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from the feveral Varieties of thefe 

 Flowers, a Bafon or Flower-pot may 

 be furnilhed in Winter, when few 

 other Flowers can be procured ; 

 which will have a pretty F.ffect in 

 Rooms or Halls : but the Stalks of 

 thefe Flowers mull not be placed in 

 Water, nor Ihould any Moifture come 

 to their Flowers, for that will decay 

 them. 



ELM. Fide Ulmus. 



EMERUS, Scorpion Sena^u/go. 

 The Characters are ; 



It bath Leaves like tbofe of the Co- 

 luteal the Flowers are papilionaceous : 

 the Pods are Jlendtr, and contain tvoo 

 er three cylindrical -foaptd Seeds in 

 each. 



The Species are ; 



1. Emerus. Ccefalp. Scorpion 

 Sena, uulgo. 



2. Emeb.us minor. Tourn. The 

 letter Scorpion Sena. 



The fecond of thefe Shrubs is very 

 common in all the Nurferies near 

 London ; but the firft is at prefent 

 in very few Gardens : thefe are both 

 of them extreme fine flowering 

 Shrubs, and are great Ornaments 

 to fmaller Wildernefs - quarters of 

 Shrubs, which are of equal Growth. 

 The firft will rife to the Height of 

 nine or ten Feet, and may be re- 

 duced to a regular Figure, if proper 

 Care be taken while they are young. 

 The fecond feldom rifes above four 

 or five Feet high, but may be train- 

 ed into an handfome Figure. Thefe 

 Shrubs continue flowering through 

 the greateft Part of the Summer; 

 therefore the bed Seafon to prune 

 them, in order to reduce them into 

 Shape, is about the Middle of Sep- 

 tember, foon after they have done 

 lowering : for if you cut them in 

 Summer, it will prevent their flow- 

 ering in Autumn, unlefs it be done 

 in 3%, which will deftroy the firft 



Crop of Flowers, and prevent their 

 producing Seeds. 



Thefe Shrubs are eafily propaga- 

 ted by (owing their Seeds (which 

 they commonly produce in great 

 Plenty) in March, upon a Bed of light 

 fandy Earth, obferving to keep the 

 Bed clear from Weeds ; and in very 

 dry Weather you mull often refreth 

 the Bed with Water, which fhould 

 be given carefully, left the Seeds 

 fhould be wafiYd out of the Ground 

 by haily Watering. When the Plants 

 are come up, you muft continue the 

 fame Care ; and the Michaelmas fol- 

 lowing (if your Plants have thriven 

 well) you may draw out the largeft; 

 wnich may be tranfylanted into a 

 Nurfery, at three F^et Diftance Row 

 from Row, and one Foot afunder in 

 the Rows. This will give room to 

 thofe Plants which are left to grow 

 in the Seed-bed ; in which Place 

 they may remain another Year, when 

 they will alfo be fit to tranfplant in- 

 to a Nurfery ; where they fhould be 

 trained up in the manner you defign 

 them to grow, either in round Heads, 

 or in rude Plants. In one or two 

 Years more they will be fit to plant 

 out, where they are to remain for 

 good : in doing of which you fhould 

 be careful, in taking them up, not 

 to break or wound the Roots : nor 

 fhould they remain too long in the 

 Nurfery before they are tranfplant- 

 ed : for they are fubjecl to fhoot 

 down-right Roots, which, when cut 

 ofF, oft-times proves the Death of 

 the Tree. In all other refpedls it 

 muft be treated like other flowering 

 Shrubs : amongft which, this is com- 

 monly fold at the Nurferies. It de- 

 lights in a dry Soil, and may alfo be 

 propagated by laying down the ten- 

 der Branches ; which will take Root 

 in about a Year's time, and may then 

 be tranfplanted into a Nurfery, and 

 managed 



