will greatly promote their taking new root ; however, 
you muft carefully defend them from the great heat 
of the fun, which is injurious to them when frefh re- 
moved ; but when they have taken root, you may ex- 
pofe them by degrees to the open air. If you fuffer 
the pots to remain plunged all the fummer, it will 
preferve the earth therein from drying fo fait as it 
would do, if they were fet upon the ground. 
In Odober you fhould again remove thefe plants into 
fhelter, or elle plunge their pots into the ground un- 
der a warm hedge, where they may be protected from 
the cold north and eaft winds ; and in the fpring fol- 
lowing you muft Ihift the plants into pots a fize larger, 
taking away fome of the earth from the outfide of the 
ball, and adding fome frelh, which will promote their 
growth ; and fo continue to manage them as was be- 
fore directed, until you plant them out in the places 
where they are deligned to remain ; which fhould not 
be done till they are four or five years old, by which 
time they will be ftrong enough to bear the cold of 
our common winters. 
The reafon for my direding thefe plants to be pre- 
ferved in pots until they are planted put for good is, 
becaufe they are difficult to tranfplant, and being 
tender will require fome fhelter while young ; and 
whoever obferves the method here laid down, will 
find the plants fo managed to gain two years growth 
in fix, from thofe raifed in the open air, and be in 
lefs danger of being deftroyed ; and as the trouble 
and expence in raifing them this way is not great, fo 
it is worth pradifing, fince in a few years the trees 
will recompenfe the trouble. 
The timber of this tree is of a reddifli colour, and 
very fweet, and is commonly known in England by 
the name of Cedar Wood ; though there are divers 
forts of wood called by that name, which come from 
very different trees, efpecially in the Weft-Indies, 
where there are feveral trees of vaftly different ap- 
pearances and genera, which have that appellation : 
it is this wood which is ufed for pencils, as alfo to 
wainfcot rooms, and make ftair-cafes, it enduring 
longer found than moft other forts of timber, which, 
perhaps, may be owing to fome extreme bitter tafte 
in the refill, with which the tree abounds ; for it is 
very remarkable, that the worms do not eat the bot- 
toms of the veflels built with this wood, as they do 
thofe built with Oak ; fo that the vefiels built with 
Cedar are much preferable to thofe built with any 
other fort of timber, for the ufe of the Weft-India 
feas, but they are not fit for fhips of war, the wood 
being fo brittle as to fplit to pieces with a cannon 
ball. 
The Jamaica Juniper is more impatient of cold dian 
the Bermudas, fo will not live through the winter in 
the open air in England, and the plants muft be pre- 
ferved in pots and houfed in the winter ; this is pro- 
pagated by feeds, in the fame way as the Bermudas 
Cedar ; but if the pots are plunged into a moderate 
hot-bed the fecond fpring after the feeds are fown, it 
will bring up the plants fooner, and they will have 
more time to get ftrength before winter. 
All the other forts are hardy enough to live in the 
open air, fo are very well worth propagating, as they 
will add to the variety of Evergreen plantations ; fome 
of the forts will rife to a very confiderable height, fo 
may prove to be ufeful timber, and may be adapted 
to luch foils as will not fuit many other trees. 
The common Savin fhould not be negledted, becaufe 
it is To very hardy as never to be injured by the fevereft 
froft ; and as this fpreads its branches near the ground, 
fo if the plants are placed on the borders of woods, 
they will have a good effect in winter, by fcreening 
the nakednefs of the ground from fight. 
All thefe forts are propagated by their feeds, which 
may be fown in the fame way as the common Juniper, 
aiyd the plants afterward fo managed; and moft of the 
forts may be propagated by cuttings, which, if planted 
in autumn in a ffiady border will take root ; but 
thofe plants which are raifed from cuttings will never 
grow fo upright, nor to fo large a fize as the plants 
which are raifed from feeds j fo that when thefe carl 
be procured, it is much the better method, but the 
other is frequently p raft i fed on thofe forts which do 
not perfedt their feeds in England. 
As feveral of thefe forts grow to the height of eighteen 
or twenty feet, the procuring as many of the forts as 
can be gotten from the countries of their growth, will 
be adding to the variety of our Evergreen plantations, 
which cannot be too much propagated in England, 
where, in general, our winters are temperate enough 
for them to thrive to advantage ; and as the forts 
which are a little more tender than the others obtain 
ftrength, they will be in lefs danger of differing by 
fevere winters, as we find by many other plants, which 
were fo tender as not to live in the open air at firft, 
but now defy the fevereft cold of our climate . 
J U S S I JE A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 47S. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a fmall permanent empale merit, divided Into five 
fegnients at the top, fitting upon the germen. "The flower 
has five roundijh [presiding petals, and ten Jhort fender 
flamina, terminated by roundijh furnmits. The oblong ger- 
men fupports a Jlender ftyle, crowned by a flat filigma , marked 
with five ftripes. The germen afterward becomes a thick 
oblong capfule, crowned by the empalement , which opens 
lengthways , and is filled with fmall feeds . 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedlion of 
Linn$us’s tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Monogynia, 
which includes the plants whofe flowers have ten fta- 
mina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Jussizea ( Suffmticofa ) ere&a villofa, floribus tetrape- 
talis, decandriis feffiiibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 555. Up- 
tight hairy Jufifiiaa, with flowers fitting clofie to the flalks f 
having four petals and ten flamina. Lyfimachia Indica 
non pappofa, fiore luteo minimo, filiquis caryophyl- 
lum aromaticum ^mulantibus. H. L. 396. Indian 
Primrofe with a very fmall yellow flower, and pods re- 
fembling Cloves. 
2. Jussi/EA (Pubefcens) villofa, caule erecto ramofo, fio- 
ribus pentapetalis, decandriis feffiiibus. Hairy Jnjfiaa 
with an eredl branching ftalk , flowers having five petals, 
and ten flamina which fit clofie to the ftalk. Lyfimachia 
lutea eredta, non pappofa major, folds hirfutis, frudhi 
caryophylloide. Sloan. Cat. Jam. 85. Telbw upright 
larger Tree-Primrofe with hairy leaves , and a fruit like 
Cloves. 
3. JussiiEA ( Eredla ) erecta glabra, floribus tetrapetalis 
odlandris feffiiibus. Flor. Zeyl. 170. Smooth upright 
JuJjicea with four petals, and eight flamina to the flowers, 
which Jit clofie to the ftalk. Lyfimachia lutea non pap- 
pofa, eredta, foliis glabris, fructu caryophylloide. 
Sloan. Cat. Jam. 8 5. Tellow upright Tree-Primrofe with 
fimooth leaves, and a fruit like Cloves. 
4. Jussizea ( Onagra ) caule eredla ramofo glabro, flori- 
bus tetrapetalis oftandris feffiiibus, foliis lanceolatis. 
Juflitea with an upright , branching, frnooth ftalk, flowers 
having four petals, and eight flamina fitting clofie to the 
ftalk, and fpear-Jhaped leaves. Onagra foliis perficarise 
amplioribus, parvo fiore luteo. Plum. Cat. 7. Tree- 
Primrofe with a large Arfefmart leaf, and a fmall yellow 
flower. 
5. Jussi/ea ( Hirfiuta ) caule erefito fimplici hirfuto, fo-- 
liis lanceolatis, floribus pentapetalis decandris feffiiibus. 
Jujffiua with a Jingle, upright , hairy ftalk, fpear-Jhaped 
leaves, and flowers which have five petals, and ten [la- 
mina flitting clofie to the ftalk. Onagra erecta, caule ru- 
bro hirfuto, foliis oblongis, fiore magno luteo. Houft. 
MSS. Upright Primrofe with a hairy leaf of a reddifib 
colour , oblong leaves, and a large yellow flower. 
The firft fort grows naturally at Campeachy, from 
whence the feeds were fent me by the late Mr. Robert 
Millar ; this rifes with afhruhby ftalk near three feet 
high, fending out feveral fide branches, which are gar- 
niffied with oblong hairy leaves placed alternate. The 
flowers come out from the fide of the (talks kingly, 
having ffiort foot-ftalks ; they have four fmall yellow 
petals with eight ftamina thefe fit upon the germen, 
which afterward becomes an oblong feed-veffel, crown- 
ed by the four-leaved empalement, and has a great re- 
femblance 
