the ro6ts as entire as poflible ; then with your knife 
you fhould prune off ail the very i mall fibres 5 and 
ir there are any which have a tendency to root down- 
right, fuch roo^s fhould be fhortened ; then having 
thus prepared the plants, you fhould draw a line 
acrofs the ground intended to be planted, and with 
your fpade open a trench thereby exactly ftrait, into 
•which you fhould place them at the diftance before- 
mentioned, fetting them exactly upright •, and then 
put the earth in clofe to them, filling up the trench, 
and with your foot prefs the earth gently to the 
roots of them, obierving not to difplace them fo as 
to make the rows crooked, which will render them 
unfightly •, thefe plants fhould by no me^ns be head- 
ed, or pruned at top, which will weaken them, and 
caufe them to produce lateral branches, and thereby 
fpoil them. 
If the winter fhould prove very cold, it will be of 
great fervice to your young flocks, to lay fome mulch 
upon the furface of the ground near their roots, which 
will prevent the froft from penetrating the ground, fo 
as to hurt the tender fibres which were produced af- 
ter planting *, but you fhould be careful not to let it 
lie too thick near the Items of the plants, nor remain 
too Ipng, left the moifture fhould be prevented from 
penetrating to the roots of the plants, which it often 
does, where there is not due care taken to remove it 
away as foon as the froft is over. 
In the lumrner feafon you muft always obferve. to 
hoe and deftroy the weeds, which, if permitted to re- 
main in the Nurfery, will greatly weaken and retard 
the growth of your flocks ; and, the fucceeding years, 
you fhould obferve to dig up the ground every fpring 
between the rows, which will loofen it fo, as that the 
fibres may eafily ftrike out on each fide, and the 
weeds will thereby be deftroyed •, you fhould alfo ob- 
ferve, where any of the flocks have fhot out lateral 
branches, to prune them off, that they may be en- 
couraged to grow upright and fmooth. 
The fecond year after planting, fuch of the flocks as 
are defigned for dwarf trees will be fit to bud, but 
thofe which are defigned for flan dards, fhould befuf- 
f'ered to grow fix or feven feet high before they are 
budded or grafted. The manner of budding and 
grafting being fully deferibed under their refpe&ive 
heads, I fhall not repeat them in this place, nor need 
I fay any thing more of treating thefe trees after bud- 
ding, that being alfo treated of under the feveral ar- 
ticles of fruits •, I fhall only add, that thole flocks 
which were budded in the fummer, and have failed, 
may be grafted the following fpring, but Peaches and 
Neftarines never take well from grafts, thefe fhould 
therefore be always budded. 
The ground you intend for the Flower-nurfery fhould 
be well fituated to the fun, but defended from ftrong 
winds, by plantations of trees or buildings, and the 
foil fhould be light and dry ; which muft always be 
obferved, efpecially for bulbous -rooted flowers, which 
are defigned to be planted therein, the particulars 
of which are exhibited under the feveral articles of 
flowers. ■ 
In this Nurfery fhould be planted the offsets of all 
your bulbous-rooted flowers, where they are to re- 
main until they become blowing roots, when they 
fhould be removed into the pleafure-garden, and 
planted either in beds or borders, according to the 
goodnefs of the flowers, or the management which 
they require. 
You may alfo in this ground raife the feveral forts of 
bulbous-rooted flowers from feed, by which means 
new varieties may be obtained ; but moft people are 
difeouraged from fetting about this work, from the 
length of time before the feedlings will come to 
flower : however, after a perfon hath once begun, and 
conftantly continued fowing every year, after the par- 
cel firft fown has flowered, the regular fucceffion of 
them coming annually to flower, will not render this 
method fo tedious as it at firft appeared. 
The feedling Auriculas, Polyanthufes, Ranunculufes, 
Anemonies, Carnations, &c. fhould be railed in this 
Nurfery, where they fhould be preferred until they 
have flowered, when you fhould . mark all fuch as are 
worthy of being tranfplanted into the flower-garden, 
which fhould be done in their proper feafons for it 
is not fo well to have all thefe feedling fiowTT 
poled to public view m the flower-garden, becaufe 
it always happens, that there are great numbers of 
ordinary flowers produced amongft them, which will 
make but an indifferent appearance in the pleafure- 
garden. 
NUX A V EL LAN A. See Corylus. 
NUa JUGLANS. See Juglans. 
NUX VESICARIA. See Staphylodendron 
NYCTANTHES. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1 6. Jafmi- 
num, Raii IVfeth. Plant. Arabian Jafmine... 
The Characters are, 
The empalement of the flower is cylindrical , permanent, and 
of one leaf , cut into eight or ten acute figments. The flower 
is oj the faher-Jhape, of one leaf with a cylindrical tube 
longer than the empalement , cut into eight or ten fegments at 
the top , which flpread open . It hath two flmall awl-Jhaped 
flamina , fituated at the bottom of the tube , terminated by 
erebl fummits , and one rmndiflo deprejfed germen , fupport- 
ing a Jingle jlyle the length of the tube , crowned by a bifid 
erebl ftigma. The germen afterward becomes a roundijh 
berry with two cells , each containing a large roundijh feed . 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fection of 
Linnasus’s fecond clafs, which includes thefe plants 
whofe flowers have two flamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
t. Myctantmes (Sambac) caule volubiii, foliis fubova- 
tis acutis. Iftort. Upial. a. Nybianthes with a winding 
ftalk and acute leaves. Jafminum Arabicum. Cluf. Cur. 
3. The Arabian Jafnine. 
2. Myctanthes (Hirfuta) petiolis pedunculifque villo- 
us. Lin. Sp. Plant. 6 . Nybianthes with the foot-ftalks of 
the leaves and flowers hairy. Jafminum Indicum bac- 
ciferum, flore albo majore, noftu olente. Com. Hort. 
Mai. Indian berry-bearing Jafmine , with a larger white 
flower , fuelling by night. 
The firft fort grows naturally in India, from whence it 
has been formerly brought to the iilands in America, 
where the plants are cultivated for ornament p this 
rifes with a winding ftalk to the height of fifteen or 
twenty feet, fending out many fmall branches, gar- 
nifhed with oval fmooth leaves near three inches long, 
and almoft two broad, of a light green, Handing op- 
fite on fhort foot-ftalks, ending in acute points. The 
flowers are produced at the end of the branches, and 
alfo upon the fide fhoots, upon fhort foot-ftalks ; each 
generally fuftain three flowers, the two lower being op- 
pofite, and the middle ones longer: thefe have cylindri- 
cal empalements, which are fhort, and are cut almoft 
to the bottom into eight narrow fegments. The tube of 
the flower is narrow, about half an inch long, and is 
cut at the top into eight obtufe fegments, which ex- 
pand quite flat ; they are of a pure white, and have 
a moft agreeable odour, fomewhat like the Orange- 
flower, but fweeter ; thefe flowers, when fully blown, 
drop out of their cups upon, being fhaken, and fre- 
quently fall in the night, fo that when the plants are 
in full flower, the place under them is often covered 
with flowers in the morning, which fo.on change to a 
purplifh colour. The plants continue flowering great 
part of the year, when they are kept in apireper tem- 
perature of warmth. 
There is a variety of this fort with very large double 
flowers, having a moft agreeable odour, which grows 
naturally at Malabar, where the. women firing the 
flowers to hang round their necks, and by way of 
ornament. This fort was, fome years paft, growing 
in the gardens at Hampton-Court, but was after- 
ward loft, with many other rare plants, by the igno- 
rance of the gardener ; and, for feveral years paft, 
was only known to grow in the gardens of the Duke 
of T ufcany in Europe, who kept a conftant guard 
over the plants, fo that neither cuttings or layers 
might be taken from them, fo as to be propagated 5 
but I have lately received a plant of this ion, which 
was brought from the Malabar coaft, with feveral other 
rare 
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