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THE GARDENER'S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
One Species, viz. 
Or both the fpecies, and refpedlive varieties, may 
be expeditioufly raifcd, by cuttings of the rooting 
young (hoots and branches, in autumn rr fpring; 
which being cut off and planted, will moli fre ly grow, 
either planted where they are defigned to remain, or 
in a nurfery, for a year or two, or till wanted tor the 
purpofes intended ; they will likewife grow freely by 
layers; and alfo the Common Ivy, furnilhing plenty 
of ripe feed, may be raifed by fowing it in a fhady 
border, and the feedling-plants tranfplanted as above. 
When deligned to plant thefe Ihrubs as climbers* 
they may be fet clofe to walls, pales, buildings, &c. 
or near the Items of large old trees, they will Ihoot, 
and affix their rooting fibres therein, afcend in height, 
and fpread on every fide, without any future culture, 
except to cut out cafual dead wood; or, in particular 
compartments, the Common Ivy may be planted de¬ 
tached, and trained with an upright item and branchy 
head ; or in fome places, as in the borders of lhady 
walks, &c. be permitted to run on th,e ground, and 
cover the furface, keeping it trimmed within proper 
bounds. 
Hibiscus (Syrian Mallow) ALTHAEA Fru- 
tex, (Shrub Althsea.) 
Clafs and Order. 
Monadelphia Polyandria, 
One Brotherhood, Many Males ; 
Dr Plants with Flowers (Hermaphrodite') having all 
the Stamina, or Males, united in one Set, and with 
numerous Stamina in each Flower . 
THIS Genus, Hibiscus, furnilhes one hardy, 
fhrubby fpecies, a large, upright, deciduous, very 
ornamental flowering-ihrub, growing with a regular, 
branchy, bulhy head; adorned in fummer with wedge- 
fhape-lobate leaves, and numerous, large, beautiful 
flowers, in daily fucceffion; having double, many- 
parted cups, five heart-lhape petals, many joined fta- 
mina, and one ftyle, fucceeaed by capfules, containing 
kidney-lhape feeds; by which, fowed in the fpring, 
the (hrub is propagated; alio by layers and cuttings of 
the young Ihoots. 
Principal Characters. —Calyx of the flower double 
and permanent, compofed of an outer feries of many 
narrow leaves, an inner, monophyllous, or one-leaved 
cup, cut into five acute parts, at the brim; a 
corolia of five broad heart-fhape petals, joined at the 
bafe; many (lamina joined in a column below, expand¬ 
ing at top, and crowned with kidney-fhape anthera ; a 
rcur.difh germen, (lender ftyle, terminated by a round 
ftigma; the germen grows a five-valved capfule, of 
iive cells, containing kidney-fliape feeds. 
Hibiscus fyriaca, Syrian Shrubby Hibifcus, com-- 
monly called Althaea Frutex. 
A deciduous (hrub, of branchy growth, five to fix 
or feven feet high—a tree-like ftem; the leaves (mo¬ 
derate) wedge-lhape-cvate, the upper parts cut-in¬ 
dented, fometimes three-lobed; and many large flow- 
ers*at the (ides of the branches, in July or Auguit, 
till September.—Native of Syria. (Light, or any 
common foil.) 
Varieties .—Purple-flowered Althaea, with dark bot¬ 
toms. 
Red and white-flowered, with dart 
bottoms. 
Bright-purple-flowered, with black bot¬ 
toms. 
White-flowered, with purple bottoms. 
Yellow-flowered, with dark bottoms. 
Variegated-flowered, with dark bottoms. 
Silver-ftriped leaved. 
Gold-ftriped leaved. 
This is an admirable fine flowering-(hrub, to plant 
for ornamenting (hrubberies, and other parts of plea- 
fure and flower-gardens; in which, when in flower, it 
makes a Angularly fine appearance, for a month or 
five weeks, and one of the fined ornaments of the 
feafon ; begins flowering, fometimes the end of July, 
but principally in Auguft; the flowers numerous, and 
continue in abundant fucceffion all that month till Sep¬ 
tember ; and therefore, this fine (hrub deferves a prin¬ 
cipal fituation in (hrubberies, and is adapted to place 
fmgly on plats, borders, &c. 
The different varieties are cultivated, for fale, at all 
nurferies, where they may be obtained in coileftion, 
or any particular variety; and planted in autumn, or 
any time from Odtober or November to March, or 
beginning of April, or principally in the fpring months. 
They are propagated by feeds and layers, or the 
varieties by grafting upon feedling-docks, of any of 
the forts. 
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* 
To raife them from feed, few it in the fpring in a 
bed of light earth, or feme fewed in pots, and if 
plunged in a gentle hot-bed, it will forward the germi¬ 
nation of the feed, and the plants v ill come up much 
feoner, when they fnould be expefed by degrees to 
the full air; however, they will alfe fucceed, fewed 
in the common ground, or in pots, to move co a fhel- 
tered place in winter, to preteft the yourg plants from 
fro ft; and in fpring, in March or beginning of Apiil, 
tranfplant them in nurfery-rows in beds, or fene 
planted 
