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THE 
GARDENER’* vegetable 
SYSTEM 
One Species, viz. 
Empetrum nigrum, Black-berried Empetrum. 
A low ever-green of trailing growth—the branches 
procumbent or trailing ; leaves ( minute ) ovate, and 
fmall flowers, fucceeded by black berries.—Native of 
the cold parts of Europe, on mountainous and boggy 
places. ( Moijl foil.) 
This under-fhrub may be admitted in fmall fhrub- 
bery clumps for variety, allotting it a moill fituation ; 
may be planted in autumn or fpring, placing it fome- 
what forward in the intended compartments; is pro¬ 
pagated by feeds, layers, and off-fet and fuckers from 
the bottom. Sow the feed in the fpring in a ihady 
border of moill foil; and the plants, when of a few 
inches growth, tranfplanted, either where they are to 
continue, or in a nurfery, to obtain a little flxength for 
final planting ; layers of the branches in autumn or 
fpring will root freely ; and off-fets or luckers may be 
taken up at the fame feafons, with roots, and planted. 
Ephedra, SHRUBBY HORSE-TAIL. 
Clafs and Order. 
Dioecia Monadelphia, 
Two Habitations, One Brotherhood 5 
Or Male and Female Flowers difind, on two feparate 
Plants, and the Stamina of the Males joined in one 
Body. 
THE Ephredra comprehends two fpecies of fmall 
Ihrubby ever-greens, employed in Ihrubberies for orna¬ 
ment and variety ; are fmall under-fhrubs of three Or 
four met growth, branching in many {lender rulhy- 
like fhoots, and fimilar fmall, jointed leaves, and male 
and female flowers, feparate on two diilindt plants, col- 
lefted in amentums or catkins; the flowers are without 
corolla or petals, males feven ilamina in one body, 
and in the female florets two oval germens and fhort 
ftyles ; the germen grows a fmall berry-like fquamous 
fruit with two oval feeds, which, when they can be 
obtained, may be fowed to raife the plants; but thefe 
are more generally propagated by fuckers, or occali- 
onally by layers. 
The Species of Ephedra are, 
I. E r h e d r a difiachya, Twin-fpiked, Shrubby Horfe- 
Tail. 
A fmall, Ihrubby ever-green, three feet high— 
the fhoots and leaves fmall, rulhy-like, jointed, and 
peduncles or flower-ftalks oppofite, with the flower- 
fpikes or amentums in pairs.—Native of Narbone in 
France, and Spain, on rocks and hills by the fea. 
(Bny common foil.) 
2. Ephedra moncfiachya, Single-fpiked Dwarf 
Shrubby Horfe-Tail. 
. A low under-lhrubby ever-green, two or three feet 
high—the fhoots and leaves fhorter and fmaller ; many 
peduncles or flower-ftalks ; and the flower-fpikes or 
amentums folitary or fingle. —Native of Siberia, oa 
mountains and ilerile places. {Hny dry foil.) 
% Thefe two Ihrubby ever-greens are admitted in cu¬ 
rious fhrubbery colle&ions for the Angularity of their 
growth, in which they effedl an agreeable diverfity at 
all feafons of the year in their fhoots and leaves : they 
may be obtained for planting, at moll of the nurferies, 
m autumn or fpring ; may be planted in any common 
foil, and Ihould generally have a forward fituation to¬ 
wards the front part of the intended compartments of 
fhrubbery clumps, &c. 
They are propagated principally by fuckers, which 
may be taken off in autumn or fpring with roots, form¬ 
ing at once rooted young plants, and either planted 
where they are to remain, or in a nurfery for a year 
or two, or till they acquire more flrength and larger 
fize for final tranfplanting. 
Likewife many propagate them by layers, in the 
autumn or fpring, and will be rooted for planting off 
the autumn following. 
Epig^ea, TRAILING ARBUTUS. 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Ten Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Fltinuers, having each 
ten Stamina or Males, and one Pif ilium or Female 
Part. 
ONE fpecies, a trailing, creeping evergreen, flovv- 
ering-lhrub of fmall growth, adorned with ovate leaves, 
and loofe, teiminal bunches of monopetah us, white 
flowers, havirg a double. Ax-leaved calyx or cup, a 
tubulous, falver-lhape corolla, of one petal, cm at top 
into Ave parts; ten Ilamina, a globofe germen crowned 
by a quinquefid or Ave-part lligma, fucceeded by a 
roundilh pentangular fruit with many feeds; by which 
the plant may be raifed ; but it commonly propagates 
plentifully by its rooting branches and off-fet fuckers $ 
likewife by layers and cuttings. 
One Species, viz. 
Epig/ea repens , Creeping Epigaea, or Trailing 
Arbutus. 
A low, trailing ever-green, with creeping, rooting- 
fhoots; — leaves ( fmalljh ) ovate-oblong, rough ; 
and 
