and by the following autumn they will have taken 
root, when they fhould be cut off from the plants, 
and either planted where they are to remain, or into 
a nurfery to be trained up, either for frandards, which 
muft be done by fixing down (takes to the ftem of 
each plant, to which their principal (talk fhould be 
fattened, and all the other muft be cut off-, the prin- 
cipal ftalk muft be trained to the intended height of 
the ftem, then it fhould be fhortened to force out 
lateral branches, and thefe fhould be again flopped to 
prevent their growing too long j by the conftant re- 
peating this as the fhoots are produced, they may be 
formed into a fort of ftandard •, but if any regard is 
had to their flowering, they cannot be formed into 
regular heads, for by conftantiy fhortening their 
branches, the flower-buds will be cut off, fo that few 
flowers can be expedited ; and as it is an unnatural 
form for thefe trees, fo there fhould be but few of 
them reduced to it, for when they are planted near 
other bufhes, in whofe branches the fhoots of the 
Honey fuckles may run and mix, they will flower 
much better, and have a finer appearance than 
when they are more regularly trained •, therefore, 
when the plants are in the nurfery, if two or three 
of the principal fhoots are trained up to the flakes, 
and the others are entirely cut off, they will be fit to 
tranfplant the following autumn, to the places where 
they are to remain ; for though the roots may be 
tranfplanted of a greater age, yet they do not thrive fo 
well as when they are removed while they are young. 
When thefe plants are propagated by cuttings, they 
fhould be planted in September, as foon as the ground 
ismoiftened bv rain. The cuttings fhould have four 
joints, three of which fhould be buried in the ground, 
and the fourth above the furface, from which the 
fhoots fhould be produced. Thefe may be planted 
in rows, at about a foot diftance row from row, and 
four inches afunder in the rows, treading the earth 
clofe to them ; and as the evergreen and late red Ho- 
neyfuckles, are a little more tender than the other forts, 
fo if the ground between the rows where thefe are 
planted, is covered with tanners bark or other mulch 
to keep out the froft in winter, and the drying winds 
of the fpring, it will be of great advantage to the 
cuttings ; and if the cuttings of thefe forts have a fmall 
piece of the two years wood at their bottom, there 
will be no hazard of their taking root. The plants 
which are railed from cuttings, are preferable to thofe 
which are propagated by layers, as they have general- 
ly better roots. 
Thefe plants will grow in almoft: any foil or fituation 
(except the lafl mentioned, which will not thrive 
where they are too much expofed to the cold in win- 
ter) they thrive bell in a loft fandy loam, and will re- 
tain their leaves in greater verdure in fuch ground than 
if planted in a dry gravelly foil, where in warm dry 
feafons their leaves often fhrink, and hang in a very 
difagreeable manner ; nor will thofe forts which natu- 
rally flower late in the autumn, continue fo long in 
beauty on a dry ground, unlefs the feafon fhould prove 
moift and cold, as thofe in a gentle loam, not too 
ftiff or wet. 
There are few forts of flirubs which deferve cultiva- 
tion better than molt of thefe, for their flowers are 
very beautiful, and perfume the air to a great diftance 
with their odour, efpecially in the mornings and even- 
ings, and in cloudy weather, when the fun does not 
exhale their odour, and raife it too high to be percep- 
tible ; fo that in all retired walks, there cannot be 
too many of thefe intermixed with the other flirubs. 
I havefeen thefe plants intermixed in hedges planted 
either with Alder or Laurel, where the branches have 
been artfully trained between thofe of the hedge ; 
from which the flowers have appeared difperfed from 
the bottom of the hedge to the top, and being inter- 
mixed with the ftrong green leaves of the plants which 
principally compofe the hedge, they have made a fine 
appearance ; but the beft forts for this purpofe, are 
the evergreen and long-blowing -Honeyfuckles, be- 
caufe their flowers continue in fuccefiion much longer 
O ' 
than the other forts. 
Thefe plants may be propagated by feeds, but unlefs, 
they are fown in the autumn foon after they are ripe, 
the plants will not come up the flrft year. 
PERIPLOCA. Tourn. Inft. R. XT, 93. tab. 22. 
Lin, Gen. Plant. 267. (aTTejhttAojcji, of wcp), about, and 
•etAojcji, a knitting or plaiting, becaufe this plant en- 
tangles itfelf with itfelf, or any ocher neighbouring 
plants.] Virginian Silk. 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath a fmall permanent empalement , cut into 
five points . The flower has one plain petals cut into five 
narrow fegments, which are indented at their point s, with 
a fmall netlarium going round the center of the pet al, and 
the five incurved filaments which are not fo long as the pe- 
tal, and five fhort ftamina terminated by erect fummits 
which join in a head. It has a fmall bifid germen with 
fcarce any ftyle, crowned by two Jimple fiigmas. The ger- 
men afterward becomes two oblong bellied cap files with one 
cell , filled with feeds crowned with down , lying over each 
other like the fcales of fijh. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fe&ion 
ot Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have five ftamina and two flyles. 
The Species are, 
1. Periploca {Gr<eca) floribus interne hirfutis. Lin. Sp. 
Plant. 2 1 1. Virginia Silk , with flowers hairy on their in~ 
fide. Periploca foliis oblongis. Tourn. .Inft. R. H. 
93. Virginia Silk with oblong leaves. 
2. Periploca (Africana) caule hirfuto. Lin. Sp. Plant. 
2 1 1 . Virginia Silk with a hairy fialk. Apocynum fcan- 
dens, Africanum, vincag- pervincse folio fubincanum. 
Com. Plant. Rar. 18. Climbing African Dogfbane , with 
a hoary Periwinkle leaf. 
3. Periploca ( Fruticofa ) foliis oblongo-cordatis pubef- 
centibus, floribus alaribus, caule fruticofo fcandente. 
Virginia Silk , with oblong heart-fhaped leaves which are 
covered with foft hairs , and flowers proceeding from the 
fides of the fialks , which are fiorubby. Periploca foliis 
cordatis holofericeis, floribus parvis, albis, campani- 
formibus. Houft. MSS. Periploca with heart-Jhoped 
filky leaves , and fmall , white , b ell fh aped flowers . 
The firft fort grows naturally in Syria, but is hardy 
enough to thrive in the open air in England. It hath 
twining fhrubby ftalks, covered with a dark bark, 
which twift round any neighbouring fupport, and will 
rife more than forty feet high, fending out {lender 
branches from the fide, which twine round each other, 
and are garniftied with oval fpear-fhaped leaves near 
four inches long, and two broad in the middle, of a 
lucid green on their upper fide, but pale on their un- 
der, (landing by pairs, upon fhort foot-ftalks. The 
flowers come out toward the end of the fmall branches 
in bunches •, they are of a purple colour, and hairy 
on their infide, compofed of one petal, cut into five 
fegments almoft to the bottom, which fpread open 
in form of a (tar, and within is fituated a neftarium, 
which goes round the five fhort ftamina and germen, 
and is hairy. The germen afterward turns to a dou- 
ble long taper pod or capfule, filled with comprefied 
feeds, lying over each other like the fcales of fifh, 
having a foft down fixed to their top. This plant 
flowers in July and Auguft, but rarely ripens its feeds 
in England. 
It is eafily propagated by laying down of the branches, 
which will put out roots in one year, and may then 
be cut from the old plant, and planted where they are 
to remain. Thefe may be tranfplanted either in au- 
tumn, when the leaves begin to fall, or in the fpring 
before they begin to (hoot, and muft be planted where 
they may have fupport, otherwife they will trail on 
the ground, and fallen themfelves about whatever 
plants are near them. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in Africa ; this hath 
many (lender ftalks, which twine about each other, 
or any neighbouring fupport, arid will rife near three 
feet high, putting out feveral fmall fide branches ■ 
thefe are hairy, as are alfo the leaves, which are oval, 
about 
