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Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS'. 
Or the Laurus afivalis, being tenderer, it, and 
fome of the other American forts, may alfo be planted, 
while of young growth, from the feed-bed into pots, 
fingly, to place under Ihelter from froft the firft year 
or two, or till they obtain ftrength, then turned out, 
with balls, into the full-ground, in a warm fituation; 
efpeciaily the former mentioned. 
Layers of the lower young (hoots, in fpring or au¬ 
tumn, will root in one year; generally performing it 
by flit-laying, gafliing or flitting the Ihoots a little on 
the under flde, that part layed in the earth, three 
inches deep, keeping the fli open, and the top upright 
above ground, pegged down, and earthed in the above 
depth; and when rooted, cut them from the ftocls, and 
plant them in the nurfery, to acquire proper growth 
for the Ihrubbery, &c. 
Suckers often arife abundantly from the roots of the 
Common Bay, which may be digged up with roots to 
each, in autumn or fpring, and planted either where 
they are to remain, or in a nurfery, for one, two, or 
three years, to obtain larger growth for the intended 
purpcfes. 
When the young trees, railed by any of the above 
methods of prop"gation, are advanced two or three, 
to four or five feet in growth as before intimated, they 
are of proper f;z:s for final tranfplanting in Ihrubberies, 
and other places, where they are to remain. 
In the final planting of thefe trees, in Ihrubberies 
and other plantations, generally difpofe the Common 
Bay with ever-greens of iimilar growth, either to grow 
up tall in ftandards, or to advance in bufliy heads, 
branchy almoft from the bottom ; and the other three 
fpecies introduce principally with other deciduous kinds, 
in fomewhat flickered, warm fituations, efpeciaily the 
Laurus teJUvalis, or planted againft a fouth wall, as 
this is rather tenderer than moll of the other fpecies ; 
or may alfo plant fome in pots, to remove under fhelter 
in winter, as being liable to fuffer by rigorous froRs, 
and is therefore aifo generally kept among the green- 
houfe exotics, though, when planted in a fheltered 
place, as above, in the full ground, will Hand our 
ordinary winters tolerably well, and harden by de¬ 
grees. 
When defigned to plant the Common Bay, for a 
garden hedge, it fhould generally be planted in young 
growth, of one or two to three feet, fet a foot afun- 
der ; or if fpreading plants, may be planted eighteen 
inches dillancc: permit them to run up at top, and 
the projedling fide-lhoots cut regular in fummer, never 
cut in winter; or may occafionally plant fome hedge- 
wavs, to cover any naked, unfightly walls, palings, &c. 
and the branches nailed thereto in a fpreading man¬ 
ner. 
Ledum, MARSH CISTUS, or Wild Rofemary. 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Ten Males , One Female ; 
Or Plants with Flowers (Herm.) having ten Stamina 
and one Pijlillum. 
THIS Genus is compofed of low, under-lhrubby 
ever-greens, of fmall, bufliy growth, ornamented with 
fmall, linear, and ovate leaves, and fmall, corymbus' 
bunches of reddifh flowers, confining of five fmall 
petals, ten llamina, and one pillfllum; fucceeded by 
roundifh capflfles, furniihed with many feeds, by which, 
lowed in a moift border, the plants are raifed; likewife 
Dy oft-fet root-fuckers. Layers and flips. 
The Species are, 
J. Ledum palufre, Marfh Ciflus Ledon, or Wild 
Rofemary. 
A fmall, low, under-fhrubby ever-green, two feet 
growth—the leaves (/mail, narrow) linear, hairy on 
the under-flde, and fmall flowers in a corymbus.— 
Native of the northern parts of Europe, in marfliy 
ground. (Moiji , or marjhy Jituation.) 
Varieties .—Larger, Upright, Wild Rofemary. 
Smaller, Procumbent, Wild Rofemary. 
2. Ledum latfolium. Broad-leaved Marfh Ciflus. 
3. Ledum long folium. Long-leaved Marfh Ciflus. 
4. Ledum thymifolium, Thyme-leaved Marfh Ciflus. 
These are ail fmall, under-flirubs, moflly inhabitants 
of marfliy and boggy fituations : triey may be planted 
in fomewhat fimilar foils, or any moill flirubbery clumps, 
borders, or where convenient, for variety; and are 
propagated by r parting the roots, or detaching, or flip-, 
ping the off-fet fuckers, alfo by lay'ers of the branches ; 
and by feed, fowed in autumn or fpring, in a fhady, 
moifl fituation; and planted out where they arc to remain* 
Licustrum, PRIVET. 
Clafs and Order. 
Diandria Monogynia, 
Two Males, One Female', 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite FOwens, bavin* two 
Stamina, or Males, and one P if ilium, or female. 
THE Licustp.um confifls of mod hardy, large, 
bufliy fhrubs, deciduous and ever-green, eligible lor 
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