Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
diftance, having the drills one to two inches deep, the 
berries, or feed, fowed moderately thick, and earthed 
over; and when the plants are come up, if too clofe, 
fome may be drawn out; or, for a moderate hedge, 
efpecially in any internal divifion, a fingle row of 
plants, or feed, may be fufiicient: keep the whole 
clean from weeds ; or, if any are in outward hedges 
for fences, &c. they fhould be defended on the out- 
fide, either by a ditch, rails, paling, &c. or a Hake 
and bufn-hedge, while the plants are advancing. 
In the advancing growth of the hedge, give a requi- 
fite training, when they advance in ftrong fide-lhoots, 
by cutting them moderately, to form and thicken the 
hedge, permitting it to fhcot in height, or only cutting 
any run-away top-fhcot; or top the whole but little, or 
very moderately, till the hedge is arrived to the height 
intended; then fhould have a regular clipping annually, 
in fummer, at fides and top, to keep the hedge regular; 
generally, in hedges intended to run up high, fhould 
clip them up taper, or gradually thin, or narrowing to 
the top, cutting both fides equally. 
The hedges railed and trained as above, will require 
an annual clipping once or twice every fummer; ( never 
cut in winter) but to preferve the hedge in the moft 
regular, neat order, two clippings in fummer would be 
Bccefiary, the firll in June, and the fe:ond cutting in 
Auguil; but, if they have only one clipping, July or 
Augull is the proper lime to perform the operation: 
generally keep the hedge of a moderate width, a 
foot to fifteen or eighteen inches, for low or middling 
hedges, cut even at fides and top, but lofty hedges 
kept as thin at top as poffible, run up t in a tapering 
manner, as before obferved. 
It e a-CITEA.) 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males, One Female ; 
Or Flowers ( Hermaphrodite) having Jive Stamina , or 
Males , and one Pijillum, or Female. 
THIS Genus fumifhes but one fpecies,an ornamental, 
deciduous, flowering-fhrub, for beautifying the flirub- 
bery; is a fhrub of middling growth, adorned with 
fpear-fhape leaves, and terminal fpikes of white flowers, 
each flower having a monophyllous, five-parted calyx, 
a corolla of five petals, containing five flamina and a 
permanent ftyle, fucceeded by an oval capfule, termi¬ 
nated by the perfiftent ftyle, and furnifhed with oblong 
feeds, by which the fhrub maybe propagated; alfo by 
layers, cuttings, and fuckers. 
One Species, viz. 
Itea virginica, Virginian Itea. 
A middling, deciduous fhrub, growing five or fix 
feet high—the leaves (middle fze) fpear-fhape, alter¬ 
nate ; and fpikes of white flowers terminating the ends 
of the fhoots very ornamentally in fummer.—Native of 
Virginia. (Moijl, or any common foil.) 
Varieties. —Major, or Greater Virginia Itea. 
Minor, or Lefs Virginia Itea. 
This beautiful, flowering-fhrub claims a place in all 
principal fhrubberies, in which it will make a fine ap¬ 
pearance in its numerous, floriferous fpikes; may be 
procured at the nurferies, for planting, which is per¬ 
formed either in autumn or fpring, allotting it a confpi- 
cuous fituation; and is propagated by layers and cut¬ 
tings of the young lhoots, in the above feafons: they 
will be rooted in one year; alfo by fuckers from the 
roots; likewife by feed fowed in the fpring, in a bed 
of light earth; or, as the feed fometimes remains in the 
ground till the fecond fpring, before it grows, it may 
be fowed in pots, to place in a fhady border in fummer, 
and under fhelter in winter, or may be forwarded in a 
hot-bed in the fpring. 
Iva, FALSE JESUITS BARK Tree. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Pentandria, 
One Houfe, Five Males ; 
Or Flowers, Male and Female, difindl on one or ths 
fame Plant, and the Males have fve Stamina. 
THE Iva, confiding of one fpecies, is a large, 
deciduous fhrub, admitted in fhrubberies to encreafe the 
variety; is of upright growth, garnilhed in fummer with 
fpear-fhape leaves, and clufters of fmall purple flowers, 
male and female, feparate on the lame plant; having a 
roundifh, general calyx, containing many florets, of 
one funnel-ftiaped petal in the males, no petals in the 
females; and in the former, five fmall ftamina; in the 
latter, two hair-like ftyles, and fucceedcd in the female 
flowers by naked feeds in the calyx; and by which, 
fowed in the fp ing, the tree is raifed, and likewjfo 
freely by layers and cuttings. 
One Species, viz. 
Iva frutefens. Shrubby, Falfe Jefuits Bark. 
A deciduous fhrub, of large growth—the ftems 
fhrubby ; leaves (long) fpear-fltape, fawed ; and cluf- 
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