THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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plantations; are oflarge and moderate growth, gar- 
nifhed with pinnated leaves, of many pair of oval and 
hearted folioles or leaflets, terminated by an odd or 
end foliole; and long loofe clufters of papilionaceous 
or butterfly-fhaped, yellow, and red flowers, with un¬ 
equal petals, confifting of a rtandard, two wings, and 
a carina or keel below, fucceeded by large, inflated, 
bladder-fhaped pods, of one cell, containing many 
kidney-fhaped feeds: ripe in autumn, and by which the 
fhrubs are generally propagated. 
Generic Charafters. —The flower hermaphrodite; of 
the papilionaceous or butterfly-fhaped kind; the calyx 
bell-lhape, monophyllous, five-dented and permanent; 
corolla or flower, four unequal petals, confifting of a 
large ftandard above, two fide-wings and a carina be¬ 
low, all varying in fhape; ftamina, ten filaments, in 
two fets, nine being joined, one ftanding feparate, 
each crowned bv Angle anthera; a piftillum, confifting 
of an oblong central germen, an afcending ftyle, ter¬ 
minated by a linear, bearded ftigma; and the germen 
grows an inflated or fwoln, bladder-like, unilocular 
pod, furnifhed with feveral kidney-fhape feeds. 
The hardy Species of COLUTEA are, 
1. Colutea arborefcens, Tree Colutea, or Common 
Bladder Senna. 
A large deciduous fhrub, eight to ten, or twelve 
feet high; the Item tree-like—leaves winged or pinna¬ 
ted ( middling , light-green) of four or five pair and an 
end foliole; the folioles obcordate-oval; and pale, 
yellow flowers, in June and July.—Native of France, 
Italy, and Auftria. {Any common foil.) 
Varieties .—The two following are fuppofed acci¬ 
dental varieties of the common fort. 
2. Colutea media , Middle or Pocock’s fhrubby 
Colutea. 
A middling fhrub, (deciduous) more {lender, fpread- 
ing branches, fix to feven, or eight feet high; the 
item fhrubby—leaves pinnated (middling fixe) of eight 
or nine pair and an odd foliole, the folioles oval, intire ; 
and bright, yellow flowers; May or June.—Native of 
the Eafh (Dry or any foil .) 
j. Calutea orientalis, Oriental Shrub Colutea. 
A middling fhrub (deciduous) branching in a regular 
head, fix or feven feet high—leaves pinnated {middling 
fixe) of five or fix pair and an end foliole, heart- 
fhaped ; and dark red flowers, fpotted with yellow; 
June or July,—Native of the Levant. {Dry or any 
foil.) 
All thefe fpecies and varieties are of hardy growth, 
lo fucceed in any common foil and fituation; and are 
principal fhrubs to aflemble in Ihrubbery clumps, and 
other decorative plantations of middling fhrubs and 
trees, in pleafure grounds, in which they will effeft a 
diftinguifnable variety and ornamental appearance in 
fummer, in their pinnated leaves, numerous papilio¬ 
naceous flowers, and curious inflated or puffed, bladder¬ 
like pods; efpecially if in difpofing them in the allotted 
compartments, they are judicioufly placed, more or 
lefs, behind or fonvard, according to their growth, 
and that of the other fhrubs, with which they are to 
aflemble, fo as the whole may be diftinftly confpicu- 
ous. 
They may be obtained for planting, at all the pub¬ 
lic nurferies, in proper growth, of two or three, to 
four or five feet; and the planting performed in au¬ 
tumn, or any time in open weather, from Odtober to 
March, or April; and are propagated or raifed abun¬ 
dantly by feed, and occafionally by layers. 
The propagation or raifing thefe fhrubs is generally 
by feed, in the fpring, flowed in a bed of common 
earth, either in drills orbroad-caft, and earthed in an 
inch deep; or may alfo try layers, in the fame feafon, 
or in autumn, of the young fhoots: the feeds will foon 
vegetate and the plants come up freely, and attain 
fome tolerable growth by the end of fummer; and the 
layers will be rooted for planting off in autumn or 
fpring; when tranfplant the feedlings from the feed- 
beds, and alfo the layers from the ftools, each in nur- 
fery-rows, to acquire eligible fize for the fhrubbery or 
other plantation diftri&s intended. 
When the feedling-fhrubs, and others, raifed as 
above, are from two, to three or four feet high, they are 
of proper growth for final planting, in fhrubberies and 
other places, where required, for ornament and variety. 
The general feafon for planting thefe fhrubs is ei¬ 
ther in autumn, at the decay of the leaves, or in the 
fpring, or even any time from Oftober or November 
to April; obferving generally in planting, if any have 
long perpendicular tap-roots, they fhould be pruned, 
that they may throw out lateral roots horizontally, af¬ 
ter being planted. 
In their general growth, they require but very little 
culture, only to prune up low, ftraggling, or cafual, 
rude fhoots, in the head. 
Coriaria (Tanner’s Shrub) or MYRTLE-LEAV¬ 
ED SUMACH. 
Clafs and Order. 
Dioecia Decandria, 
Two Habitations Ten Males ; 
Or Flowers Male and Female, dif in ft, on two feparate 
Plants ; and the Male Flowers having ten Snamina. 
THIS Genus affords but one hardy fpecies a fmall 
flowering-fhrub, of the deciduous tribe, of thicketty, 
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