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foot afunder, and fix inches diftance from each other 
in the rows, obferving to lay a little mulch upon the 
furface of the ground about their roots, as alfo to 
water them in dry weather until they have taken root ; 
after which they v/ill require no farther care, but to 
keep them clear from weeds in fummer, and to trim 
them according to the purpofe for which they are 
defigned. 
In thefe beds they may remain two or three years, 
according as they have grown, when they fhould 
again be removed into a nurfery, placing them in 
rows at three feet diftance, and the plants eighteen 
inches afunder in the rows ; obferving to do it in au- 
tumn, as was before directed, and continue to trim 
them in the fummer feafon, according to the defign 
for which they were intended ; and after they have 
continued three or four years in this nurfery, they may 
be tranfplanted where they are to remain ; always ob- 
ferving to remove them in autumn where the ground 
is very dry, but on cold moift land it is better in the 
fpring. 
Thefe trees are very flow in growing, but yet there are 
many very large trees upon fome barren cold foils in 
divers parts of England. The timber of thefe trees 
is greatly efteemed for many ufes. 
TELEPHIOIDES. See Andrachne. 
TELE PHI UM. Tourn. Inft. R.H.2 4 8.tab. 128. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 339. Orpine. 
The Characters are, 
The empalement of the flower is permanent , compofed of 
five oblong oval leaves which are obtufe , and the length of 
the pet ads. The flower has five oblong obtufe petals, and 
five awl-fhaped flamina which are floorter than the petals , 
terminated by proflrate fummits , with a three-cornered 
acute ger men having no ftyle , crowned by three acute Jpread- 
ing ftigmas. The ger men afterward turns to a floort three- 
cornered capfule with one cell , opening with three valves , 
containing many round feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the third feflion of 
Linnaeus’s firth clafs, which contains thofe plants 
whofe flowers have five flamina, and three ftyies or 
ftigmas. 
We have but one Species of this genus in the Eng- 
lifh gardens, viz. 
Telephium ( Imperati .) Hort. Upfal. 70. Orpine , or Live 
long. Telephium legitimum Imperati. Cluf. Hilt. 77. 
The true Orpine of Imperatus. 
This plant grows naturally in the fouth of France and 
Italy. The root is compofed of ligneous fibres of a 
yellowifh colour, which fpread out wide. The 
branches or ftalks are flender, and trail upon the 
ground ; they are eight or nine inches long, and are 
garnifhed wfith fmall oval leaves of a grayifh colour, 
fmooth and pretty ftiff, which are ranged alternately 
along the ftalk, having one longitudinal nerve run- 
ning through the^middle. The flowers are produced 
at the end of the branches in fhort thick bunches, 
which are reflexed like thofe of the Heliotropium. 
They are compofed of five white petals which fpread 
open and are the length of the empalement, having 
five very flender flamina terminated by yellow fum- 
mits. . This plant flowers in June and July, and the 
feeds ripen in autumn. 
This may be propagated by feeds, which fhould be 
fown in autumn on a bed of frefh light earth, in an 
open fituation j for if they are fown in the fpring, 
the plants will not come up till the following fpring. 
When the plants are come up, they fhould be thin- 
ned fo as to leave them fix or eight inches afunder ; 
and they muft beconftantly kept clear from weeds, 
for if thefe are permitted to grow, they will foon over- 
bear the plants and deftroy them. Thefe plants do 
not traniplant well, io fhould Hand in the place where 
they were fown. In the fummer they will flower, and 
the feeds will ripen in autumn, which will fcatterfoon 
if it is not gathered when ripe ; and, if the ground is 
not difturbed, the plants will come up in plenty, and 
require no other care than to keep them clear from 
weeds. 
TEREBINTH US. See Pistachia. 
T E T 
TERGIFCETOUS PLANTS, are fuch as beat 
their feeds on the backfides of their leaves. 
TER NATE A. See Clitorias 
TERRACES. A Terrace is a bank of earth, 
raifed on a proper elevation, fo that any-^perfon who 
walks round a garden, may have a better profpeft of 
all that lies round him ; and thefe elevations are fo 
necefiary, that thofe gardens that have them not are 
deficient. 
When the Terraces are rightly fituated, they are 
great ornaments for their regularity and opening, ef- 
pecially when they are well made, and their afcent not 
too fteep. 
There are feveral kinds of Terrace-walks : 
1 . The great Terrace, which generally lies next to th# 
houfe. 
2. The fide or middle Terrace, which ds commonly 
raifed above the level of the parterre, lawn, &c, 
3. Thofe Terraces which encompafs a garden. 
As to the breadth of fide Terraces, this is ufually de- 
cided by its correfpondence with fome pavilion, or 
fome little jettee or building ; but moft of all by the 
quantity of fluff that is to fpare for thofe purpofes. 
The fide Terrace of a garden ought not to be left 
than twenty feet, and but very feldom wider than 
thirty. 
As for the height of a Terrace, fome allow it to be 
but five feet high ; but others more or lefs, according 
to their fancies ; but more exaft perfons never allow 
above five or fix feet ; and in a final! garden, and a 
narrow Terrace-walk, three feet ; and fometimes three 
feet and a half high, are fufficient for a Terrace eight- 
teen feet wide, and four feet are fufficient for a Ter- 
race of twenty feet wide ; but when the garden is pro- 
portionably large, and the Terrace is thirty feet wide, 
then it muft be at leaft five or fix feet high. 
The nobleft Terrace is very deficient without fhade, 
for which Elm-trees are very proper ; for no feat can 
be faid to be complete, where there is not an imme- 
diate fhade almoft as foon as out of the houfe, and 
therefore thefe fliady trees fhould be detached from 
the body and v/ings of the edifice. 
TERENE, earthy, or compofed of earth. 
TERRESTRIAL, earthy, or that belongs to 
ear th. 
TETRACE.RA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 604. 
The Characters are. 
The flower has a permanent empalement of fix roundifh 
fpr ending leaves , the three outer are alternate and fmaller 
than the other : it has fix fmall petals which foon fall off, 
and a great number of flamina which are permanent , and 
the length of the empalement , terminated by Jingle fum- 
mits \ it has four oval germen fupporting a fhort awl- 
fhaped ftyle , crowned -by an obtufe ftigma. The germen 
afterward become four oval reflexed capfules, each having 
one cell , opening at the fleam on the upper fide , inclofing one 
roundifh feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fourth fedion 
of Linnteus’s thirteenth clafs, which includes thofe 
plants whofe flowers have many flamina and four 
ftyies. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Tetracera (Volubilis.) Hort. Cliff. 214. Petraea flori- 
bus fpicatis, foliislauri fcabris. Amman. Herb. 518. 
Petr <ea with jpiked flowers, and rough leaves refembling 
thofe of the Bay-tree. 
This plant grows naturally at La Vera Cruz, where 
it was difcovered by the late Dr. Houftoun, who fent 
it to England. It has a woody ftalk which rifes to 
the height of twelve or fourteen feet, covered with a 
gray bark, fending out feveral flender ligneous 
branches which twine about any neighbouring fup- 
port ; they are garnifhed with oblong oval leaves, 
whofe furface are very rough, near fix inches long, 
and two inches and a half broad, flightly indented on 
their edges toward their points, and have , many tranf- 
verfe veins running from the midrib to the edges ; 
they are placed alternate on their branches, Handing 
upon fhort foot-ftalks, of a grayifh colour on their 
upper furface, and brown on their under. The 
flowers 
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