Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
piles of the Common and Hop Hornbeam, for full ftand- 
ards, for timber-trees and other occafions, or alfo 
large quantities for underwood; and for which latter 
purpofe, and for hedge-plants, or occafionally for 
ornamental ftandards, they may alfo be raifed by lay¬ 
ers ; though the feedling-raifed plants generally make 
the handfomeft ftandard-trees: however, the different 
varieties of the two fpecies, may alfo be raifed diftinft 
in their kinds, in the propagation, by layers of the 
young wood, and fometimes raifed by grafting them 
upon feedling-ftocks of the Common Hornbeam. 
To raife them from feeds, they Ihould generally be 
lowed in autumn, about October, November, &c. or 
in the fpring; but if fowed in the former feafcn, they 
commonly germinate freely in the fpring enfuing; flaw¬ 
ing them in beds of common earth, and covered in an 
inch deep; and when the plants are one or two years 
old, plant them in nurfery lines, till of proper growth 
for final tranfplanting. 
By layers, this may be performed in autumn, or 
any time from Oftober to March, in open weather; 
the lower young wood or Ihoots of laft fummer, are 
proper: being laid down into the earth, will be rooted 
in one year for planting off from the parent llools into 
the nurfery. 
Or to raife any particular forts by grafting, it is 
effefted by inferting ihoots of the defired forts into 
Hocks of the Common Hornbeam in the fpring. 
In the different methods of propagating them in 
the nurfery. &c. let thofe intended for full ftandards 
be trained each with a fingle item, continuing the top 
intire; and prune off low and ftrong collateral ihoots 
from the ftem gradually, to form them of a clean, 
ftraight growth, of five,, fix or feven feet, clear of 
branches, then to branch out above in full heads; but 
thofe defigned for under-growth or hedge-plants, may 
branch out low, or for the latter, if run up to naked 
items, they may be headed down or ihortened at top, 
to gain lateral branches, though they commonly are 
tolerably branchy quite from the bottom in their na¬ 
tural growth. 
When defigned to plant the Hornbeam in woods. 
Sec. for dmber-ftandards, it is moft advifeable to 
tranfplant them in young growth, from two or three, 
to four, five or fix feet; or for other occafions, they 
may alfo either be planted young, as above, or of 
larger fizes, as required; that in planting for timber 
and underwood, they, as before intimated, may be 
planted only at fmall diftances, five or fix feet, more 
or lefs; and in their advanced growth, cut down fame 
for underwood, by degrees, leaving fufficiency of the 
moft promifing to grow for timber. 
Where hedges of Hornbeam may occafionally be in¬ 
tended, any of the forts are eligible ; the Common fort 
is the moft generally adopted, or any of the fmaller 
kinds may alfo be employed for this purpofe; and for 
which occafions are principally uled for internal hedg¬ 
es, either for inclofing, dividing or fheltering, parti¬ 
cular compartments; or may alfo be planted for out¬ 
ward fences, efpecially in a double hedge, as they grow 
very clofe; and in all of which, if kept neatly clip¬ 
ped every year, they will appear ornamental in fum¬ 
mer; and the Common Hornbeam, retaining its leaves 
in their decayed ftate all winter, render the hedge 
more effectual for lhelter in that feafon, than other 
deciduous kinds; though it may be obferved, that 
during the continuance of the withered leaves, the 
hedge appears rather lhabby. To plant hedges ot 
this kind, have young plants, well feathered or branchy 
to the bottom, one or two, to three or four feet high, 
or more, planted a foot to eighteen inches afunder; 
and may run them up to five, fix, eight or ten feet 
high; clipping them every fummer or autumn, on both 
fides, cutting the top at firft, rather fparingly, juft to 
keep it a little regular, till advanced to the intended 
height, then to cut it clofe and even accordingly. 
Ce.an o thus, NEW-JERSEY TEA. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having each 
five Stamina or Male Genitals,, and one Pif ilium or 
Female. 
ONE deciduous, very, ornamental flowering-lhrub, 
of low growth, eligible to adorn principal Ihrubbery 
compartments; garnilhed in fummer with oval leaves, 
and numerous, thick fpikes of pentapetalous, or five¬ 
leaved white flowers, of beautiful appearance, in July 
and autumn ; fucceeded by obtufe, dry berries, fur- 
nifhed with oval feeds, proper wherewith to raile fup- 
plies of the plant,, alfo by layers. 
The Charafters —calyx, turbinated, one-leaved, 
acutely five-parted and permanent; corolla, five- 
roundilh, fpreading petals; five ereft ftamina, of une¬ 
qual length, crowned by roundilh anthera; piftillum, a 
trigonal germen, cylindric ftyle, with an obtufe ftig- 
ma; and the germen grows a trilocular, dry capfular 
berry, with three oval feeds. 
The Species is, 
Ceanothtjs americanus, American Ceanothus, ox* 
New-Jerfey Tea. 
A bufhy fhrub, three, four or five feet high, branchy 
from the bottom—leaves (lmallilb) oval, and three- 
nerved 
