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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
Varieties .—Common Broad-leaved Virginia Dog¬ 
wood. 
Narrow-leaved Virginia Dogwood. 
White-involucrumed Virginia Dogwood. 
Red-involucrumed Virginia Dogwood. 
Blue-berried American Dogwood. 
White-berried Penfylvanian Dogwood. 
White-leaved American Dogwood. 
All thefe fpecies and varieties of Cornus are etteem- 
ed principally to plant for ornament and variety, io 
pleafure-grounds, &c. and the Cornelian Cherry -alfn, 
occafionally, as a fruit-tree, in fmall flandards or in 
eipaliers, for its cherry-like berries, particularly the 
red fort: which ripening in autumn, of an acid relifh, 
are fometimes preferved for making tarts; but the 
trees of which, in both the varieties, and thofe of all 
the other fpecies of Cornel, are more generally em¬ 
ployed in compofing Ihrubberies, and in diverlifyir.g 
any decorative plantations; and for all of which oc- 
cafions they are eafily raifed abundantly by feed, lay¬ 
ers, cuttings, and grafting. 
They are all very hardy, deciduous tree and fhrub 
kinds, to grow in any common foil and fituation; and 
from their natural growth, modes of flowering and 
fruiting, are commonly adapted to introduce in orna¬ 
mental plantations, and any large clumps or other 
compartments of flowering-trees and Ihrubs, in plea¬ 
fure-grounds, in which they will difplay a proper di- 
verfity in their different growths, fome Angular in 
their red fhoots; and the whole effect a confpicuous 
variety in their different leaves, and umbells of flow¬ 
ers, in fpring and fummer, which in the Cornus mas, 
and fome of the Virginia Dogwoods, appear early in 
the fpring, at the fldes and ends of the branches, in 
fmall, clofe umbells; others appearing in fummer, in 
large, white umbells, terminating the branches and 
fhoots ornamentally!; fucceeded in moll of the forts 
by (flutters of red, white, blue, and other coloured 
berries: ripe in autumn, and fome continue in winter; 
and in which feafon the red-twigged Dogwoods exhibit 
an agreeable appearance. 
So that for any ornamental planting in large fhrub- 
bery compartments, both in clumps and running plan¬ 
tations, all the fpecies of Cornus are proper to arrange 
in afi'emblage; and for which may be had at all the 
nurferies, and planted any time in open weather, from 
the decay of the leaves in autumn to March. 
Likewife the Cornus mas, or Cornelian Cherry, may 
be admitted in the fruit-tree colleftion, particularly the 
red-berried kind, for its fruit, which in fome fami¬ 
lies is efteemed for its acid quality to preferve for 
tarts; and for which the trees may be trained either 
in fmall flandards, in gardens or orchards, or trained 
inefpaliers, to obtain the fruit in beft perfeftion: ge¬ 
nerally ripening.in autumn,, about September. 
All the forts of Cornus are propagated or raifed bv 
feed, layers, fuckers, and fometimes by cuttings, and 
occafionally by grafting any particular variety. 
By feed or berries, thefe ripening in autumn, may 
be fowed in that feafon,’or in the fpring; but if fowed 
in autumn they will more certainly all come up next 
fpring, the others probably not fo freely, or fome¬ 
times not wholly till the year following: they may 
be fowed in any beds of common earth, and covered 
in an inch or two deep: when the plants come up, give 
occafional watering in dry weather; and when of one 
or two fummers growth, tranfplant them in autumn or 
fpring into a nurfery, trained with a Angle ttem and 
branchy head; and when advanced two or three, to 
four or five feet, are of proper Aze for final tranfplant- 
ing in the places where intended. 
Or by layers, cuttings and fuckers; chufe for the 
two former, the young lhoots, which lay and plant in 
autumn or fpring, and will be rooted by the following 
autumn, more efpecially the layers; and fuckers rifing 
from the roots, may be taken off in the autumn or 
fpring; and all of which planted in a nurfery for a 
year or two, or till of proper growth, or wanted for 
the intended plantations. 
When, by either of the above methods of propa¬ 
gation, they are raifed to three, four or five feet 
growth, they are of eligible Aze for the lhrubbery and 
other plantation diflritts intended, planted therein at 
the proper feafon; and in which plantations the prin¬ 
cipal culture is only to prune out any low, draggling 
branches, or to reduce long ramblers of the head. 
Or if any of the Cornelian Cherry are planted for 
fruit-trees, permit the flandards to advance in full 
heads, or, occafionally, prune any cafual irregularly, 
as above; and where any are trained in the efpalier 
order, arrange the branches to the trellis moflly at 
their full length, horizontally, four or five inches afun- 
der, and have a regulation of pruning and training 
annually, as dire&.d for the Common Cherry-Tree. 
Coronilla, JOINTED-PODDED COLUTEA, 
and Scorpion Sena. 
Clafs and Order. 
Diadelphia Decandria, 
Two Brotherhoods, Ten Males ; 
Or Papilionaceous, Hermaphrodite Flowers, having ten 
Stamina or Males, in two Sets or Brotherhoods. 
THE family of Coronilla affords four hardy flower- 
ing-fhrubs of the ever-green and deciduous tribes, to 
adimit in the lhrubbery; all of upright, fmall and mid- 
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