Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
autumn or fpring, with roots to each, and planted 
either in a r.urfery, or fome of the largeft, at once 
V/here they are to remain; and the others, when of 
two, three, or four feet growth, may alfo be tranf- 
planted into the places where they are finally to con¬ 
tinue ; likewife, may propagate them by layers of the 
young (hoots cf the year, or preceding fummer, layed 
down in autumn, or following fpring; they will be 
moiUy fufiiciently rooted for planting off in the autumn 
or fpring enfuing; alfo by feed, where attainable, 
fowing it in the fpring, in a bed of light earth; and 
when the plants are one or two years old, tranfplant 
them in nurfery-beds to acquire a proper growth 
for the Ihrubbery, Sec. though in general, the propa¬ 
gation by fuckers is the molt common and expeditious 
method; and when the plants, railed by either method,, 
are two or three feet high, or more, they are proper 
for the intended plantations. 
In their future culture in the Ihrubbery, Sec. they 
will only require a little occalional pruning to reduce 
any irregular growth. 
Baccharis, (Ploughman’s Spikenard) GROUND¬ 
SEL TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Syngenefia Polygamia Superflua, 
"United Males, Many Marriages, Superfluous Females’, 
Or compound Flowers, compofed of Hermaphrodite and 
Female Florets dflintl ; the Stamina or Males united 
by their Fops ; Female Florets fuperfluous, or unnecef- 
fary. 
THE Baccharis has one hardy, lhrubby fpecies, a 
largifh, curious ever-green, to admit in the Ihrubbe¬ 
ry, decorated with ovate, glaucous leaves, and fpikes of 
compound, white flowers, having one general calyx 
or cup, containing many fmall hermaphrodite florets 
in the difle, and females in the circumference; the 
former having five fmall ftamina and one piltil, and 
the females a fmall germcn and ftyle; fucceeded in 
ail the florets, by one feed in each: ripe in autumn for 
fowing; but the plant is more generally propagated by 
layers and cuttings. 
One Species. 
Bacch arjs halimifolia, Sea-Purflane-leaved Bac¬ 
charis, or Groundfel Tree. 
Ever-green ihrub, four to five or fix feet high; the 
leaves ob-ovate, (glaucous or fea-grecn) the upper 
onesemarginated-crenated.—Native of Virginia. (Any 
foil.) 
This fhrub claims a place in the colletfHon of ever¬ 
greens, or to introduce in any principal Ihrubbery 
compartments, in a confpicuous lituation, where U 
v/ill effeft an agreeable variety in its glaucous, whit- 
ilh-green leaves, at all feafons; may be procured at 
mod of the nurferies, for planting, in autumn or 
fpring; and is propagated by layers and cuttings of 
the young wood, in the fame feafons or early part of 
fummer, which will be rooted by the autumn follow¬ 
ing; and may be forwarded in the nurfery till of two 
or three feet growth, and is then proper for the Ihrub¬ 
bery, Sec. where it requires only the common culture 
of other hardy Ihrubs; as hoeing the ground occafion- 
ally in fummer, to keep down weeds, and to dig the 
ground annually in autumn, winter, or fpring. 
Berber^, BERBERRY TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Hexandria Monogynia, 
Six Males, One Female ; 
Or Hermaphrodite Flowers, furnijhed with fix Stamina, 
or Males, and one Piflillum, or Female. 
The Berberry confifts of two fpecies, and feveral. 
varieties, of the fmall tree, or large Ihrub kinds, all 
of the deciduous tribe; in eftimation both for their 
produ&ion of fruit, (fmall berries) for domellic oc- 
cafions, and to plant in Ihrubberies, or any ornamen¬ 
tal compartments, in pleafure-grounds, for variety, 
&c. in... their general growth, foliage, flowers and 
fruit, grow about fix or eight, to ten feet high, arm¬ 
ed with triple thorns, and gaxnifhed in fummer with 
fmall, oval leaves, and fmall, pendulous clufters of 
yellow flowers; the flowers fmall, having each a 
fmall calyx pr cup of fix leaves, fix fmall oval petals, 
fix fhort ftamina, a piftillum, confifting of a fmall 
germen and one ftyle; and the germen becomes a cy- 
lindric berry, containing an oblong feed; the berries 
growing many together, in fmall, loofe bunches: ri¬ 
pen in autumn, for ufe, to preferve, pickle, 8 oc. and 
for fowing, by which to raife the trees, or are alto 
propagated by layers, fuckers and cuttings. 
The Species of BERBERIS are* 
i. Berberis vulgaris , Common Berberry T ree. 
A fmall tree or large Ihrub, (deciduous) growing 
eight or ten feet high; the head bulky, leaves oval, 
(Smallijh, light-green) and peduncles or flower-ftalks, 
having flowers in racems or clufters, fucceeded by 
fmall pendulous clufte. s of red berries of an acidtaftr. 
—Native of England and moft parts of Europe, in 
woods, the Eaft, and Mount Lebanus. (Any foil.) 
Varieties.— Common Red-fruited Berberry. 
Red-fruited, without ftone-or feed. 
White-fruited Berberry. 
Black-fruited Berberry, 
2. Ber 
