Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
to plant the trees; or fome forcing-houfes have alfo na 
internal pit, nearly the whole length, five or fix feet 
wide, or more, formed by a furrounding, thin, brick 
wall, railed two feet, or more, above the floor, or bot¬ 
tom fpace; to have the pit a yard deep, for a bark-bed. 
The trees of Peaches and Nedlarines, for planting 
in thefe apartments, Ihould generally be fuch as have 
been trained in the open-ground, two, three, or four 
years, to a proper age and growth for immediate 
bearers; and which fhould be planted in autumn, 
about Oftober, or beginning of November, in the 
borders within the forcing-houfe; and having a trellis 
of poles, or rails, clofe beliind the trees, train the 
branches thereto, in the wall-tree manner; and have 
occaflonal pruning, as directed, for thofe in the full 
ground. 
The forcing by fire-heat is commenced in the end 
of January, or beginning or middle of February; or 
alfo, make the bark-bed at the fame time where in¬ 
tended, or that there is the accommodation of a pit 
for that purpofe : the fires to be made moderately 
every evening, about fun-fet, till nine, or ten o’clock; 
and alfo, in cold mornings, or fupported all day in 
very cold weather; and the bark-bed, if any, con¬ 
tinued conflantly: admit air, in mild, funny days, in 
the warmeft time, by opening fome of the glafles a 
few inches; and fometimes give moderate waterings 
to the borders, when the earth appears dry; as like- 
wife occafionally to the branches of the trees, before 
and after they bloflom, but never while they are in 
flower, and fetting the fruit; continuing the fire heat, 
as before-mentioned, every night, and all cold wea¬ 
ther, but more moderate, as the warm feafon advances, 
and only principally in the evenings, and cold morn¬ 
ings, &c. in warm, funny days will not be required, 
but when cloudy, will be occafionally neceflary; and 
thus fupport the fire-heat, in a regular, moderate de¬ 
gree, till beginning or middle of May, according to the 
temperature of the feafon; and the bark-bed, if any, 
will remain in a good heat, two or three months ; be¬ 
ing careful to encreafe the admiflion of air every day, 
according to the advanced w'arm weather, by Aiding 
open fome of the glafles, more or lefs, about ten or 
eleven o’clock, when a warm fun, and always fhutting 
clofe, towards the afternoon, or evening, to preferve 
the internal heat of a proper temperature. 
The trees will thus bloflom early, and fet fruit in 
March or April, encreafe in growth till May or June, 
&c. when attaining full fize: will ripen, fome pro¬ 
bably in May, or the principal part in June and July. 
When the fruit of thefe forced trees is all gathered, 
generally remove the glafles, to admit the full air, &c. 
to flrengthen the trees and lhoots of the year, and to 
harden the latter to a mature ftate, proper for pro¬ 
ducing fruit the following feafon. 
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Andromeda, (ANDROMEDA) or Marlh Ciftus. 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia. 
Ten Males, One Female-, 
Or Plants will) Hermaphrodite Flowers, furnijhed with 
ten Stamina, or Males , and one Pijlillum, or Female 
Part. 
The Andromedas are moftly low, bulhy Ihrubs, fome 
ever-green, others deciduous, adapted principally to 
aflemble in Ihrubbery compartments, for variety; 
grow from two or three, to four, five, or fix feet high, 
producing flender branches, adorned with fmall, oval, 
oblong, and lance-fhaped leaves, and with bunches 
and fpikes, of fmal! bell-fhape, greenifh flowers, con¬ 
fining of a cup, five-parted, a monopetalous, beil- 
Ihape corolla, five-parted and reflexed, containing ten 
ftamina, one ftyle, and a roundilh germen, fucceed- 
ed, by pentangular capfules, furnifhed with roundilh 
feeds, by which the plants are occafionally railed; alfo 
by fuckers and layers. 
Generic Characters arc —Hermaphrodite flowers; the 
calyx one-leaved, coloured, cut into five parts, and 
permanent; corolla, or flower, one bell-fhape petal, 
five-parted, thefegments reflexed; ftamina, ten, awl- 
Ihape filaments, Ihorter than the petal, and crowned 
with nodding, two-horned anthera; Piftillum, a round 
germen, long, cylindrical ftyle, crowned with an ob- 
tufe ftigma, and the germen becomes a pentagonal, 
quinquelocular capfule, filled with roundilh feeds. 
The Species are, 
1. Andromeda mariana, Maryland Broad-leaved 
Andromeda. 
A fmall under-lhrub, two feet high; the leaves 
(fmall) ovate, intire, and placed alternate; and the pe¬ 
duncles or flower-ftalks aggregate; the corolla, or 
flower cylindric.—Native of Maryland, in North 
America. 
2. Andromeda paniculata. Panicle flowering An¬ 
dromeda. 
A low fhrub, three or four feet high; the leaves 
(fmall) oblong, crenulated, or fine-notched, and 
placed alternate; flower-fpikes panicled, naked, the 
flowers ranged on one fide; and the corolla or flower 
fub-cylindric.—Native of Virginia. 
3. Andromeda calyculata, Calyculated or Double- 
cupped, Box-leaved Andromeda. 
A low, Ihrubby plant, two or three feet high; the 
leaves (fmall) oval, lance-lhape obtufe, punflured, 
and placed alternate; and with leafy racems of flow¬ 
ers, ranged on one fide, the corolla fub-cylindric.— 
Native of Virginia, Canada, Siberia, and Ingria. 
