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nerved.—Native of Virginia and Carolina. {Dry Jitu- 
ation.) 
This fmafl fhrub demands a place in the beft fhrub- 
beries, for its ornamental flowering in numerous, white 
fpikes, terminating the branches; is fomewhat tender 
while young, and ihould generally have a warm, dry 
fituadon; and is propagated by feeds and layers: fow 
the feed in autumn or fpring, in a warm border, or in 
pots, and flickered from frofl; or if the pots are 
placed in a hot-bed in the fpring, the plants will come 
up fooner; give them the full air in fummer, proteft 
them from frofl in winter, and when a year old plant 
fome feparate in final! pots, others in the r.urfery, and 
when two or three feet high, are proper for the flirub- 
bery; or layers of the young branches, in autumn or 
fpring, will be rooted to plant oft in the fpring foliow- 
ing. 
Celastrus—(CELASTRUS) or Staff-Tree. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males, One Female ; 
Or Hermaphrodite Flowers, having five Stamina Or 
Males, and one Pijlillum or Female. 
TWO fpecies of (hrubs, one ever-green, of upright 
growth, the other a climber; botli very definable 
plants for adorning the fhrubbery; grow fix or eight, 
to ten or twelve feet high, ornamented with oval and 
oblong leaves, placed alternate, and loofe fpikes of 
white and greenifh flowers of five petals; fucceeded 
by three-cornered, red capfules, furniihed each with 
three oval feeds, by which the plants may be raifed, 
or may be propagated principally by layers of the 
young wood. 
Characters. —Flowers hermaphrodite, calyx or cup, 
fmall, one-leaved, obtufely, five-parted; corolla, five- 
oval, fpreading petals; five ftamina, the length of the 
flower, crowned with fmall anthera; a fmall germen, 
placed on a large receptacle, deeply tec-channelled, 
Supporting a Angle ftyle, terminated by an obtufe, 
trifid ftigma; thie germen becomes an obtufe, three- 
cornered trilocular capfule, containing three oval 
feeds. 
The Species are, 
x. Celastrus bullatus, Bullated, or Studded-fruit- 
ed, upright Celaftrus. 
A largifh, ever-green fhrub, branching eight or ten 
feet high, unarmed or thornlefs—-leaves {moderatefixe', 
ovate and intire; and white flowers in July, fucceeded 
by fcarlet fruit, elegantly ftudded.—Native of Vir¬ 
ginia. ( Mo if or any common foil.) 
2. Celastrus feandens. Climbing Celaftrus, or Baf- 
card Climbing Spindle-Tree. 
A twining-climbing fhrub, afeending twelve or four¬ 
teen feet high, unarmed or thornlefs; the ftem volu- 
bilate or twining—leaves ( middling) oblong and faw- 
ed ; and greenifh flowers in June, fucceeded by red 
feed-capfules, opening and difplay the feed.—Native 
of Canada, {Mo if ijb or any foil.) 
Thefe two fpecies are very hardy fhrubs, demand 
admittance in all principal fhrubbery colledions, for 
ornament and variety, one as an upright ever-green 
and flowering-fhrub, and the other as a climber, and 
for the curiofxty and pretty appearance of their red 
capfules: they may be admitted in moift or any com¬ 
mon foil and iituation ; the firft, as an upright fhrub, 
fhould be difpofed confpicuoufly, either principally 
with other ever-greens, or where it.may be required; 
and the fecond is proper to introduce as a twining 
climber, in any fhrubbery and tree plantations, giving 
it fupport of tall flakes or poles, or will twin round 
the trees and ihrubs, or their flexible ftems' will twill 
round one another, or any adjacent fupport: both the 
fpecies will difplay an agreeable variety; they flower 
in fummer, which in the firft, are white, appearing in 
July, and in the fecond, greenifh, coming out in 
June; and are fucceeded by ripe feed-capfules, in 
autumn, but more abundantly in the latter fort. 
Both thofe fhrubs are cultivated plentifully in all 
the general nurferies, for public feipply, and may be 
eafily raifed by layers and feeds. 
To propagate thefe fhrubs, it being effected both 
by layers and feeds, autumn or fpring is the proper 
feafon; though, as they grow freely by layers, that 
method is more generally pradtifed; the young fhoots 
are proper, which bow down and lay in the earth: 
they will be rooted in one year, then cut them from the 
parent ftools, and planted in the nurfery; or feeds 
may be fowed in the above feafons, in a bed or pots of 
loamy or other earth, and if in pots, may be placed in 
a fhady place all fummer, and plunged in a warm fitu- 
ation in winter, they will come up in the fpring, or 
fometimes not till the fecond year; and when the plants 
are of one or two fummer’s growth, tranfplant them 
into the nurfery, where, having attained, two, three 
or four feel growth, are proper for thc.ftuuhbety, 
&c. - i 
. nv. ioomr tel 
The feafon for planting them in fliruMJeiTeV, c? Ts 
either in autumn, about Odlober Qf „Navanjbcftju:/^ c • 
or in the fpring. /u i. 
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