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confmcuous to fight, ? *' where they may not be 
overipread by larger . . j. 
They re propagated by ofF-fet bottom fuckers from 
the roots, and occafionally by layers and feed; the 
fuckers may be detached in autumn or fpring, and 
planted in a nurfcry till they acquire a little ftrength 
for the Ihrubbery, or fome planted therein at once to 
remain: layers and cuttings In the fpring will be rooted 
by the following autumn; or cuttings or flips of any 
principal forts planted in pots in the fpring, and plung¬ 
ed in a hot-bed, or covered clofe with a hand-glafs, it 
will forward their rooting fooner. 
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Or where feeds can be obi ained, they may be fowed 
in the fpring, in a bed of light earth; and when the 
plants are come up, and advanced a few inches in 
growth, (hould be tranfplanted in nurfery-beds, or 
lome of the tendered forts planted in pots, to move 
under fhelter in winter. 
When the plants, raifed by either of the above me¬ 
thods, are of one or two feet growth, they may be 
tranfplanted in the places where intended. 
Euonymus— (Euonymus) or SPINDLE TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males, One Female', 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having Jive 
Stamina or Males, and one Pijlillum or Female. 
THE Euonymus comprife two principal fpecies. 
Confiding of a large deciduous flowering-lhrub, or 
fmall tree, and an ever-green of middling growth, 
with feveral varieties of the former, and one of the 
latter; all employed in the Ihrubbery plantations for 
variety and ornament; are of upright branchy growth, 
gamiihed with oblong-ovate, and fpear-fliape leaves; 
and fpreading whitifh flowers, in cluflers and fingly; 
having in each flower a monophyllous or one-leaved 
Cup, four or five-parted, a corolla of four or five oval 
(^reading petals, five ftamiua and one piflillum; and 
the germen grows a quadrangular and pentangular fuc- 
culent capfule, of five loculi or cells, furnifhed with 
red berry-like feeds; the capfules, when ripe, opening 
naturally and difclofe the feeds, ripening in autumn; 
and by which, and by layers and cuttings, the fpecies 
are propagated. 
The Species of EUONYMUS are, 
l. Euonymus europ/eus , European, or Common 
Spindle Tree. 
A large deciduous Ihrub, or fmall tree, growing 
twelve to fifteen feet high—the leaves (moderate ftxe) 
IGETABLE SYSTEM. 
oblong-ovate, and white flowers moftly quadrifid or cut 
into four parts; fucceeded by four-cornered feed-pods, 
opening when ripe, and difclofe the red, granulous 
feed.—Native of England and moft parts of Europe, 
in hedges, &c. (Any common foil.) 
Varieties. — ( — tenuifolius) or Small-leaved Common 
Spindle Tree. 
(—lat if otitis) or Broad-leaved Common 
Spindle Tree. 
Striped-leaved Common Spindle Tree. 
Red-leeded Common Spindle Tree. 
Pale Red-feeded 
White-feeded Spindle Tree. 
z. Euonymus amerieana, American Ever-green 
Spindle Tree. 
A middling fize ever-green Ihrub, growing fix or 
eight feet high—the leaves fpear-fliape, ( middling 
fixe) and all the flowers quinquefid or five-parted.— 
Native of Virginia. ( Any common J'oil.) 
Variety. —Striped-leaved Ever-green Spindle Tree. 
Thefe (Kt-ubs are adapted to aflemble in any com¬ 
mon Ihrubbery compartments and other decorative 
plantations, in pleafure-grounds, both as flowering- 
Ihrubs; and the firft fpecies alfo for the curious Angu¬ 
larity of its feed-pods, opening naturally, and difplay 
the red, granulous feeds very ornamentally in autumn, 
and great part of winter; and the fecond fort is a 
fhewy ever-green fhrub, to increafe the variety in 
compartments of that tribe, or where it may be re¬ 
quired ; are all very hardy, will grow in any common 
foil and fituation, and are eafily raifed by feed, layers, 
and cuttings. 
They are cultivated in all the nurferies for fale, in 
which they may be had, of proper growth for plant¬ 
ing, in autumn or fpring, or any time in open weather, 
from Oilober to March. 
To propagate or raife fupplies of thefe flirubs, it is 
effefted by feed, layers, and cuttings, as before inti¬ 
mated. Sow the feed in autumn or fpring, in a bed of 
common earth, and covered in about an inch deep; 
and when the plants are one or two years old, plant 
them into the nurfery to obtain proper growth for 
final tranfplanting in (hrubberies, or where they may 
be defigned: layers of the lower lhoots and branches, 
in autumn or fpring, will root in one fummer, to plant 
off in the proper feafon following; and cuttings of the 
young (hoots planted in a fhady border, will alfo emit 
roots and grow. 
In the different methods of propagation, when the 
plants advance in growth, prune them up a little be¬ 
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