Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
fooner, to obtain a ftronger growth before winter, 
when it would be of advantage to give them fhelter 
from froft; and then tranfplanted into the nurfery in 
the fpring to acquire proper growth of three, four, 
or five feet, for final tranfplanting in the intended 
plantations. 
Dirca, LEATHERWOOD. 
Clafs and Order. 
O&andria Monogynia. 
Eight Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having eight 
Stamina, or Males, and one Pi/tillum, or Female. 
THIS Genus, Dirca, furnifhes but one fpecies, a 
fmall deciduous flirub, proper to introduce in fhrub- 
bery compartments for variety; is garnifhed with ovate 
leaves in fummer, and club-fhape ventricofe flowers, 
of one petal, containing eight flamina and one flyle ; 
fucceeded by roundifli berries, having each one feed ; 
and by which the fhrub is propagated, alfo by layers 
and cuttings. 
Dirca falufirus, Marfh Leatherwood. 
A fmall deciduous fhrub, with tenacious (hoots and 
bark—the leaves (moderate) oblong, and pointed, and 
white flowers.—Native of Virginia. ( Moijl , or any 
Jit nation.) 
This fhrub may be introduced in fhrubbery com¬ 
partments to encreafe the variety ; delights in moift 
lltuations, or may be planted in any common foil, in 
autumn or fpring. 
It is propagated by feed fowed in the fpring, alfo by 
layers and cuttings of the young fhoots.—Sow the 
feed in a bed of common earth, in February or March, 
and earthed in an inch deep ; and when the plants are 
come up, and of one year’s growth, tranfplant them 
in autumn or fpring into the nurfery, to attain proper 
flrength for the fhrubbery: layers and cuttings in 
autumn or fpring will be rooted in one year ; and 
when, by either method of propagation, the fhrubs 
are two or three feet high, they fhould be finally tranf¬ 
planted in the plantations intended. 
El/eacnus, WILD OLIVE, or Oleafter. 
Clafs and Order. 
Tetrandria Monogynia, 
Four Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having four 
Stamina, or Male Fructifications, and one Pifiillum, 
or Female. 
THE Eljeacnus furnifhes one large hard decidu¬ 
ous flowering-fhrub, for ornamenting the fhrubbery. 
growing ten or twelve to fifteen feet high, cloathed 
with fpear-fhape filvery leaves, and fmall apetalous 
flowers, compofed of quadrifid or four-parted co¬ 
loured cups, no corolla or petals ; four flamina, and 
one flyle, fucceeded by fmall oval, olive-fhape, dru¬ 
paceous fruit, furnifhed with an oblongifh obtufe nut, 
by which, where attainable, the fpecies may be pro¬ 
pagated, but is more generally raifed from layers, and 
occafionally by cuttings of the young fhoots. 
El se agnus angufiifolia. Narrow-leaved Wild Olive. 
A large fhrub, or fmall tree, growing twelve to 
fifteen or fixteen feet high—the leaves ( fmallijb ) 
fpear-fhape, light green, whitifh. Alining.—Native 
of Bohemia, Spain, Syria, and Cappadocia, (-^«y 
common foil.) 
This lhrub merits a place in principal fhrubberies for 
ornament and variety, in aflemblage with other hardy 
fhrubs and trees; may be had at the nurferies for plant¬ 
ing, which may be performed in autumn or fpring ; 
aflign it a confpicuous and fomewhat warm fituation, 
and it will fucceed in any common foil. 
It is propagated principally by layers of the young 
wood, and occafionally by cuttings: perform the lay¬ 
ing in autumn or fpring, they will be rooted by au¬ 
tumn following ; when, or in fpring, leparate them 
from the ftools, and planted in a nurfery; or cuttings 
of the young fhoots in the fpring may be planted in 
pots, and placed in a hot-bed to forward their root¬ 
ing more eff'ettually, and afterward tranfplanted in 
nurfery-rows; and when the plants, in either method, 
are three or four to five or fix feet high, they are of 
proper growth for the fhrubbery. 
Empetrum, BLACK-BERRIED HEATH, or 
Crow-Berry. 
Clafs and Order. 
Dioecia Tetrandria, 
7 wo Habitations, Four Males ; 
Or Flowers, Male and Female, difiindl on two feparate 
Plants of the fame Species , and the Male Flowers 
having four Stamina. 
THIS Genus furnifhes but one hardy fpecies; a low 
procumbent under-lhrubby ever-green, garnifhed witk 
very fmall ovate leaves, and fmall tripetalous male and 
female flowers feparate, on two diftinft plants ; the 
males having four flamina, and the females one piftil- 
lum, fucceeded by roundifli berries, containing fmall 
feeds, and by which the fhrub is propagated, alfo by 
layers, and bottom-fuckers and off-fets. 
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