Of TREE?, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
Hearted, almoft three-lobed roundifh crenated, and 
heart-fhape ftipula; and peduncles or flower-ftalks ag¬ 
gregated, producing each one large, pale-purple flow¬ 
er.—Native of Spain. {.Dry, warm, or fandy foil.) 
3. Lavatera micans , glittering Tree Mallow. 
Anupright, fhrubby-ftalked plant, growing five, to fix 
or feven feet high—the ftem tree-like, lhrubby; leaves 
{large, /oft) feven-angled, acute, crenated, plaited 
and hoary; and. terminal racems of purple flowers.— 
Native of Spain and Portugal. {Dry, or fandy foil.) 
4. Lavatera olbia, Olbian lhrubby Lavatera. 
An upright, Ihrubby-ftalked plant, growing four or five 
feet high—the ftem lhrubby; leaves {large, foft) ftve- 
lobed, halbert-form; and large purple flowers, fingly. 
—Native of France, &c. {Moftly dry,. warm foil.) 
5. Lavatera luftanica, Lufltanian, or Portugal, 
lhrubby Lavatera. 
An upright, Ihrubby-ftalked plant, four or five feet high 
—the ftem lhrubby; leaves {larger,foft) feven-angled, 
plaited, and hoary; and terminal racems of purple 
flowers.—Native of Portugal. {Dry, warm foil.) 
Of the above five lhrubby fpecies of Lavatera, the 
firft is the hardieft and the molt commonly cultivated 
in the full ground, the ftem tall and Angle; is fome- 
what between a lhrubby and herbaceous nature; fome-/ 
times decays in a year or two in winter, or if planted 
in a dry, lean, or rubbilliy foil, it will fometimes 
Hand feveral years: may be planted in any dry fitua- 
tion in the fhrubbery, or where required; the other 
four are more tender, Ihould have a warm, dry Atua- 
tion, or fandy foil ; and will continue of feveral years 
duration, in root and ftem ; though it is alfo proper to 
have a plant or two of each of thofe four forts in pots, 
to remove to Ihelter of a green-houfe in winter, as 
fometimes thofe in the open ground are killed, or much 
cut, by the effefts of rigorous frofts in fevere feafons. 
They being all propagated by feed, and the fhrub- 
by kinds alfo by cuttings, Ihould generally be tranf- 
planted, young, where they are to remain; or the 
feed fowed in the places where they are to continue. 
To propagate thefe plants from feed, fow it in 
March or April, in a bed of light earth, for tranf- 
planting in fummer or next? autumn, or following fpring, 
into the fhrubbery, &c. to remain, efpecially the firft 
fpecies; or may be fowed in patches, in the places where 
the plants are to Hand, and thinned, while young, to 
one of the ftrpngelt in each patch; and thus continuing, 
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not having any check by removal, they grow more 
ftrong, hardy, and durable; or the four tenderer 
lhrubby forts, being fowed in beds, may both tranf- 
plant fome young into the fhrubbery, or borders, and 
fome fingly, in pots, to have protection in winter the 
firft year or two, then turned into the full ground in the 
fpring; others continued in the pots for moving unde? 
Ihelter conftantlyin winter, in frofty weather. 
Or to propagate the four fhrubby forts by cuttings* 
of the Ihoots, item, or branches, is performed in the 
fpring, March, or April; when, taking off fome cut¬ 
tings, fix or eight, to ten or twelve inches long, plant 
them either in a border of light earth, or in pots of 
a fimilar foil, giving moderate watering when the earth 
dries, they will root the fame year; or in a hot-bed* 
or covered down with hand-glaffes, will loot fooner, 
and (hoot at top; and when fully rooted, and formed 
fome top growth, they may be tranfplanted finally, 
fome into the fhrubbery, borders, &c. others into 
pots, fingly. 
Laurus, BAY TREE, of the 
Clafs and Order 
Enneandria Monogynia, 
Nine Males, One Females ; 
Or Plants with Flowers {Hermaphrodite) having nint 
Stamina, or Males, and one Pi/tillum, or Female . 
THIS Genus, Laurus, furnifhes four hardy fpe¬ 
cies of moderate tree kinds, comprifing one fine aro¬ 
matic ever-green, and three deciduous; all principally 
for ornamental plantations, fhrubberies, &c. grow fif¬ 
teen, to twenty or thirty feet high in the different fpe¬ 
cies; adorned with fpear-fliape, oblong, and three- 
lobed leaves, all of moderate fize; and fmall hexape- 
talous yellowilh and whitilh flowers, without any ca¬ 
lyx, or cups; a corolla, ccmpofed cf fix oval petals, 
containing nine ftamina; an oval germen, fupporting 
one fiyle; and the germen grows an oval, unilocular 
red berry, having one oval hard feed, or nut; and the 
berries ripen plentifully in autumn and winter, in the 
Common Bay particularly, for fowing; the others not 
fo abundant; but generally procured from A.merica, by 
the feedfmen; and by which the different fpecies are 
propagated, alfo by layers and cuttings of the young 
fi toots. 
The hardy Species of LAURUS are, 
1. Laurus nohilts, Noble, or Common Bay Tree. 
A moderate ever-green tree, branchy from the bot¬ 
tom, growing twenty to thirty feet high—the leaves 
{middling f.ze, dark-green) ovate-fpear-lhape, veined, 
and perennial, or remaining all the year; and quadrifid 
yellowifh 
