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The three fir ft Sorts commonly 

 grow eighteen or twenty Feet high, 

 and are very great Ornaments to 

 Quarters of flowering Trees in the 

 Spring during their flowering Sea- 

 fon, if rightly difpos'd amongft 

 Trees of the fame Growth. The 

 fird and fecond Sorts are more com- 

 mon than the third ; but the third is 

 much preferable to the fecond, the 

 Flowers of that growing much clofer 

 upon the Bunches, and are of a finer 

 purple Colour, and the Trees gene- 

 rally produce them in greater Quan- 

 tities ; fo that this, and the white 

 Sort, being regularly intermixed, af- 

 ford an agreeable Variety, tho' the 

 fecond may be admitted to add a 

 Luftre to the other. 



Thefe Plants are eafilypropagated 

 by Suckers, which they fend forth 

 in great Plenty from the old Plants. 

 Thefe mould be taken off in Ofiober, 

 and planted into a Nurfery, where 

 they may remain three or four Years; 

 after which time they will be fit to 

 tranfplantinto the Wildernefs, where 

 they are to continue : they will re- 

 quire no other Culture than to dig 

 the Ground about them every Year, 

 and take off the Suckers which are 

 produced from their Roots ; which, 

 if fuffered to remain, would fcarve 

 the old Plants, and grow up into an 

 irregular Thicket. 



As thefe Plants are always propa- 

 gated by Suckers, their Roots are 

 always difpofed to fend out great 

 Plenty of Suckers again ; therefore 

 where there is not Care taken to 

 clear away thefe every .Autumn, they 

 will grow into a Thicket, and the 

 eld Pian:s will be ftinted in their 

 Growth, and not appear fo beauti- 

 ful : but altho' this Method of pro* 

 pagating thefe Plants is by much the 

 eafteft, yet I would choofe that of 

 iaymg down the Branches, becauie 



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the Plants fo raifed will not be liablft 

 to produce Suckers ; therefore are 

 much to be preferred, efpecially for 

 frrfall Gardens. 



Thefe Trees thrive belt on light 

 rich Ground, where there is a Depth 

 of Soil ; for on ftiong (hallow Soils 

 they grow moffy, and make little 

 Progrefs. Where thefe are planted 

 in a good Soil, they will grow up- 

 ward of twenty Feet high, and pro- 

 duce great Numbers of Flowers ; 

 but in ftiff mallow Ground they fel- 

 dom arrive to half that Height ; nor 

 do they produce many Flowers. 



During the time thefe Shrubs are 

 in Flower, there are very few others 

 comparable to them for Beauty or 

 Sweetnefs ; the Leaves being large, 

 and of a beautiful Green, fet off the 

 Flowers greatly : but thefe feldoni 

 continue in Beauty longer than eight 

 or ten Days, unlefs the Seafon proves 

 cool and moiil, when they will re- 

 main a Fortnight or longer. 



The two variegated Sorts are pre- 

 ferved by fome Perfons, who delight 

 in ftriped Plant?, as Curiofities ; but 

 they have no great Beauty in them ; 

 for in Summer-time, when thefe 

 Plants arc free of Growth, their 

 white and yellow Blotches do not 

 appear very plain ; and when they 

 do, it appears more like a Diilemper 

 in them, than any reai Beauty. 

 Thefe may be propagated by bud- 

 ding or inarching them upon the 

 common Sort. 



The privet-leav'd Lilacs are of 

 humbler Growth than thofe before- 

 mention'd, ftldom rifing above fix 

 or feven Feet high ; but are very 

 great Ornaments in fmall Wilder- 

 nefs-quarters of flowering Shrub.% 

 where being intermix'd with other 

 Shrubs of the fame Growth, they 

 afford an agreeable Profpecl. Thefe 

 produce their Flowers in much long- 

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