Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
ten to fifteen, or twenty feet high; ornamented with 
large, fpear-fhaped leaves and bundles of largiih flow¬ 
ers, dark coloured, of fix petals, alternately large and 
fmall, containing many minute ftamina and (,: >gmas; 
and fucceeded by large, oblong, or ovalifh, 10ft, yel¬ 
low fruit, having many oval feeds; but the fruit and 
feeds feldom ripen in this country, being obtained 
moftly from America, and by which the trees are 
raifed. 
Generic Characters. —Hermaphrodite flowers ; the 
calyx three concave, pointed leaves.—Corolla, or 
flower, fix petals, alternately larger and fmaller.— 
Stamina, many very fmall filaments, crowned with 
anthera.—Piftillum, an oval germen at the bottom, 
no flyles, but many ftigmas ; and the germen be¬ 
comes a large, oval or oblong, fcaly-rinded fruit, of 
one cell, furnifhed with many lmooth, oval, or roundifh 
feeds. 
The hardy Species are, 
I. An non a triloba , Three-lobed or Trifid-fruited 
Annona, or Common Papaw. 
A fmall tree, ten to fifteen or fixteen feet high ; 
the leaves (middling-large) fpear-fhaped, and trifid 
fruit, fomewhat pear-fhaped inverted. — Native of 
Carolina. 
2. Annona glabra. Smooth-fruited Annona. 
A larger tree ; the leaves ( largijh, broad ) fpear- 
fhaped, ov2te ; large, conical, fmooth fruit.—Native 
of Carolina. 
Both thefe fpecies of Annona are in eftimation as 
ornamental trees to adorn fhrubberies, &c. in affem- 
blage with other deciduous kinds; are moderately 
hardy after the firft two or three years of their 
young growth, and may then be planted in any 
warm, dry fituation. 
Thefe trees merit admittance in all curious fhrub- 
bery plantations of the deciduous tribe, in which they 
will effett a very confpicuous variety and ornamental 
appearance : may be had at moft of the nurferies, and 
planted in autumn or fpring. 
They are propagated by feeds, which are commonly 
obtained from America, and fhould be fowed in the 
fpring in a bed of light earth, fome in pots, to have 
fhelter in winter; or if the pots are placed in a hot¬ 
bed, the plants will come up fooner ; and which, when 
of one fummers growth, may be planted, part in pots, 
to have fhelter of a frame in winter, the firft two or 
three years, others planted in a warm fituation in the 
fpring ; and when the whole is advanced two or three 
feet, or more, in growth, may be tranfplanted into the 
fhrubbery, Sec. where they are to remain. 
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Their after-culture in the fhrubbery. Sec. is only to 
give occafional pruning when required, to regulate any 
jiforderly growth, or to cut out decayed wood, &c. 
Aralia, ANGELICA TREE, (Berry-bearing An¬ 
gelica.) 
Clafs and Older. 
Pentandris Pentagynia, 
Fi ve Males, Five Females ; 
Or Plants producing Heniiaphrodite Flowers, having 
each five Stamina, or Male, andfive Pifiilluvis, or Fe¬ 
males. 
THIS Genus furnilhes but one fpecies for this 
place, principally of the large, fhrubby, deciduous 
tribe ; a plant of curious Angularity to admit in fhrub- 
bery compartments, for ornament and variety; is of 
hardy growth, rifing with an upright Hem fix or eight 
feet, adorned with large, Angular, compound, winged 
leaves; and confiderable umbellate bunches of fmall, 
greenifh, quinquepetalous flowers; fucceeded by ob- 
long-roundifh berries, containing each five feeds; fel¬ 
dom ripening in England, &c. but generally obtained 
from America, by which to raife the plants. 
Generic Characters. —Hermaphrodite flowers, grow¬ 
ing in umbellate bunches, each compofed of many 
florets ; each umbel having a fmall involucrum, or ge» 
neral calyx underneath.—Corolla, or flower, the florets 
formed each of five fmall, oval, reflexed petals; five 
awl-fhaped ftamina, terminated by roundifh anthera; 
a piftillum, confifting of a roundifh germen under the 
cup, fupporting five fhort ftyles, crowned each with a 
Angle ftigma; and the germen becomes a roundifh, 
channelled-berry, five-celled, each cell furnifhed with, 
an oblong, hard feed. 
The Species is, 
Aralia fpinofa. Spinous or Thorny Angelica Tree- 
A largifh, fhrubby plant, growing fix or eight feet 
high; having a tree-like, thorny item; and large, 
compound, branching, fpinous leaves, of many oblong 
lobes ; and produce large umbels of greenifh flowers. 
—Native of Virginia. 
This is a curious, fhrubby plant in its general growth, 
large, compound, branching leaves, and confiderable 
loofe umbels of flowers at the ends of the branches ; 
ar.d deferves a place in every principal colleftion of 
ornamental fhrubs and trees : is cultivated for fale at 
all the nurferies, and may be planted in autumn or 
fpring, in fome moft confpicuous compartments in a 
dry foil. 
It is propagated by feeds, and occafionally by cut¬ 
tings of the root. 
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