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ttfe about fix or (even Feet high, 

 and produce great Quantities of 

 flowers. Thefe may alfo be plant- 

 ed to, cover Seats in Wildernefs- 

 cjuarters, that arc defigned for Shade; 

 to which Furpofe thefe Plants are 

 very well adapted ; requiring little 

 more Care than to train their 

 Branches regularly at firft, after 

 which they will maintain themfelves 

 Very well. 



Thefe Plants are propagated by 

 laying down their Branches (as is 

 practis'd for Vines), which in one 

 Year's time will take Root, provi- 

 ded the Layers are chofen from the 

 Shoors of the fame Year's Growth; 

 for if the older Branches are laid 

 down, they feldom take Root ; or 

 if they do, it is commonly two 

 Years before they will be fit to cut 

 cfr from the old Plants. The beft 

 Time for making thefe Layers is 

 about the Beginning of October, 

 when the Plants have done mooting ; 

 which if rightly performed, the 

 Layers will have taken good Root 

 by that time Twelve-month, and 

 may then be remov'd to the Places 

 where they are delign'd to remain ; 

 cr into a Nurfery-bed, where they 

 may grow a Year or two ; but whea 

 thefe are removed to the Places 

 where they are to ftand, you muft 

 ©bferve to lay a little Mulch upon 

 the Surface of the Ground round 

 their Roots, and to water them 

 gently in dry Weather. In two 

 Years after planting they will make 

 very ftrong Shoots, which mould be 

 train'd up to Stakes, that they may 

 not trail upon the Ground ; which 

 would fpoil their flowering, and 

 render them very unfightly. From 

 this time they will require no farther 

 Care, than to cut out every other 

 .Year the decay 'd Branches ; and in 



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the Spring, to ftiortenfuchBranchej 

 as may have grown too long and 

 rambling from the Places where they 

 are planted. 



Thefe alfo may be rais'd from 

 Seeds, which mould be fown either 

 as foon as ripe, or very early in the 

 Spring, in a Bed of fre(h light 

 Earth, or in Pots or Boxes filPd with 

 fome Earth ; becaufe the Seeds of 

 moll of thefe Plants remain in the 

 Ground until the fecond Spring be- 

 fore they appear, efpecially if they 

 were not fown in Autumn. When 

 the Plants came up, they muft be 

 carefully clean'd from Weeds ; and 

 in very dry Weather frequently wa- 

 ter'd ; and in the fucceeding Spring 

 they mould be tranfplanted out into 

 Nurfery-beds, where they may re- 

 main two Years longer ; by which 

 time they will have arriv'd at 

 Strength to flower, and may then be 

 remov'd to the feveral Places whera 

 they are to remain. 



CLETHRA. 



The Characler: are ; 



The Empahment of the. Flowers 

 confifts of Jive oval concave Leaves: 

 the Flower hath alfo five oblong Pe- 

 tals, which extend beyond the Em- 

 palement : the Poinfal is fituated in 

 the Centre of the Flower, having a 

 trifid Stigma, and is attended by ten 

 Stamina, which are fir etched beyond 

 the Flower, and are covered with 

 Summits : the Point al aftervjard be- 

 comes a roundijh Fruit, opening in three 

 Cells, and filled with fmall angular 

 Seeds. 



We have but one Sort of this 

 Shrub ; viz. 



Clethra. Flor. Virg. 



This Shrub is figured by Dr. 

 Plukenet, under the Title of Aim- 

 folia Americana j "err at a, fori bus pen- 

 tape talis a I bis in f pic am difpofitis* 



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