Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS, 
The general feafon for planting thefe trees is prin¬ 
cipally either in the autumn or fpring; the ever green 
kinds mav be tranfplanted early in autumn, from about 
the middle or latter end of September, or any time in 
Oftober and beginning of November; or alfo any 
time in the lail-mentioned month, in open weather, 
not generally in t.;e dead of winter, except they can 
be tranfplanted with balls, or is a very mild feafon, but 
declined if appearance of fevere froft, and may be 
planted freely in the fpring months, till April; and 
where convenient to remove any with balls of earth, it 
will be of lingular advantage; or the deciduous Cyprefs 
may be tranfplanted in the general planting feafons, 
Odtober, November, &c. or, occafionally, any time 
during the winter, when mild, and in the fpring. 
In planting thefe trees, that when defigned to aflo- 
clate them in any general Ihrubbery or other planta¬ 
tions of different trees and fhrubs, it is advifeable to 
difpofe the ever-green forts principally in compart¬ 
ments, confining moftly of that tribe; or fometimes 
dotted thinly in fome principal deciduous clumps. &c. 
likewife may obferve the fame order in planting the 
deciduous Cyprefs; and likewife trees of all the forts 
may be dotted fmgly on grafs lawns, or, occafionally, 
in fmall clumps or groups of three or more together, 
in the fame places, and in other fimilar compart¬ 
ments, in a diverfified order. 
Sometimes, in the ancient flile of gardening, the 
Upright Ever-green Cyprefs was formed into hand- 
fome, tall hedges in pleafure-grounds, for ornament, 
though feldom employed now for that occafion, fince 
mod forts of ornamental hedge-work is abolifhed the 
Englifh gardens. 
To propagate or raife the Cypreffes, it is effected 
principally by feed foweu in the fpring, which may 
be had of the feedfmen, and being cleared out of 
cones, fow in March or April, in a bed of light 
ground, either in fmall drills or on the furface, and 
covered in with mold half an inch deep; or fome fowed 
in pots of light earth, to move to lhade in fummer 
and fhelter in winter, the feed will foon germinate, 
and the plants come up freely the fame feafon, or early 
part of dimmer; give water occafionally in that feafon, 
and lhade when very hot, as likewife give occadonal 
fhelterin winter from fevere frod; and when they are 
advanced of one or two years growth in the feed-beds, 
tranfplant them in the fpring, March or April, into 
nurfery-beds, in rows a foot afunder, and when of ad¬ 
vanced growth, in a year or two, tranfplanted at wider 
didances, to obtain eligible fize, of three or four, to 
five, fix or feven feet height, for final tranfplanting 
into the continuing plantations in which they may be 
intended. 
They may alfo be propagated, occafionally, by 
layers and cuttings of the young (hoots in the fpring. 
In the general growth of thefe trees, they, in 
fhrubberies, and other ornamental didri&s, may be 
permitted to aflume their natural, branchy manner; or 
lome occafionally pruned up moderately in the under, 
draggling branches, to form a clean dem below, and 
let the whole advance above in full growth; and when 
any are planted in fored-tree plantations, they fliould 
be trimmed up below gradually, to run up with clean,, 
fingle Items, in a tall, ftraight growth. 
Cytisus— (CYTISUS) or Bafe Trefoil Tree, 
and Laburnum. . 
Clafs and Order. 
Diadelphia Decandria, 
Two Brotherhoods, Ten Males ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having the 
Stamina or Males difpofed in two Sets, and in each 
Flower ten Stamina. 
THE Cytisus family confids of feveral fpecies 
and varieties of deciduous flowering-fnrubs and trees, 
and one ever-green fiowering-lhrub; all employed for 
ornamenting ihrubberies and other decorative plant¬ 
ing; are of fmall, moderate, and large growth, three 
or four, to five or fix feet high in the Teller fhrubs, and 
the larger or tree-like kinds, fifteen to twenty feet 
high, or more; the whole garnilhed with trifoliate 
leaves, or confiding each of three didinft folioles or 
leaflets; and numerous, long pendulous and ereft 
fpikes, and umbellate cluders, of papilionaceous, yel¬ 
low flowers, at the fldes and ends of the branches, 
in May and June; having each a bell-fhape bilabiate 
cup; a corolla, compofed of an oval vexillum or fland- 
ard, two obtufe wings, and a bellied carina or keel, 
with ten Aamina in two fets, and one dyle ; fucceed- 
ed by oblong legumenous pods, containing kidney- 
fhape feeds: ripe in autumn, and by which the fpecies 
are propagated, alfo by cuttings of the young /hoots. 
The hardy Species of CYTISUS are, 
i. Cytisus Laburnum — (Laburnum) or Tree Cy- 
tifus, commonly called Laburnum. 
A moderate, deciduous tree, fifteen or twenty to 
thirty feet high—the leaves {large) trifoliate, with the 
lebes or folioles ovate-oblong; and long, pendulous,, 
fingle fpikes of yellow flowers; May or J une. — Na¬ 
tive of Helvetia, Savoy, the Alps, &c. {Any/oil.) 
Varieties. —B road- leaved L ab urn urn. 
Narrow-leaved Laburnum. 
Long-finked Laburnum. 
Short-l'piked Laburnum. 
Variegated-leaved Laburnum. 
2. CY- 
