THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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ments; ftamina, two fhort filaments, crowned by heart- 
form anthera; and the piftillum confifts of an oval 
germen, Angle ftyle, terminated by an obtufe, trifid 
ftigma; the germen becomes a round unilocular berry, 
containing a ftriated feed or nut. 
The Species is, 
Ch^onanthus virginica, Virginia Snow-Drop Tree. 
A fmall deciduous tree, fhrub-like, eight to ten, or 
twelve feet high—the leaves [large, dark-green) oblong, 
ovate; and peduncles or flower-ftalks, trifid or three- 
parted, fuftaining three flowers.—Native of North 
America. ( Moijlfoil.) 
This curious fiowering-fhrub deferves a place in all 
principal fhrubbery collections, beautiful in its large, 
laurel-like leaves, and long bunches of flowers in 
May, which being fringed and of a fnowy whitenefs, 
the plant obtained the name Fringe or Snow-Drop 
Tree; it delights moftly in a fomewhat moift fituati- 
on, but may be planted in any common, mellow foil, 
or as the fituation affords; is raifed for fale in all the 
nurferies; and propagated generally by feed, and oc- 
cafionally by layers; and when the plants are advanced 
two, three, to four or five feet, is of a proper fize for 
the fhrubbery ; and may be planted in autumn or in 
the fpring. 
To propagate this fhrub by feed, this may be fowed 
in autumn, if attainable at that feafon: is commonly 
obtained from America, and may be had of the feedf- 
men in the fpring, when, about March or April, fowit in 
beds or pots of loamy or other good earth; and if in 
pots, place them in a fhady or call border in fummer; 
or if plunged in a hot-bed as foon as fowed, they will 
come up fooner the fame year, otherwife, fometimes, 
remain dormant till the fecond fpring, in which cafe, 
if the pots are then placed in a hot-bed, it will forward 
them conflderably; obferving that as the young feed- 
ling-plants are rather tenderifh, it would be advifeabla 
to give occafional fhelter in winter, from froft; and 
when they are a year old tranfplant them in the fpring, 
fome fingly in pots, others in a warm fituation in the 
nurfery; or thefe in pots may have occafional pro¬ 
tection the firrt winter or two; training the plants, in 
either method, with a Angle Item and full heads; and 
when two, three or four feet high, they are proper 
for the fhrubbery, &c. in which thofe in pots particu¬ 
larly, may be tranfplanted with balls. 
Or to raife them by layers, the young flioots of laft 
fummer are proper, flit-laying them in autumn or 
fpring; they will probably be rooted fome in one, others 
will be two years before they are well rooted; or may' 
the young fhoots of the fame year in June or July. 
Cist us,—(CISTUS) or ROCK-ROSE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Polyandria Monogynia, 
Matty Males, One Female ; 
Or Flowers Hertnaphrodite, having many Stamina or Male 
Fruttifications, and one Pijlillum or Female . 
THE Cistus is fertile in a numerous family of 
ever-green, ornamental flowering-fhrubs, elegant furni¬ 
ture for the fhrubbery; mollly of fmall and moderate 
growth, from one, two, or three, to ftve or fix feet, 
generally diffufely-branchy and bufhy, cloathed with 
Ample leaves, oblong, fpear-lhape, oval, heart-fhape. 
&c. of various Azes, and different fhades of light and 
dark-green, hoary, white, &c. in the different fpecies, 
moft of them exuding a gummy fubltance; and at 
the Ades and ends of the branches, numerous large 
purple, and white flowers, of five fpreading petals, 
containing numerous ftamina and one piftillum, fuc- 
ceeded by a roundifh capfule, filled with feeds, ripening 
in autumn in moft of the forts, and by which the plants 
are raifed; and are propagated alfo by cuttings. 
Generic CharaBers. —The flower hermaphrodite; ca¬ 
lyx or cup five-leaved, two alternately fmaller; corolla 
or flower, five large, roundifh, fpreading petals; fta¬ 
mina, numerous fmall, fhort filaments, crowned with 
roundifh anthera; a piftillum in the centre, confift- 
ing of a roundifh germen. Angle ftylus, terminated 
by an orbicular ftigma ; and the germen fwells to a 
roundifh, covered capfule, of five to ten loculi or cells, 
filled with roundifh feeds. 
The hardy Species of CISTUS are, 
i. Cistus populifolius, Poplar-leaved Ciftus orRock- 
Rofe. 
A moderate fhrub, firm ftem, very branchy, five or 
Ax feet high—the leaves (largifh) heart-fhape, acu¬ 
minated, fmooth, and petiolated or foot-ftalked; and 
large white flowers in June and July.—Native of Por» 
tugal. 
2. Cistus laurifolins. Bay-leaved Gum Ciftus. 
A middling fhrub, ftronge ftem, branching ereft, 
five or Ax feet high—the leaves [moderate) oblong- 
ovate, three-nerved, fmooth above, with the, foot- 
ftalks connated or joined at the bafe; and large, white 
flowers; June, July, &c.—Native of Spain. 
3. Cistus ladaniferus, Ladanum-bearing or Com¬ 
mon Gum Ciftus. 
A middling ftrong fhrub, ftem very branchy, five 
or fix feet high—the leaves ( middling) fpear-lhape, 
fmooth 
