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THE GARDENER’9 
2. Lavandula Stoechas —(Stoechas) or French La¬ 
vender. 
A final!, (hrubby plant, of two feet growth—tire 
leaves ( fmall, narrower) fpear-lhape, linear; and 
tufted fpikes of purple flowers; July and Auguft.— 
Native of the fouthern parts of Europe. (/lay common 
foil and fituation.) 
Both thefe fpecies of Lavandula are fine, aromatic 
under-fhrubs, of upright, (lender growth ; produce nu¬ 
merous fpikes of flowers of great fragrance, and for 
which the Common Lavender is cultivated in kitchen- 
gardens, and producing its flowers in perfe&ion in July 
and Auguft; are gathered for domeftic occafions, fuch 
as to put in fmall paper bags to lay among cloaths to 
perfume them with their aromatic odour; alfo in laiger 
quantities to diftil for Lavender water, &c. and both 
the fpecies are eligible to plant in (hrubberies, as flow- 
«ring-(hrubs, difpofed towards the front parts, accord¬ 
ing to their degrees of growth, in afiemblage with other 
fmall (hrubs; likewife to plant in borders.; and, in all 
of which, trained in bufhy heads, will make an agree¬ 
able variety at all feafons, and flower ornamentally in 
fummer. 
They may be procured at the nurferies for planting, 
in autumn or fpring, and are eafily raifed plentifully by 
flips and cuttings. 
To propagate thefe plants, take off a quantity of 
the fide young (boots, in March, April, or May, 
cither (lipped off by hand, or cuttings with a knife, 
five, fix, eight or ten inches long; trim away the under 
leaves, and plant them in a (hady border, watered in 
dry weather: they will root freely and foon, the fame 
year, (hoot at top, and form little bufhy plants, by the 
end of the fummer, for tranfplanting, where they are 
to remain in autumn or fpring following. 
When required for kitchen-garden culture, for the 
flowers, (hould cultivate principally the Common Blue- 
fpiked Lavender, and planted either in beds or borders, 
eighteen inches or two feet diftance, -to grow in Angle, 
bufliy plants, or occafionally planted as an edging along 
the front of a border, either in (lips or cuttings, 
planted at once to remain fix inches afunder in the 
row, or in rooted young plants, raifed as above, and 
kept regular by clipping every fummer; or where con- 
fiderable fupplies of flowers are required, they may 
be planted in continued rows, three feet afunder, to 
have room to advance in full growth, to produce large 
■crops of flowers accordingly: in fome of the extenfive 
Litchen grounds, in the neighbourhood of London, as 
about Batterfea, and places adjacent, they plant vaft 
quantities in Angle rows, between the large breaks of 
ground, to furnilh large production# of flowers for the 
fiipply of the markets. 
VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
In the above different methods, the plants (hould be 
permitted to grow in full heads, and they will produce 
plenty of flowers every fummer, which attaining per¬ 
fection in July and early part of Auguft, (hould be 
gathered in dry weather, for the particular or different 
ceconomical purpofes for which they are required and. 
adapted ; the plants will continue many years, and 
when they grow naked, ftubby, or of a decaying na¬ 
ture, raife frefh fupplies in due time to fucceed them 
in proper growth. 
For (hrubberies,borders, &c. in the pleafure-groumj, 
both the fpecies of Lavender are eligible, as before 
intimated; and may be planted in any common foil, 
and buffered to grow up in full heads. 
Lavatera —(Lavatera) or TREE MALLOW. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monadelphia Polyandria, 
One Brotherhood, Many Males ; 
Or Plants with Flowers (Herm.) having all the Sta¬ 
mina joined in one Set, or Brotherhood', and numerous 
Males, or Stamina, in each Flower. 
THIS Genus furnifhes feverai (hrubby-ftalked, mal— 
vaceous plants, growing with an upright. Angle Hem, 
four or five, to eight or ten feet high, terminated by 
bulhy heads; and gamifhed with large, roundi(h, 
three, five, and feven-lobed, foft, downy leaves, and 
terminating the top in a tuft; and largilh, purple 
flowers, Angly and in clufters, compofed of five heart- 
fhaped petals ; including many (lamina, monadelphous,, 
or united below in one bet; an orbicular germen, fup- 
porting a (hort llyle, and fucceeded by many feed- 
capfules collected into a head, having each one 
kidney-lhape feed, and by which the plants are 
raifed; and fome alfo by cuttings of the items and. 
(hoots. 
The hardy, (hrubby LAVATERAS are, 
1. Lavatera ariorra, Tret-like Lavatera, or Tree 
Mallow. 
A tall, upright plant, with a Angle, herbaceous-like 
(talk, growing eight or ten feet high—the Item tree-like 
Angle; leaves {large, foft) feven-angled, plaited and 
downy; and peduncles or flower-ftalks at the axillas 
of the leaves and Item, crouded, having each one 
purple flower.—Native of Italy. {Dry y or any com¬ 
mon light foil.) 
2. Lavatera triloba, Three-lobed leaved Ihrubby 
Lavatera. 
An upright, (hrubby-ftalked plant, growing four or five 
feet high— the Item Ihrubby; leaves {large) fomewhat 
hearted. 
