Or TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
'ilyle, the length of the ftamina, and becomes an ob- 
Iong-roundifh pod, having two fmall, roundilh feeds. 
One Species. 
Amorpha fruticofa, fhrubby Amorpha, or Baftard 
Indigo of America. 
A Iargifh fhrub, ten or twelve feet high, making 
large fhoots; the leaves (large, very long) pinnated of 
many pair cf fmall folioles or leaflets, and fmall pur¬ 
ple flowers in fummer.—Grows naturally in Carolina, 
where, of its young fhoots, is made a coarfe fort of 
Indigo. 
This fpecies is proper to cultivate as an ornamental 
flowering fhrub, very eligible to affemble in the prin¬ 
cipal fhrubberry compartments, pleafure-grounds, &c. 
is hardy to grow in any common dry foil, and will 
fucceed in molt fltuations; and may be obtained for 
planting, at moil of the public nurferies, or may ea- 
fiiy be raifed from feeds and layers: they may be 
planted in fhrubberries any time in open, mild wea¬ 
ther, from October or November, till March or April. 
It is propagated by feeds and layers: the feed may 
be had at the nurferies and of feedfmen; and which 
generally few in the fpring in a bed of light earth, 
and the plants tranfplanted in nurfery rows, till of a 
proper fize for the fhrubberry; or, in want of feeds, 
may eafily be raifed by layers of the young fhoots and 
branches in the fprir.g, which will be rooted in one 
fummer, then planted ofF in a nurfery, to have one, 
two or three years growth, and may then be tranf¬ 
planted into the fhrubberry compartments. 
Amygdalus, Almond Tree, comprizing alfo the 
Peach and Nedlarine. 
Clafs and Order. 
Icofandria Monogynia, 
Twenty or more Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having twenty 
or more Stamina or Males, and one Pijlillum or Female 
Organ. 
THIS Genus, Amygdalus, confiils principally of 
choice fruit trees, for training chiefly in the wall-tree 
order, and feme for ftandards, with feme proper to in¬ 
troduce in flirubberries as beautiful flowering trees and 
fhrubs; comprizing, in the different fpecies, the Almond, 
Peach, and Ne&arine, all of the moderate tree kind, 
ten or twelve to fifteen or twenty feet high, and feme 
of low fhrubby growth; all of the deciduous tribe, 
fumifhed with leaves in fummer, moftly fpear-fhaped, 
long and narrow, three to four or five inches length, 
and with pale red flowers growing by pairs, and flngly 
along the fides of the young fhoots, compofed of five 
oval petals, twenty or more ftamina, and roundifh 
germcn in the centre, which becomes a large, oval, and 
roundifh, downy fruit, fumifhed with an internal nut or 
ftone, including a Angle kernel, which, in the Almond 
in particular, is the only eatable part, but in the Peach 
and Neftarine the whole outer flefhy fubltance, fur¬ 
rounding the ftone, is the eatable part of the fruit: ri¬ 
pening from the end of July or beginning of Augull, 
till October, in the different varieties. 
Generic chartitters. —The flowers all hermaphrodite, 
having male and female within the fame cover—calix, 
or cup, one-leaved, obtufely five parted at the brim. 
—Corolla, or flower, of five obtufe concave petals in- 
ferted into the cup.—Stamina, twenty or more, flender 
and fhorter than the petals of the Corolla, crow el 
with fmall anthera.—Piftillum, a roundifh, downy ger- 
men, in the centre of the flower, elevating a Angle ft le, 
the length of the Stamina terminated by a heacei 
ftigma, fucceeded in the germen by a large oval and 
ronndifh, downy, leathery, and flefhy fruit, marked 
with a longitudinal furrow, incloflng a hard nut or 
ftone furrowed and netted, and in which is included a 
Angle feed or kernel. 
The Species of AMYGDALUS are* 
i. Amygtsalvs communis, Common Almond Tree. 
A moderate tree, growing eighteen or twenty feet 
high; the leaves (long, narrow, Jhining) fpear-fhap¬ 
ed, fawed on the edges, and fmall glands at the bafe, 
and twin flowers* or in pairs, feffile; fruit roundifh-oval, 
compreffed, downy a#id tough outer cover, incloflng 
the ftone and kernel: ripe in the autumn.—Native of 
Mauritania, in hedges- 
Varieties of the Almond. —Common red-flowered Al¬ 
mond Tree. 
White-flowered Almond Tree. 
Silvery-leaved Almond Tree. 
Bitter-kernelled common Almond. 
Sweet-kernelled common Almond. 
Tender-fhellcd, fweet, or Jordan Almond. 
2. Amygdalus nana, Dwarf Peach-leaved Almond 
Tree. 
A fmall fhrub, four or five feet high; the leaves 
(fmall, narrow) fpear-fhaped, leffened at the bafe; 
producing numerous flowers early in the fpring, very 
ornamental.—Native of the northern parts of Afia. 
Varieties .—Common Angle-flowered dwarf Almond. 
Double-flowered dwarf Almond. 
3. Amygdalus Pcrfca, (Perfica) or Peach Tree. 
A moderate tree, growing ten or fifteen feet high; 
the leaves {long, narrow) fpear-fhaped, acute at both 
ends, fawed, and flowers folitary or flngly, and feflile 
©x dole-fitting; fuc;ecd«d by large, roujidiih, downy 
fruit. 
