THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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minal clutters of yellow flowers; May, June, &c.— 
Native of Spain and Narbonne. 
All thefe ftirubbv Geniftas are eligible, as flowering- 
fhrubs, for adorning fhrubbery compartments of the 
pleafure-grour.d, and are hardy to grow in moil fix¬ 
ations, in dry, or almoft any common foil ; proper to 
affemble with other {hrubs of fimilar, moderate, and 
fmall growth, and will effeft an agreeable diverfity and. 
ornamental appearance in their flowering feafon, Mny, 
June, July, &c. and all or moft of the fpecies 
may be obtained at the nurferies for planting, efpecially 
the firft fix or feven forts; and planted in autumn or 
fpring, or any time in mild open weather, from October 
to March or April; placing them more or lefs forward, 
according to their different fizes, and in diverfified 
order. 
They are propagated principally by feed, fowed in 
Oftober or November, or in the fpring months, Feb¬ 
ruary, March, or beginning of April, on beds of 
light earth, either in drills or broad-cafl, and earthed 
in an inch deep ; and the young feedling-plants, when 
of one or two fummers growth, tranfplanted into nur- 
fery-rows in autumn or ipring, to train for the Ihrub- 
bery, permitting them to grow with branchy heads, 
one to two or three feet, for finaltranfplanting. 
Gleditsia, THREE-THORNED ACACIA. 
Clafs and Order. 
Polygamia Dioecia, 
Many Marriages , Two Habitations'; 
Or Flowers of different Sexes-, as Males, Hermaphrodite , 
and Females, on two dif ind Plants. 
THE Family of Gleditfia confifts of deciduous orna¬ 
mental trees of the pinnated-leaved tribe, moft defina¬ 
ble to introduce in all pleafureable plantations; are ofmo- 
derately-large growth, with fpreading branches,in fome 
armed with ftrong thorns, and all adorned, in fummer, 
with beautiful doubly-pinnated or winged leaves, com- 
pofed each of many pair of pinnae, or diftind lobes, 
arranged along both fides of the pedicles or main foot- 
ftalks; and long, cylindric, and loofe amentums, of 
fmall, greenilh, and purple colour, tripetalous, and 
five-petalled, of three different fexes, as males, her¬ 
maphrodite, and females, on two diftinft trees, fur- 
nilhed with three and five-parted calyxes, a fmall co¬ 
rolla, of three to five rottndiih petals, fix ftamina in the 
males and hermaphrodite flowers, and in the latter and 
the females a broad germen, fupporting one ftylus ; 
and the germen grows a large, flat, legumenous peri- 
carpiutn, containing round hard feeds; and by which 
the trees are principally raifed, by fowing them in the 
fpring. 
Generic Characters, —Male, hermaphrodite, and fe¬ 
male flowers, on two feparate trees; the males and her¬ 
maphrodite on one, and the females on the other; the 
males and hermaphrodite flowers produced in long, 
cylindric, compadt amentums, having fmall three-leaved 
cups, three roundilh-fpreading petals, fix fmali ftami¬ 
na, longer titan the petals, crowned with oblong com- 
prefl'ed antbera; the hermaphrodite flowers being in 
the end of the fame catkin, have alio cups, petals, and 
ftamina, like the males, and with a germen and ftylus ; 
the female flowers, on a feparate tree, in loofe catkins, 
have five-leaved cups, five oblong petals, a broad ger¬ 
men, longer than the petals, having a reflexed ftyle, 
terminated by a thick ftigma; affd the germen, in the 
hermaphrodite and female flowers, grows a large flat 
pod, of feveral tranfverfe partitions, each containing 
one roundilh hard feed, furrounded by a foft pulp. 
The Species and Varieties of GLEDITSIA are, 
i. Gleditsia triacanthos, Triple or Thrce-thorned 
Acacia. 
A large deciduous tree, growing thirty or forty feet 
high—armed with long, ftrong, triple thorns at the ax- 
illas or angles of the ftem and branches; the leaves 
{long, fining) pinnated or doubly-pinnated, of many 
pair of fmall pinna; or lobes; greenilh flowers, and very 
long feed-pods.—Native of Virginia and other parts of 
North America. {Loamy , or any common foil.) * 
Variety. — (Gleditsia triacanthos monofperma) 
Monofpermous or Single-feeded Gledit¬ 
fia, or Water Acacia. 
A middling tree, growing thirty feet high 
—armed with long triple thorns; the 
leaves (fmallcr) pinnated, of many pair 
of fmall lobes; greenilh flowers, and 
oval pods, having generally but one 
feed.—Native of Carolina and North 
America. (Loamy, or any foil.) 
2 . Gleditsia inermis. Unarmed, or Thornlefs 
Eaftern Acacia. 
A moderate deciduous tree, growing twenty feet 
high—the ftem and branches without thorns; leaves 
(long, fplendent) doubly-pinnated, of many pair of 
fmall folioles; purple flowers.—Native of the Eaft. 
( Any common foil.) 
Thefe beautiful deciduous trees merit admittance in 
all principal decorative plantations, in pleafure-grounds, 
parks. 
ii. Genista italica, Italian Genifta, or Lucca 
Broom. 
