruit from all others.i © so°2iw <0 s 
|S Phe Sores. iss largej and Mof <4) -vety®. ‘good 
Form, branched, 
brown on - a Sp and’ apa on the et be 
: Branchess' past to. asda 5 shivib ae’ 
and fhadowy. The Barkvris 
Cie. 
Lois Leaves are'lvery numerous; Sordi atthe. 
Bafe, {matler:to the Point, and :ir régularly noteh: 
ed aboutithe ge Phew cor isa eae and 
pore greening) 21 
* The Flowérs “ate of k two ° Kies Male a and F @4 
pilin on! different ° ‘Parts ‘of ‘the fame Tree, “both 
in the Form of Catkins, and neither confpicudtis, 
| the Female are. followed by the fingular Fruir, 
which, 
oain . 
Sept 
