Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 113 
full hedge, plants of three to four, or five feet, might 
be fuccefsfully planted; or by feed, fotvcd in a drill 
where the hedge is intended, and the plants to remain; 
and in either methods train them regular in their ad¬ 
vancing growth, by clipping the fides once or twice 
every fumm*, and may either be kept of a moderate 
height, of three or four feet, by clipping them at top 
to the height required, or permitted to run five, fix, 
or feven feet high, cutting them in gradually narrowing 
or tapering, on each fide to the top, which, when 
of the defined height, may alfo be clipped even. 
Liquid am bar, STORAX, or Sweet Gum 
Tree. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Polyandria, 
One Habitation, Many Males; 
Or Flowers, Male and Female, feparate, on one or the 
fame Free, and the Males banting many Stamina. 
THE Liquidambar comprifes two fpecies of 
elegant, deciduous trees, for ornamental plantations, 
being of ftraight, handfome growth, rifing twenty to 
thirty feet high ; adorned in fummer with largifh, pal- 
mated-angular, and oblong foliage, imparting a fweet, 
gummy, fragrant fubftance, and male and female 
flowers apart on the fame tree; the males in conic 
amentums, and females globofe perianthums; have 
four-leaved and double involucrums, and with a bell- 
fhape cup to each floret, but no petals; numerous fta- 
mina in the males, and in the females two piftillums or 
ftyles, fucceeded by a globular body of many roundiih 
capfules, filled with obldng feeds; not ripening plen¬ 
tifully in this country, but procured in abundance from 
America by the feedfmen, and by which, fowed in the 
fpring, the trees are railed; and are alfo propagated 
by layers. 
' Two Species, viz. 
1. Li quid amb ar, Styraciflua — (Styraciflua) or 
Styrax-flowing Liquidambar. 
A middling, deciduous tree, growing twenty or 
thirty feet high—the leaves {moderately-large, lobated ) 
palmated-angular.—Native of Virginia and Mexico. 
(Light or moijl foil.) 
2. L1 qu 1 d a m b a r afplenifolium, Spleen-wort-leaved 
Liquidambar. 
A moderate, deciduous tree, growing twenty feet 
high—the leaves ( [mailer, cut-divided) oblong, alter¬ 
nate, finuated.—Native of North America. (Light 
or any common foil.) 
Both thefe are fine ornamental trees, to affift in com- 
pofing principal decorative plantations in plealure- 
grounds, and in forming curious fhrubberies, clumps, 
&c. in aflemblage principally with other deciduous, 
trees, and large fhtubs of the more curious, defirable 
kinds; or in any general or particular diftriCts, as may 
be required, or thought eligible; and for which occa- 
flons, young trees, of proper growth, may be pro¬ 
cured at moll: of the nurferies, and planted in the ge¬ 
neral feafons of autumn or fpring. 
The propagation of thefe trees is by feed and lay¬ 
ers, in the fpring and autumn: fow the feed in March 
or April, in a bed of light earth. Or in pots of the 
fame foil; and covered in with earth an inch deep, 
they will come up the fame year : give the plants oc- 
caflonal protection in winter from fevere frolt, and 
when of one or two years growth in the feed-bed, tranf- 
plant them in the fpring into nurfery-rows; where train 
each with a Angle Item, run them, with the top-fhoot 
entire, to afpire in height, pruning off lateral growths 
below, and permitted to branch out above in regular 
heads; and when about four or five, to fix or eight 
feet, are proper for the plantations in which they are 
defigned. 
Layers of the young wood, in the lower, pliant 
branches and fhoots, in the autumn, or early fpring 
months, will root in one year, and fhould then be 
planted off in the above-mentioned feafons into the 
nurfery, and ordered as advifed for the feedling-trees. 
The trees, raifed by either of the methods, as 
above, when of fome advanced growth in the nurfery, 
three, four, or five, to fix or feven feet, may have 
their final tranfplanting, as required, in the plantations 
where they are defigned to remain, for ornamenting the 
pleafure-ground: may be performed in autumn, in 
OClober or November, or any of the fpring months, 
from February to April. 
Liriodendron (Lily Tree) commonly called TU¬ 
LIP TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Polyandria Polygynia, 
Many Males, Many Females', 
Or Plants with Flowers ( Hermaphrodite) having many 
Stamina, or Male generative Organs, and many Pif¬ 
tillums, or Females. 
THIS Genus furnifhes but one hardy fpecies; a fine, 
lofty-growing, deciduous tree, of handfome, ftraight 
P growth. 
