Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
In regard to the method of planting thefe edgings, 
generally have the Box plants for this purpofe, of fhort 
bufhy growth, and making up the edge of the border, 
&c. firm, and the top even byline, flakes, or by di¬ 
rection of the eye, as the different compartments may 
admit; then, with the fpade, cut out a fmall narrow 
trench, the infide upright, five or fix inches deep, 
turning out the earth towards the walk; and then, di¬ 
viding or flipping the Box fmall, into rooted fets, cut 
the long roots ihorter, and the ftraggling tops even: 
plant them in the trench, againft the upright fide, 
clofe, or fo near together, as to form at once a compact 
edging, inferting the fets within an inch, or little more 
or lefs, of the tops, drawing in the earth, about the 
roots and Items, as you proceed in placing them, rai¬ 
ling it near the tops, aforefaid, in a regular manner, 
and tread it down even, and if dry weather, finifh with 
a good watering. 
The after-culture of the Box edgings, is to keep them 
regular, by clipping once every year at leaft, in fum- 
mer, about June, July, and, or in any of the autumn 
months, till October; or if omitted at the above fea- 
fons, may be performed in the fpring, about March, 
April, or May; cutting it even at top and fides, keep¬ 
ing the edging moderately low and thin, not exceed¬ 
ing three or four inches high at molt, and two inches 
broad.it will then appear neat and regular; and gene¬ 
rally in the fummer clipping it is molt advifeable to 
perform it principally when moift weather, as if cut 
when hot and dry, is apt to change of a difagreeable, 
wit cored, or decayed-like appearance. 
C-.tycan.thus, ALL-SPICE TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Icofandria Polygynia, 
Twenty or 7;'ore Males, Numerous Females ; 
Or Plants with Hcnnaphrodite Flowers , having each 
twenty Stamina or Males, and many Pijlils or Fe;nale 
Parts. 
THE C a-lycanthus furnifhes one hardy fpecies; 
a fmall deciduous flowering-fhrub for the fhrubbery, 
garnifhed with oval leaves, and apetalous, purple flow¬ 
ers, fingly, having many ftamina and germina, fuc- 
ceeded by an oval-roundifh berry, with many caudatcd 
feeds: feldom ripening in England, but the plant pro¬ 
pagates by layers and cuttings. 
Char afters. —The flower hermaphrodite ; the calyx 
many-parted, coloured like petals; no corolla; twenty 
or more fhort ftamina, with obtufe anthera; many oval 
germina, crowned with ftigmas, and the germcns grow 
an oval roundifh berry-like fruit, furniflied with oblong 
feeds. 
One Species. 
Calycanthus Jloridus, Florid, Carolina All-Spice 
Tree. 
Deciduous fhrub, four or five feet high; 'the Hem 
fhrubby and branchy—leaves (middling) oval, intire, 
and placed oppofite; and fordid-purple flowers, in 
Mayor June, having the interior petals longeft.—Na¬ 
tive of Carolina, [Dry foil, tuojlly.) 
This fpecies is of branchy, bulhy growth, eligible 
to introduce in principal fhrubbery compartments, as 
a flcwering-lhrub, and for variety; its bark imparting 
an aromatic odour, obtained the name All-fpice in 
America: fnould generally have a fomewhat dry foil 
and warm fituation; may be had at mod of the nurfe- 
ries, and planted either early in the autumn, or prin¬ 
cipally in the fpring, admitted in a confpicuous fitu¬ 
ation is propagated by layers of the young fhoots, i« 
fpring and fummer, properly watered; alfo by cuttings 
of the fhoots. In the fpring months, planted in a fhady 
border, or in pots and placed in a hot-bed, to forward 
their rooting in a more free growth; they, in either 
method, will be rooted in one feafon, then tranfplanted 
in the fpring, and trained each with a bufhy head. 
Carfinus, HORNBEAM, or Hornbeam Tree. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Polyandria, 
One Habitation, Many Males ;. 
Or Male and Female Flowers, feparate, on the fame 
Plant ; and the Male Flowers having many Staniina. 
The family of Carpinus confifts principally of 
two fpecies and feveral varieties, all hardy deciduous 
tree kinds, cultivated for foreft trees, in ftandards and 
underwood, and in pleafurable plantations, for orna¬ 
ment and variety; growing twenty to thirty, or forty 
feet high; cloathed in fummer with oval and oblong 
Ample leaves, and fmall male and female flowers, fe¬ 
parate ; collected in loof@ fcaly amentums or catkins; 
no petals to the male florets; a fix-parted corolla, to^ 
thofe of the female amentums, which enlarges to a 
fcaly cone, containing angular nuts, or feed: ripe in 
autumn, apd by which the trees are commonly railed,, 
and occafionally by layers. 
Charafters. —Flowers male and female, apart, in the 
fame tree, in feparate amentums; the males, collc&ed 
in cylindric, loofe, fcaly amentums, each fcale having 
one floret, without petals, containing many minute 
ftamina, crowned by hairy anthera; and females in 
fcaly imbricated catkins, having one flower in each 
fcale, of one fmall cup-fhape, fix-parted petal, two 
gcriu'ma, fupporting four fmall ftylcs, terminated by 
