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many Years. The Thorns of this 

 Sort are very long and flender : the 

 Fruit is (mall, and crowned with 

 Leaves. 



The fifteenth Sort has been lately 

 introduced among us from Italy : 

 this is different from the other Sorts 

 in the Shape and Colour of the 

 Fruit, which is flat, and of a yel- 

 lowiflv-white Colour. This may 

 be propagated by budding or graft- 

 ing it upon the common Hawthorn, 

 and is worthy of a Place in all cu- 

 rious Collections of Trees. 



The feventeenth and eighteenth 

 Sorts are of humblerGrowth, feldora 

 rifmg above five or fix Feet high,and 

 are proper to Intermix with Shrubs 

 of the fame Growth, where, by 

 their different woolly Leaves, to- 

 gether with their Flowers and Fruit, 

 in their Seafons, they add greatly to 

 the Variety of fuch Plantations : 

 they may be eafily propagated by 

 laying down their tender Branches, 

 which, in one Year, will be rooted 

 fuffieiently to tranfplant ; when they 

 may be placed where they are to 

 remain, or planted into a Nurlery, 

 and trained up to regular Heads ; 

 by which Method they will be lefs 

 liable to mifcarry, than if they were 

 placed to remain in the Wildernefs 

 immediately. They may alfo be 

 grafted on the Pear or White- 

 thorn. 



The feventeenth Sort produces 

 great Quantities of Suckers from the 

 .Roots* which may be taken oft in 

 the Spring, and tranfplanted into a 

 Nurlery two or three Years, until 

 they have acquired Strength enough 

 to tranfplant for good, where they 

 are to remain ; by which Method 

 they may be greatly increafed : but 

 the Plants thus raifed will be more 

 {ubjecl.to produce a great Number 

 ©f Slickers from their Roots, which, 



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if not yearly taken off, will grow 

 up into a Confufion, and ftarve the 

 old ones. 



They produce their Flowers in 

 April and May, and their Fruits are 

 commonly ripe in Augufi : but thefe j 

 are of no Ufe, except to propagate 

 the Species ; which being a tedious 

 Method, and the Layers taking 

 Root fo freely, renders it rrot worth 

 pra&ifing ; tho' it may happen, that 

 fome Varieties may be obtained this 

 way; as is often found in many other 

 Trees and Shrubs, 



METHONICA. Vide Gloriofa. 



MEUM, Spignel. 

 The Characters are ; 



// is an umbelliferous Plant , ivitb 

 'very narrow Leaves : the Seeds are 

 large, oblong, and ftriatcd: to which 

 may be added, It bath a perennial 

 Root. 



This Plant is propagated in the 

 Phyfic-gardens, for medicinal Ufe; 

 but is very feldom found in other 

 Gardens. It may be propagated by 

 Seeds, which mould be fown in Au- 

 tumn, foon after they are ripe ; and 

 in the Spring the Plants will appear, 

 when they mould be carefully clear- 

 ed from Weeds ; and in very dry 

 Weather mull be refrefhed with 

 Water. In this Place the Plants may 

 remain until theAutumn following, 

 when they may be tranfplanted in= 

 to a fhady Border about a Foot 

 afunder, where they may remain for 

 Ufe. They may alfo be propagated 

 by parting their Roots in Autumn, 

 which is the moll expeduious Me- 

 thod. 



MEZEREON. Fide Thymehea. 

 MILIUM, Millet. 



The Characters are ; 

 // hath a loofe divided Panicle i 

 and eath fingle Flower bath a Calyx, 

 confining 'cf • Leaves, which are 

 injtead oj Petals, to prated the Stami- 

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