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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
Where any are trained in efpaliers, they (hould be 
managed as diretted above for the wall Figs, in re¬ 
gard to the fummer and winter-pruning. Sec. 
Early Figs are obtained by having trees planted in 
forcing'-houf'es, or hot-walls. Sec. and forced by means 
of fire-heat, commencing in January or beginning of 
February, and continued every night and cold days all 
the fpring months, til! the beginning or middle of 
May; thereby forwards the trees in fruiting, to pro¬ 
duce ripe fruit in June and July, and fometimes will 
furnilh a fecond crop ripening in September. 
They may be forced along either with other choice 
fruit-trees, as peaches, ne&arines, vines, Sec. or in a 
feparate or dillind forcing-houfe or hot-wall, &c. as 
may be convenient. 
The trees for this purpofe iliould be fuch as are 
trained principally in the wall-tree manner, or fome 
occafionally in fmall dandards : they are planted in the 
borders of the forcing apartments, either in young 
plants, or trained trees, obtained at the nurferies, to 
commence bearing as foon as poffible, and may fome¬ 
times be procured in pots, for tranfplanting, with balls of 
earth to their roots, or fome to continue in the pots for 
forcing; or the trees may be removed fuccefsfully from 
the full ground: they (hould be planted in the forcing 
places principally in autumn, about October or No¬ 
vember, placed fome in the borders towards the back 
wall, and the branches trained to a light treliis-work 
of pods and rails; the forcing them by fire may be 
commenced the latter end of January, or beginning or 
middle of February; but the glades may be put on 
clofe a month or more before, to protedt the (hoots 
from frod, and prepare the trees for forcing; in which 
make moderate fires in the furnace of the flues every 
evening, and fupported till nine or ten o’clock to heat 
the flues fufficiently, to warm the internal air till morn¬ 
ing, when alfo make a moderate fire, and in very cold 
weather may be continued all day; and when the trees 
begin to bud, admit air, in mild, open weather, in the 
warmed time of the day, cfpecially when funny ; and 
as the warm feafon advances, encreafe the portion of 
air, by drawing open fome of the top or front glades 
two or three to five or fix inches, (hut clofe when cold ; 
likewife give occafional waterings to the borders, and 
over the branches of the trees ; fo continuing the af- 
fidance of fire-heat, frelh air, water. Sec. till May, 
the Figs will fet in tolerable abundance, (well, and 
begin to ripen in J une or J uly. 
Or fometimes the trees are forced by means of bark- 
bed heat, having a long capacious pit within the forc- 
ing-houfe, in which is made the bark-bed, in January 
or beginning cf February, to continue in conflant heat 
day and night ; or the forcing is fometimes effe&ed 
by bark-bed and fire heat together, making the fires 
dnly principally of nights or cold mornings. 
Gaultheeia —(GAULTHERIA) 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Ten Males, One Female ; 
Or Flowers (Hermaphrodite) having ten Stamina or 
Males, and one Pijiillum or Female. 
THIS Genus, Gaultheeia, furnilhes but one 
fpecies, a low, trailing, ur.der-fhrubby ever-green, 
having ovate leaves, and fmall greenilh flowers, with 
a double calyx, and a monopetalous five-parted co¬ 
rolla, containing ten fianuna, and one piilillum, or 
flyle, fucceeded by* a pentangular capfule, with many 
feeds, by which the plant is propagated, and by layers 
and cuttings. 
One Species, viz. 
Gaultheeia procumbens. Procumbent or Trailing 
Gaultheria. 
A fmall, trailing under-lhrub, of two or three feet 
growth—the leaves (fmall) ovate.—Native of Ca¬ 
nada. (Sandy, or any common foil.) 
This fmall (hrub is admitted in fhrubberies for va¬ 
riety and ornament, may be obtained at the nurferies, 
and planted in autumn or fpring; and is propagated 
by feed, fowed in March or April; and the plants of 
one or tw o fummers growth, tranfplanted in nurfery- 
rows, to acquire ftrength for the (hrubbery; likewife 
by layers and cuttings of the trailing (hoots, in au¬ 
tumn or fpring, will be rooted in one fummer. 
Genista, Dwarf, or JOINTED BROOM. 
Clafs and Order. 
Diadelphia Decandria, 
Two Brotherhoods, Ten Males ; 
Or Flowers (Hermaphrodite) having the Stamina or 
Males difpofed in two Sets, and in each Flower ten 
Stamina. 
THE Gev.ijla Family comprife eight or ten hardy 
fpecies of fmall deciduous flowering-flmibs, very flo- 
riferous and ornamental for adorning the (hrubbery ; 
are of moderate, or fmall, and (lender growth, two 
or three to four or five feet; garnilhed in fummer with 
fmall ovate-lanceolate, fpear-lhape, linear, and ter- 
nate leaves in the different fpecies, and many papilio¬ 
naceous yellow flowers, fingly, and in bunches at 
the fides and ends of the branches ; having mo- 
nophyllous, or one-leaved, two-lipped calyxes, a 
corolla of four unequal petals, confiding of an oval 
reflexed vexillum, or ftandard, two (hort wings, and 
