Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
from America for fowing, or the plant propagates by 
layers, cuttings, and fuckers. 
Generic Charaders. —The flower hermaphrodite; 
the calyx one-leaved, five-parted, and permanent; 
corolla or flower, five oblong petals, longer than the 
cup; ten ftaminas the length of the petals, crowned 
with oblong, ereft anthera; piftillum, confiding of a 
roundifh, central germen, an ereft, permanent ftyle, 
terminated by a trifid iligma; and the germen grows 
a roundifh, trivalved capfule, full of angular feeds. 
One Species, viz. 
Clethra alnifolia, Alder-leaved Clethra. 
A moderate fhrub, five or fix feet high—the leaves 
(,middling large) oblong fpear-fhaped, fawed, and 
placed alternate; and fpikes of white flowers at the 
ends of the branches; July.—Native of Carolina, Vir¬ 
ginia, and Penfylvania. (Moijl filiations , or any common 
foil.) 
This being an ornamental flowering-fhrub, demands 
a place in principal fhrubberies; delights mod in moifl 
ground, but will grow in any common foil and fitu- 
ations: may be obtained at the nurferies for planting, 
in autumn or fpring, generally allotting it fome princi¬ 
pal compartment in a confpicuous fituation, in which 
it will make a pretty appearance when in flower, and 
effeft variety in its general growth. 
It is propagated by layers, cuttings, fuckers, and 
occafionally by feed; by layers and cuttings the 
young fhoots are proper, in autumn or fpring, they 
will be rooted, fome probably by the autumn follow¬ 
ing, or fometimes not fufficiently till the fecond au¬ 
tumn; or may lay young fhoots of the year in June, 
to root fooner; and cuttings of the young fhoots may 
be planted in the fpring, in a fhady border; likewife 
fuckers from the root, digged up with fibres, form at 
once rooted plants, which fet in a nurfery for a year 
or two; and when the plants, by either method, are 
of two or three feet growth, they are proper for the 
fhrubbery. 
By feed, generally obtained in the fpring, fow it in 
March or April, in a bed or pot of good earth; give 
occafional fhade and water in hot weather; and when 
the plants are a year old, tranfplant them in the nurfery 
till of proper fize, as above. 
Cneorum, WIDOW WAIL. 
Clafs and Order. 
Triandria Monogynia, 
'Three Males One Female ; 
Or Flowers Hermaphrodite, having three Stamina Or 
Male Fructifications, and one Pifiillum or Female. 
THE Cneorum comprifes but one fpecies, a fmall 
.bufhy ever-green, for the fhrubbery, flowering orna- 
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mentally great part of fummer and autumn; is clofely 
adorned with fmall leaves, and many fmall, yellow 
flowers, fingly, of three narrow petals, fucceeded by 
a globular, trilobated, dry berry, having three feeds: 
ripe in autumn, and by which, fowed in autumn or 
fpring, the plant is propagated, alfo by cuttings. 
Charaders. —The flower hermaphrodite; calyx fmall, 
tridented, and permanent; corolla, three oblong, 
narrow petals, ereft; three ftamina, ereft, and fliorter 
than the flower, crowned by fmall anthera; a cen¬ 
tral, obtufe, three-cornered germen, having a fhort, 
ereft ftyle, terminated by a fpreading, trifid Iligma; 
and the germen becomes a globular, trilobated, dry 
berry, of three round feeds. 
One Species, viz. 
Cneorum tricoccum, Three-feeded Cneorum or Wi¬ 
dow-Wail. 
A low, ever-green fhrub, clofely branching and 
bufhy, three feet high—the leaves (fmall) oblong- 
oval, narrow, and clofely placed; and yellow flowers, 
fingly, in May or June, to the end of the fummer.— 
Native of Spain and Narbona. ( Dry fituation or any.) 
This dwarf, ever-green fhrub, being ornamental 
both in its clofe, bufhy growth, and long continuance 
in flowed, claims a place in all principal fhrubbery 
colleftions, allotting it a front fituation; either in af- 
femblage, chiefly in ever-green clumps, &c. or to¬ 
wards the front of other compartments; in a dry, gra¬ 
velly, or any foil as may be convenient: may be had 
at the nurferies for planting, in autumn or fpring, and 
is eafily raifed by feeds and cuttings in the fame fea- 
fons; and young plants often rife naturally from Mat¬ 
tered feeds. 
To propagate the plant, fow the feed in the autumn 
or fpring, but if the former feafon, they will generally 
come up more freely the fpring following; fowing it 
half an inch to an inch deep in any light earth; and when 
the feedlings are one year old plant them in a nurfery; 
and may plant cuttings or flips of the young fhoots in a 
fhady border, or forwarded in a hot-bed in the fpring. 
In either method of railing the plants, they, when 
advanced in the nurfery twelve to eighteen inches, or 
two feet, may be planted in the fhrubbery; there pro¬ 
ceed in their natural growth. 
Colutea, BLADDER SENNA. 
Clafs and Order. ' 
Diadelphia Dccandria, 
Two Brotherhoods , Ten Males ; 
Or Papilionaceous Flowers, having two Sets of Stamina « 
or ten Stamina or Males in two Sets or Brotherhoods. 
THE Colutea furnifhes three hardy deciduous 
flowering-fhrubs, defirable furniture for fhrubbery 
H plantations; 
