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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
tree fpecies, as the Virginia Red Cedar, &c. may alfo 
affemble in plantations of ever-green foreft-trees: they 
may be procured at the nurferies, of proper growth 
for planting, one, two, or three, to four or five feet, 
in proportion to tire natural fizes of growth of the 
different fpecies, and planted in the proper feafons. 
The principal feafon for removing and planting thefe 
trees, is either in autumn, the middle or latter end of 
September, any time in October and November, or 
all principally in the fpring months ; or the hardier 
kinds. Common Juniper, Virginia Cedar, and Savins, 
might be occafionally planted in winter, in mild, open 
weather, more efpecially where convenient to remove 
any with balls; and by which mod of the others may 
be tranfplanted, though, for the more tender forts, 
early autumn or fpring planting is mod advifeable. 
With regard to the order of planting them, as before 
obferved, they having particular merit to plant in 
principal fhrubberies, and other ornamental didrifts, 
in affemblage modly in ever-green plantations, fhould 
be difpofed in a divernfied manner, and placed accord¬ 
ing to their fizes of full growth, the lower ones da- 
rioned, more or lefs, towards the front, and the taller 
behind; fome alfo planted fingly upon open fpaces of 
grafs-ground, of lawns and plats, and in fpacious bor¬ 
ders, &c. and, in their advancing growth, differed to 
grow nearly in their natural manner, branchy from or 
near the bottom, in full growth upwards; or, occa- 
fionally, the larger tree kinds may be pruned up gra¬ 
dually, from lower branches, to advance with a clean 
Hem below; or the whole permitted to grow natural, 
only pruning up cafual, low, draggling, or diforderly 
branches, and encouraged to grow up full above. 
Sometimes the larger, hardy Cedar kinds are affem- 
bled in ever-green fored-tree plantations; particularly 
the Virginia Red Cedar, or the other tree forts occafion- 
ally; and, in their advancing growth, have the low, un¬ 
der branches pruned up moderately by degrees, to form 
them with clean dems below; but this pruning of thefe 
kinds of refinous, ever-green trees, fhould be performed 
with much diferetion, only gradually as they increafe in 
height, and permitted to branch out upward in full 
head^. 
Formerly, fome of thefe fpecies of Juniperus were 
planted to form ornamental garden hedges; and fome- 
times planted detached, and trained in pyramidal fi¬ 
gures. 
The propagation, or method of raifing the different 
fpecies of Juniperus, is principally by feed ; and fome 
alfo occafionally by layers and flips, or cuttings of the 
young fhoots, particularly the Savins; but the Ju¬ 
niper and Cedar kinds are mcftly raifed from feed. 
The feed is fowed in the fpring, in a bed of light 
earth, 'each fort feparate, and covered in with mold, 
half an inch to an inch deep; they will co ne up f 0m e 
the fame year, others probably not ti’l the fpring f c [_ 
lowing ; or fome of the foreign, or more render forts' 
might be fowed in pots, and plunged in a hot-bed, to 
forward them the fame year, and fhould be expofed’ by- 
degrees to the full air: keep the whole clean from weeds* 
and give moderate watering in dry, hot weather in 
fummer; ana the young plants, of one or two years old 
tranfplanted in the fpring, in nurfery-beds, in rows 
inches to a foot afunder, to advance in growth, for a 
year or two, and then tranfplanted in wider rows two 
feet diflance, to acquire proper growth, generally per¬ 
muting them to branch out from the bottom in their 
natural way ; or may only prune any low, under-ftrag- 
glr.ig fhoots, and let all the others, and the top-fhoot 
advance m full growth, to proper fizes, for the intended 
plantations. 
. ®r, t0 propagate them by layers, flips, or cuttings, 
it may be performed in any of the forts occafionally, in 
want of feed, or principally the Savins; duffing’for 
layers, the young, under-branches, furnifhed with young 
fhoots, which, in the fpring, lay in the earth, they 
will be rooted in one year; and flips or cuttings of the 
young fhoots, planted in March or April, will emit 
roots, and grow; and when the whole, both layers, 
cuttings, &c. are properly rooted, next fpring, trarff- 
plant them in nurfery-beds, &c. to obtain U requifite 
growth, as advifed in the feealing-plants. 
Ka lmi a —(KALMIA) or Dvva rf-Laure t,. 
Clafs and Order, 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Ten Males, One Female', 
Or Plants ’with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having ten 
Stamina, or Males, and one Pijlillum, or Female . 
THIS Genus, Kalmia, confifls of two fpecies of 
very beautiful ever-green flowering-fhrubs, for adorn¬ 
ing the fhrubbery, flower-borders, &c. are of upright, 
moderate growth, with branchy, bufhy heads, orna¬ 
mented with ovate and fpear-fhape leaves; and fine or¬ 
namental red flowers, in terminal and lateral, corymbus 
clufters, moft beautiful; having a five-parted perma¬ 
nent calyx to each flower; the corolla, or flower morso- 
petalous tubular, divided above into five fegments, 
and contain ten ftamina and one piftillum; fucceeded 
by a roundifii, quinquelocular, or five-celled capfule, 
furniflied with fmall feeds; and by which the plants 
are raifed, like wife by fuckers and layers. 
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