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Trees : thefe grow to the fame 

 Height with our common Female 

 Dogberry, and make a much better 

 Appearance : the Shoots of the fixth 

 Sort are of a beautiful, red Colour 

 in Winter; and in Summer the 

 Leaves being large, and white, and 

 the Bunches of white Flowers grow- 

 ing at the Extremity of every Branch, 

 renders this Shrub valuable; and in 

 Autumn, when the large Bunches of 

 blue Berries are ripe, they make a 

 fine Appearance. 



The eighth Sort grows upon Che- 

 *viot' Hills in Not thumb er land, and 

 alfo upon the Alps, and other moun- 

 tainous Places in the"Northern Coun- 

 tries ; but this is very difficult to 

 preferve in Gardens : the only Me- 

 thod is, to remove the Plants from 

 the Places of their natural Growth, 

 with good Balls of Earth to their 

 Roots, and plant thsm in a moiit 

 fhady Situation, where they are not 

 annoyed by the Roots of other Plants: 

 in fuch a Situation they may be pre- 

 served two or three- Years ; but it 

 will rarely happen that they will 

 continue longer. 



All the Sorts of Dogwood may 

 be propagated by their Seeds, which, 

 if town in the Autumn loon after 

 they are ripe, will moft of them 

 come up the following Spring ; but 

 if the Seeds are not fown in Autumn, 

 they will l:e a Year in the Ground 

 before the Plants will appear; and 

 when the Year proves dry, they will 

 Sometimes remain two Years in the 

 Ground ; therefore the Place mould 

 not be difturbed, where thefe Seeds 

 are fown, under two Years, if the 

 Plants mould not come up foor.er : 

 when the Plants are come up, they 

 lhould be duly watered in dry Wea- 

 ther, and kept clean from Weeds; 

 and the Autumn following, they 

 may be removed, and planted in 

 in the Nurfery, where they 



may remain two Years ; by which, 

 time they will be fit to tranfplant, 

 where they are to remain for good. 



They are alfo propagated by- 

 Suckers, and laying down of the 

 Branches : moft of the Sorts produce 

 plenty of Suckers, efpecially wherk 

 they are planted on a moilt light 

 Soil, which may be taken off from 

 the old Plants in Autumn, and plant- 

 ed into a Nurfery for a Year or two, 

 and then may be tranfplanted into 

 the Places where they are to remain ; 

 but thofe Plants which are propa- 

 gated by Suckers, rarely have fo 

 good Roots as thofe which are pro- 

 pagated by Layers, and being much 

 more inclinable to (hoot out Suckers, 

 whereby they will fill .the Ground 

 round them with their Spawn, they 

 are not near fo valuable as thofe 

 Plants which are raifed from Lavers. 



CORNUTIA [We have no£//£- 

 HJh Name for this Plant. It is fo 

 called from Comutus, a Phyfician of 

 Paris, who publifned an Hiftory of 

 Canada Plants]. 



The Characters are ; 



// hath a -monopetalous perfonated 

 Flower, whofe upper Lip Jlands ercfi, 

 but the under Lip is divided into tbree 

 Parts : from the Flower-cup arifes 

 the Pointal, which is fixed like a 

 Nail in the binder Part of the Flow- 

 er, which afterwards becomes a fpbe- 

 rical fucculent Berry, ificluding Seeds 

 which are for the moji part kidney- 

 Jhaped. 



There is but one Species of this 

 Plant yet known ; which is, 



Cornutia fiore pyramids to caeru- 

 leo, foliis incanis. Plum. Cornutia 

 with a pyramidal Flower, and hoary 

 Leaves. 



This Plant was firfl: difcovered 

 by Father Plumier in America, who 

 gave it the Name. It is found in 

 plenty in feveral of the Illands in the 

 Wejl-lndies, and at Campecby and 

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