THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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in winter; or if the pots are plunged in a hot-bed, in 
the fpring, it will forward the germination of the feed, 
and the plants will come up fooner, when give them 
the free air all fummer; give occafional watering, 
in dry w eather, both to thofe in the pots and beds; and 
if the young plants have (heltcr the firft winter, from 
froft, it will prove of advantage; then in the fpring, 
about March, plant them in nurfery-beds, in rows a 
foot afunder, till advanced of one or two years 
growth, when they may be tranfplanted at wider dif- 
tances, or fome of the largeft planted where they are to 
remain; or the whole, when three or four, to five or 
fix feet, are proper for final tranfplantation: layers 
and cuttings of the young wood, in autumn or fpring, 
will root in one fummer, efpecially the layers; and 
fuckers from the root may be tranfplanted in the fame 
feafon. 
In the above different methods of railing the trees, 
and in the final tranfplanted growth, train each with 
a fingle ftcm, cutting off lower-fhoots, and ilrong, la¬ 
teral wood from the hem, and draggling under-branch¬ 
es of the head. 
Cephalantp us, BUTTON TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Tetrandria Monogynia, 
Four Males, One Female ; 
Or Flowers (Hermaphrodite) hawing four Stamina or 
Male Fruit if cation-, and one Piflil or Female. 
THE Cephalanthus, or Button Tree, fo called from 
its headed flowers, is an elegant, deciduous, fiowering- 
fhrub, to admit in principal flirubberies; is of mid- 
dling growth, with oblong leaves; and loofe fpikes of 
many globular heads of yellowilh flowers, each head, 
or aggregate, compofed of numerous, fmall, funnel- 
fliaped florets, of one petal, fucceeded by a fingle 
feed, collected into round heads: ripe in autumn; and 
by which the plants are railed, and alfo by layers and 
cuttings. 
Generic Char afters. —Numerous, fmail flowers, col¬ 
lected into globofe heads; a one-leaved funnel-lhaped 
cup to each floret, four-parted at top; the corolla of 
the florets one funnel-lhaped petal, the top divided 
into four parts; four Ihort flamina, inferted into the 
petal, crowned with globular anthera; a fmall ger- 
men, a Angle fiyle longer than the flower, terminated 
by a round ftigma; and the germens grow oblongilh 
feeds, in a globular head. 
One Species, viz. 
Cephal anthus occidcntalis. Occidental, or Weft- 
ern. Button Tree of America. 
A moderate, deciduous Ihrub, five or fix feet high, 
branching by pairs oppofite— leaves (middling , light- 
green) oblong-narrow, placed oppofite, and by three 
together; and yellowilh-white flowers in July.—Na¬ 
tive of North America. (Moijt, light foil.) 
This is a defirable, flowering-lhrub, to introduce 
for the embellilhment of flirubberies and other com¬ 
partments, in pleafure-grounds, Sec. where it will effeCl 
a pretty variety, and flower very ornamentally in fum¬ 
mer; delights inofi: in fomewhat moift ground, but 
may alfo be planted in any' common foil where it may 
be required, and lhould generally' have a principal 
fituation: may be had at the nurferies, and planted in 
autumn or fpring; and is propagated by feed, layers 
and cuttings. 
To raife this fhrub, the feed may be fov/ed either in 
the autumn, if it can be obtained, or in the fpring, in 
a bed of lightifli earth, or in pots, and placed in a 
fliady border, &c. in fummer, giving water in that 
feafon; and when the plants are one or two years old, 
tranfplant them into nurfery-beds, where train them, 
till of two or three feet growth, proper for flirubbery; 
or to propagate it by layers and cuttings of the young 
wood, perform it in autumn or in the fpring, or the 
cuttings principally in the lall-mentioned feafon; they 
will be rooted, both layers and cuttings, to plant oft* 
in autumn, or fpring following, into the nurfery, to 
acquire a proper fize, as oblerved of the feedling 
plants. 
Cercis, JUDAS TREE, (Arbor Judas) 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Fen Males, One Female ; 
Or the Flowers Hermaphrodite, hawing ten Stamina or 
Males, and one Stylus or Female. 
THIS Genus, Cercis, comprifes two curious fpecies 
of fmall or moderate, deciduous trees, of the orna¬ 
mental kind, for adorning flirubberies and other deco¬ 
rative compartments, of planting in pleafure-grounds; 
grow ten or twelve feet high, branching out low and 
irregular, garnifhed with large, heart-roundifti leaves, 
on long foot-ftalks, placed without order; and large 
clullers of papilionaceous-like, bright-purple, and 
reddifh, very ornamental flowers, of five unequal pe¬ 
tals, having ten ftamina, and one germen and ftyle, 
growing a long, unilocular, flat pod, containing 
roundilh feeds, by which the trees are generally propa- 
gated; fowed in the fpring. 
Generic Charafters .—Hermaphrodite flowers; the ca¬ 
lyx bell-fhape, one-leaved, convex) at bottom, the top 
five-parted; corolla, or flower papilionaceous, or but¬ 
terfly-flower-like, having five unequal petals, the two 
fide-ones or wings reflexed, and rifing above the ftand- 
ard or middle petal, which is round, and two heart - 
lhaped 
