Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
euRy in a Free growth; ormayalfo be raifed by layers 
of the young wood; and the climbing forts alfo pro¬ 
pagate freely by cuttings or layers, fome alfo by fuck¬ 
ers from the roots, and which methods of railing thefe 
forts is the moll advifeable, as the plants will flower 
much fooner than feedlings; the cuttings of which 
climbing forts will moftly root freely in the full ground, 
efpecially the Radicant Bignonia, or which, and the 
others, may be forwarded in a hot-bed occafionally. 
For final planting in (hrubberies, &c. the Bignonia 
Catalpa is of proper fize, when three or four, to fix or 
eight feet high, or more; the others when two or 
three, to feveral feet, in their climbing growtn. 
They may be planted in the allotted plantations, ei¬ 
ther in autumn, about Oftober or November, See. or 
in any of the fpring months, till April, or occafionally 
any time in winter, in mild, open weather, difpofing 
them according to their growth before explained; and 
in their advancing Hate, the principal care is to train 
the climbers to fome fupport, and the. Catalpa , in its 
ftardard growth, will only need to have cafual, ftrag- 
gling branches pruned to order in winter; likewife in 
the climbers, when of advanced growth, have the 
fmall, weakly Ihoots cut out in winter, the ftrong ones 
retained, and occafionally fliortened more or lefs, to 
obtain plenty of lateral young Ihoots for flowering in 
fummer. 
Bupleurum, (HARTWORT) or Hare’s Ear. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Digynia, 
Five Males, Twc Females; 
Or Flowers having five Stamina or Male Parts , and 
two Pifiillums or Females, 
THE Bupleurum furnifhes for this place a pretty 
ever-green fhrub, of upright, bufliy growth, and eli¬ 
gible for the fhrubbery; garnifhed with ovalifh leaves, 
and umbelliferous yellow flowers; the main umbel 
formed of ten fmaller, each compofed of many fmall 
florets of five petals, fucceeded by roundifh fruit, fur- 
niflied with two ovate feeds, by which may raife the 
plants, and alfo by cuttings. 
General Characters. —Flowers growing in umbels, 
of many hermaphrodite florets in each; the main um¬ 
bel formed of ten fmaller, having, to the general 
umbel, a many-leaved involucrum, and five-leaved in 
the fmaller or partial umbels; the corolla of the flo¬ 
rets five heart-fhape petals; ftamina five filaments, 
crowned with roundifh anthera; piftillum, a germen 
under the floret, fupporting two fmall reflexed ftyles; 
and the germen grows a roundifh-compreflcd, chan¬ 
nelled, two-parted fruit, having two oblong feeds. 
One Species, viz. 
Bupleurum fruticofum , Shrubby, Willow-leaved 
Hare’s Ear, or ./Ethiopian Hartwort. 
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An ever-green fhrub, fix or eight feet high; the 
ftem fhrubby, branching in a bufliy growth—leaves 
(middlingfixe) ovate-oblong and intire, fmooth, fea- 
green; and yellow umbels of flowers, July or Auguft. 
—Native of the South of France and the Eaft, upon 
rocks, near the fea. {Warm, dry foil.) 
This fpecies being r.n ornamental ever-green, and 
a flowering-fhrub of bufhy growth, claims a place in 
principal fhrubbery compartments, afligning it a fome- 
what warm fituation and dry foil; and for which occa- 
fion it may be procured at tne public nurferies, for 
planting in autumn or in the fpring; and is raifed from 
feeds and cuttings. 
To propagate this fhrub, may fow the feed in the 
fpring, in a warm border, or in pots, and forwarded 
in a hot-bed; and cuttings of the young ihoots plant¬ 
ed in pots of loamy or other good earth, in autumn or 
fpring, and ifaflifted by a hot-bed in the fpring, they 
will fooner emit roots, or if planted in the full ground 
in April or May, they will alfo grow and form proper 
rooted plants by autumn; when, or in the fpring fol¬ 
lowing, may be tranfplanted into the nurfery to acquire 
two, three, or four feet growth, then is proper for 
final tranfplanting into the intended plantations. 
Buxus, BOX TREE, or Box. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Tetrandria, 
One Habitation, Four Males ; 
Or Male and Female Flowers, feparate on the fame 
Plant, and the Male Flowers having four Stamina. 
THE family of Buxus confift of fmall tree kinds 
and low under-fhrubby plants, all of the hardy ever¬ 
green tribe, to introduce in fhrubbr-ies, and the dwarf 
fort eminent *or edgings to beds and borders; are 
moftly of bufliy growth, garnifhed with fmall, oval 
leaves, and very fmall male and female flowers, of two 
petals the former, the latter three; fucceeded by fmall, 
roundifh, trilocular capfules, furnifhed with two ob¬ 
long feeds; fometimes ufed for fowing; but the plants 
are more commonly raifed by cuttings, flips, and forae 
abundantly by bottom-rooted fuckers or ofF-fets. 
Generic Characters. —The flowers male and female, 
feparate; the males having a three-leaved calyx, and 
the females a four-leaved cup, concave in each; co¬ 
rolla or flower, in the males two, and the females 
three concave petals; ftamina, four in the males, 
F a crowned 
