Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
One Species, viz. 
Ham am elis virginiana, Virginian Hazel-leaved 
Hamamelis, or Witch Hazel. 
A moderate deciduous Ihrub, three or four feet 
high—the leaves ( middling ) ovate-roundilh, indented 
on the edges, and placed alternate; and fmall clutters 
of flowers late in autumn.'—Native of Virginia. {Moifl, 
or any foil.) 
This Ihrub is introduced in flirubberies, for variety; 
and for which occafion, may be obtained at the nurfe- 
ries, and planted in autumn, winter, orfpring; and 
is propagated by feeds and layers; the feeds commonly 
obtained from America, with others, in the fpring, 
when they may be fowed in beds or pots of common 
earth ; they will probably not come up till the fe- 
cond fpring, and in the interim, thofe in pots may 
have fhelter in winter; the plants coming up in the 
fpring aforefaid, may be tranfplanted in autumn or 
fpring following, in the nurfery, and in two or three 
years, will be of proper growth for the Ihrubbery: 
layers of the young branches will be rooted in one 
year for tranfplanting. 
Hedera, IVY TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having five 
Stamina , or Males, and one Pifl ilium, or Female. 
THE Hedera furnilhes two noted fpeciesof fhrub- 
by, climbing plants; one an ever-grecn, the other de¬ 
ciduous, remarkable for their lofty, climbing growth, 
amending, by their rooting-ftems, upon walls, build¬ 
ings, trees, &c. fifty or fixty feet, or more; garnifh- 
ed their whole length with lobated ovate, and five- 
lobed leaves, in the different fpecies; and umbellate 
or corymbus clutters of fmall greenifh flowers, of five 
petals, having five ftamina, an oval germen below, 
fuppordng one ftylus; and are fucceeded by clutters of 
round berries, containing four or five feeds, ripe in 
autumn and winter; and by which the plants may be 
raifed, alfo by cuttings and layer. 
Generic Characters. —Flowers in umbellate or co¬ 
rymbus bunches, furnifhed with a many-parted gene¬ 
ral involucrum, and to the flowers, a five-parted ca¬ 
lyx, fitting on the germen; a corolla or flower, five 
oblong fpreading petals, with the points incurved; 
the ftamina five awl-lhaped filaments, crowned by 
proftrate anthera, two-parted at the bafe; a roundifh 
germen under the flower, having a fhort ftyle, termi¬ 
nated by a Angle ftigma; and the germen grows a 
globular, unilocular berry, containing four or five large 
gibbous feeds. 
The Species of HEDERA are, 
1. Hedera Helix —(Helix) or Common Ever-green 
Ivy. 
A mod lofty-climbing, fhrubby ever-green, mount¬ 
ing, by its rooting-ftems, forty or fifty to fixty feet 
high, or more—the leaves ( middling, dark~green) ovate 
and lobated; clutters of greenifh flowers in autumn. 
—-Native of England, and moll parts of Europe, in 
woods and hedges. {Any foil and fituation.) ' 
Varieties. —Common green Ivy. 
Silver-ftriped-ieaved Ivy. 
Gold-ftriped-leaved Ivy. 
Black-berried Ivy. 
Yellow-berried Poet’s Ivy. 
Dwarf-creeping Ivy. 
2 . Hedera quinquefolia, Five-leaved deciduous Ivy, 
or Virginia Creeper. 
A moft lofty-climbing, deciduous fhrubby plant, 
afeending, by its rooting-ftems, thirty to forty or fifty 
feet high, or more—the leaves (middling, light-green) 
compofed of five oval, fawed lobes, expanding in a 
fingered manner.—Native of Virginia, Canada, and 
other parts of America. {Any foil and fituation.) 
Thefe two fhrubby climbers are moft hardy and 
lofty growers, in their climbing nature, by their root¬ 
ing ftems, emitting cirrhofe fibres into walls, bark of 
trees, &c. attaching themfelves clofe thereto, and 
mount to the tops; fucceed in any foil, and in clofe and 
open expofures; and are therefore eligible to plant, 
as climbers, againft walls, buildings, fences, &c. in 
particular parts, where required to have them covered, 
-or for variety ; or likewife to plant againft large old 
trees to afeend upon their Hems ; or the Ivy to plant, 
detached, in fhrubberies, and trained to flakes, in up¬ 
right* ftems and bufhy heads ; or, in want of fupport, 
will run along the ground, root, fpread, and cover the 
furface; and the Hedera quinquefolia, or Virginia Creep¬ 
er, is often planted in courts, yards, areas, and in ci¬ 
ties and towns, as frequently pradlifed in London, to 
afeend upon and cover naked walls, in which the ttein 
will root, and thereby mount to the tops of the higheft 
buildings; and for which occafion it may be planted 
in clofe, or open places, as it will thrive any where, 
in fituations where other plants will not profper. 
Plants, of the different forts for planting, may be 
had at the nurferies, in young growth, and planted in 
autumn or fpring. 
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