THE GARDENER’S 
VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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Aristolochia, BIRTKWORT. 
Oafs and Order. 
4 Gvnandria Hexandria, 
Male and Vcrnale joined, Six Males, or Stamina', 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having the Sta¬ 
mina, or Males, growing cither upon the Style, or Fe¬ 
male, or both Male and Female upon a Style-Form Re¬ 
ceptacle, and having fix Stamina, or Males. 
FOR this divifion, the Ariftolochia furnifhes a 
low, nnder-lhrubby plant for the fhrubbery, &c. 
adorned with fpear-fhaped, hearted leaves, and irre¬ 
gular flowers, fmgly; lucceeded by oblong capfules, 
furnilhed with feed. 
Generic Characters. —Hermaphrodite flowers, no Ca¬ 
lyx or cup; corolla, or flower, irregular, gibbous, or 
fwelling at the bafe, cylindric-tubulous upward, fpread- 
ing at the brim, extended in the under part, tongue- 
form : fix ftamina, or rather only anthera, placed on 
the ftyle under the ftigma. Piftiilum, an oblong, an¬ 
gular germen, under the flower, fupporting a globu¬ 
lar, fix-parted ftigma; and the germen grows a 
large, trivalved, unilocular capfule, different formed, 
Filed with numerous fmall feeds. 
The Species is, 
Aristolochia arborefeens. Tree or Shrub Birth- 
wort. 
and deciduous tribes, valuable principally for orna¬ 
ment and variety in ftirubbery compartments; growing 
upright, three to four or five feet high; adorned with 
compound, multifid, and finely-divided leaves; and 
the branches terminated by fpiltes and heads of fmall, 
greenilh, compound flowers, of many^ fmall florets 
within one general cup, each floret fucceeded by a 
naked feed. 
General Characters. —Compound flowers, of many 
fmall florets, in one general calyx: the calyx roundifh 
fcaiv, and round feales. Compound flower, compofed 
of female florets on the border or radius, furnifhed 
each with a fmali, germen, flender ftylus, crowned 
with a bifid ftigma; and hermaphrodite, tubulous flo¬ 
rets in the difk, or middle, five-parted at the brim, 
having each a fmall germen, ftile and ftigma, as the 
females, and five ftamina crowned by cylindric an¬ 
thera, five-dented; and in all the florets the germen 
becomes a naked. Angle feed. 
The Species are, 
I. Artemesia Abftnthium arborefeens, Tree 
Wormwood. 
Ever-green fhrub, four to five or fix feet high; 
the Item fhrubby, upright; leaves compound, (J'mall, 
hoary) multifid, or divided into many linear fegments; 
and fmall, fub-globular, greenilh flowers.— Native of 
Italy and the Eaft. 
A fmall under-fhrub, two or three feet high; the 
Items and branches fhrubbyifh, ereft; leaves hearted- 
fpear-fhape, and dark-purplifli flowers, fingly at the 
axillas of the leaves.—Native of North America. 
This fmall, fhrubby plant, is proper to admit in 
Ihrubberies towards the front part; but being fomewhat 
tender, fhou l d have a warm, fheltered fituation, or, 
occafionallv, protedted in fevere frofts; or fome'may 
alfo be kept in pots, to move under fhelter in winter: 
it may be propagated by feeds fowed in the fpring, in a 
bed or pots of light earth: give fhelter in winter; and 
when the plants are one or two years old, tranfplant 
them in nurfery beds or pots, till of proper fize for fi¬ 
nal tranfplanting. 
Artemisia, (Mugwort) WORMWOOD, &c. 
Clafs and Order. 
Syngenefia Pclygamia Superflua, 
Conjoined Males, Many Marriages, Superfluous Females ; 
Or compound Flowers, compofed of Hermaphrodite and 
Female Florets ; the Stamina, or Males, joined together 
at tcp\ and Female Florets fuperfiuous or unnecefj'ary . 
O F the Artemefla family, are two hardy fpecies, of 
Ihrubby and under-fhrubby plants, of the ever-green 
2. Artemisia Abrotanum, (Abrotanum) or South 
ernwood. 
A deciduous under-fhrub, three feet high; the ftems 
and branches fhrubby, upright; the leaves branching, 
finely-divided into numerous, briftly fegments; and ter¬ 
minal fpikes of fmall, greenilh flowers.—Native of 
Styria, Cappadocia, Italy, Montpelier, &c. on hills. 
Varieties of this.- —Common narrow-leaved South¬ 
ernwood. 
Broad-leaved Southernwood. 
Dwarf Southernwood. 
Broad-leaved, Scentlefs, Southernwood. 
Hoary narrow-leaved Southernwood. 
Beth the above fpecies of Artemifia, and the refpec- 
tive varieties, being lhrubby plants of moderate and 
fmall growtii, are adapted for the fhrubbery, to di- 
verflfy clumps and other compartments; the firft as 
an ever-green, effedling a confpicuous variety in its 
hoary, compound-leaves,, at all feafons of the year; 
the fecond as a deciduous under-fhrub, efteemed for 
its fragrant feent; and is proper to introduce towards 
the front of flirubbery-clumps, &c. and to adorn 
flower borders, or to plant in pots occaftonally; and of 
which two fpecies, the ever-green fort, or Tree Worm¬ 
wood, 
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