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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
yellowifti flowers, that are aioicous or fometimes male 
nnd ferrale, on two different trees.—Native of Italy 
and Greece. {P’Jj light, or any commonftil.') 
Varieties.— Broad-leaved Common Bay. 
Narrow-leaved Common Bay. 
Waved-leaved Common Bay. 
Striped-leaved Common Bay. 
Double-flowered Common Bay. 
i. Lausus ajHvalis, Summer-leaved, or Deciduous 
Bay Tree. 
A (mail, deciduous tree, growing ten or twelve to 
fifteen feet high—the leaves (middling) oblong-ovate, 
acuminate or pointed, veined, and annual or decidu¬ 
ous ; and white flowers. Native of Virginia, near 
rivers. ( Moiji or any foil, and warm fituation.) 
3. Laurus Benzoin —(Benzoin) or Benjamin Tree. 
A {mail, deciduous tree, growing twelve or fifteen 
feet high—the leaves ( middling , light-green) ovate, 
■enervate, or without veins, both ends pointed, deci¬ 
duous.—Native of Virginia. (Warm, dry ftuation.) 
4. Laurus —(Saffafras) or Saflafras Tree. 
A fmall, deciduous tree, twelve or fifteen feet high 
—the leaves (middling, light-green) three-lobed and 
intire.—Native of Virginia, Carolina, and Florida. 
(Warm fituation, moifi or any common foil.) 
Varieties. —Three-lobed and intire-leaved Saflafras 
Tree. 
Undivided, bay-leaved Saflafras Tree-. 
All thefe fpecies of Laurus are defirable, ornamental 
trees, to affemble in principal plantations and fhrub- 
beries; the fir ft of which, in the different varieties, as 
fine ever-greens, trained either in taller ftandards with 
a Angle ftem, in which they will grow fifteen to twenty 
feet high, or more; but as the Bays often rife with 
feveral ftems, branchy to the bottom, in a fhrub-like 
growth, fome mayalfo be cultivated accordingly; and 
the other three, being deciduous, are proper to intro¬ 
duce in the moil confpicuous plantations of deciduous 
trees and fhrubs; and all of which, both of the ever¬ 
green and deciduous kinds, may be trained, fome in 
the ree way, with a Angle ftem below, and full heads 
above, and others to grow fhrub-like, in a bufhy or¬ 
der; and the Common Bay, in its branchy growth, is 
likewife proper to train for handfome ever-green 
hedges, either kept regular by an annual clipping in 
Cummer, or permitted to run up rough, nearly in a 
natural growth, and the long-proje&ing and rambling 
(hoots cut in with a knife: this tree alfo admits of train¬ 
ing in ftandards, for introducing in ever-green tree 
plantations, having the lower and under boughs pruned 
up by degrees, and it will fhoot up faft above, form 
a beautihii head, and make a fine appearance at all 
feafons, 
Moll of thefe trees are of att aromatic and odorife¬ 
rous quality; and for which property, the leaves of 
the Common Bay are often ufed in culinary occafions; 
and this, and fome of the others, are alfo efteemed very 
falutiferous in a medical way; but, particularly, the 
Saflafras is much recommended for Saflafras tea, be¬ 
ing a flrong, aromatic, and efficacious purifier; the 
wood of which, cut into fmall flips, is the part ufed, 
and of which great quantities is imported in this coun¬ 
try, for the druggifts; and being prepared into chips, 
aforefaid, is ready for ufe, as above, in which it is 
both palatable and wholefome, well fweetened with fu- 
gar, and mollified with plenty of milk, or cream. 
Thefe four fpecies of Laurus are cultivated, for 
fale, at moft of the public nurferies, where they may 
be procured of proper growth, two, three, or four, 
to five or fix feet high, for planting; though, if only 
two or three to four feet, will generally be more fuc- 
cefsful than if tranfplanted of larger Azes, efpecially 
the Common Bay ; and which, where convenient to 
remove them with balls of earth, will be of greater 
advantage, particularly for large full plants. 
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The general feafon for removing and planting thefe 
trees, of all the forts, is eithei-ln Odtober or Novem¬ 
ber, or in the fpring months. 
The propagation, or method of raifing the different 
fpecies, is by feed, layers, and fuckers. 
The feed, or berries, for flowing, are obtained of 
the feedfmen, and at many of the principal nurferies: 
they may be fowed in autumn or fpring; though as 
thofe of the deciduous kinds are commonly received 
from America, they feldom arrive before the fpring 
feafon : flow all the forts in beds of light earth, either 
in drills, or broad-caft, and covered in evenly an inch 
deep; or fome might be fowed in pots, in the fpring, 
efpecially the American kinds, and plunged in a mo¬ 
derate hot-bed to forward them; and in all of which 
give gentle waterings, kept clean from weeds all fum- 
mer, prote&ed from froft in winter; and when the 
plants are of one or two fummers growth, fliould be 
tranfplailted in nurfery-beds, where, advancing ia 
ftrength, one or two years, may be tranfplanted in 
wider nurfery-rows, or fome where they are to remain; 
or when thofe continued longer in the nurfery are from 
two or three, to four or five feet, are proper for the 
plantations in which they are intended. 
Or 
