Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
may be required for variety or ornament to particular 
1 compartments. 
The propagation, or ways of raifing Honey-fuckles, 
is principally by cuttings and layers of the young 
Ihoots, in fpring or autumn; fome alfo by fuckers from 
the root, especially the Lo nicer a Diervilla, or moil of 
the forts by feed. 
By cuttings and layers, is performed in autumn or 
fpring, chufing, for cuttings, fome ftrong (hoots of 
lad fummer ; cut them into lengths of fix or eight, to 
ten or twelve inches; plant them by dibble, in a fnady 
border, or where convenient, in ro%vs a foot afunder, 
by fix inches in the row, inferted half way into the 
ground, thev ,vi!l be well rooted by the following au¬ 
tumn; and for layers, the young (hoots, as above, are 
alfo proper, which fhorten to moderate lengths ; or 
prune down the weak tops, lay the ftems in the earth, 
three or four inches deep, the top part feveral inches 
above ground, they will be well rooted by the end of 
fummer. for planting off in autumn or fpring, into the 
nurfery, or where they are to remain; and, in either 
method of propagation, train the young plant with a 
fingle item below, fhorter or longer, fix or eight, to 
twelve, fifteen, or eighteen inches, or two feet, or 
more, as required, for particular occafior.s, agreeable 
to the foregoing intimations ; and permitted to (hoot 
out above into branches for the head, which may have 
the long dragglers pruned more or Iefs, as may feem 
neceffary, according to their nature of growth, or order 
of training intended, as before explained. 
Suckers arifing from the roots of any particular forts, 
as the Diervilla, &c. before hinted, may be (lipped 
off with roots, in autumn or fpring, and planted in 
a nurfery; or ftrong ones, where they are to continue 
as may be thought convenient. 
Or alfo by feed of the berries, fowed in the autumn 
or fpring feafon, in a bed of common earth, many 
young plants will come up, which, in autumn or fpring 
following, may be pricked into qurfery-beds, in rows 
a foot afunder, and managed as advifed for the cuttings 
and laycr-raifed plants. 
The plants,- raifed by either of the above methods, 
when advanced one, two, or three feet in the principal 
ftem and heaJ, are of proper fizes for planting in the 
different, or any particular compartment intended. 
Thofe of the principal climbing kinds, defigned to 
plant againft walls, one, two, or more plants, as 
thought expedient, (hould have them run with feveral 
Ihoots or branches from near the bottom, and trained 
in moftly at their full length, in fummer; or only prune 
very difordetiy dragglers; and in winter, referving 
the ftrongeft, cut out the weak, and prune the weakly 
tipper parts of the remaining, and then nailed up re¬ 
gular; and thus forming a proper fpread of branches, 
by degrees, to furnifh the allotted lpace, they will 
produce plenty of young wood, annually, in fummer, 
for flowering, which manage as above; and when any 
principal branches fail, have young Ihoots trained in 
below to fupply the place thereof. 
Or where any are planted to twine round flakes, 
trees, or to run over arbours, bufhes, &c. their fhoots 
at firft, being conducted to their refpedtive fupports, 
will moftly attach themfelves thereto; giving occa- 
fional afiiftance of tying, and extending where necef- 
fary; and to prune diforderly, rambling Ihoots. 
And thofe planted detached in dandard fhrubs, 
trained with fingle ftems, more or lefs, and full heads, 
will require to have the long, ftraggling fhoots, 
pruned in, to continue the head fomewhat regular, as 
before obferved. 
Lotus, BIRD’S-FOOT TREFOIL. 
Clafs and Order. 
Diadelphia Decandria, 
fu'5 Brotherhoods y Ten Males ; 
Or Plants 'with Flowers ( Herm .) having two Sets of 
Stamina, or Males, and ten Stamina in each Flower. 
THE Lotus furnifhes two hardy fpecies of low, 
under-fhrubby flowering-plants, proper to admit in 
fhrubberies; are of upright growth, garnifhed with 
trifoliate, or three-lobed leaves, or compofed each of 
three diftinct lobes; and heads of papilionaceous, or 
butterfly-fhape flowers, of four irregular petals; con¬ 
fiding of a roundifh, reflexed vexillum, or ftandard, 
two broad, roundifh wings, a fhort carina or keel be¬ 
low ; with ten (lamina in two fets, or nine joined, one 
feparate, and oblong, taper germen, fupporting a 
Angle ftyle, fucceeded by (mall, cylindric, and ovate, 
bivalve pods, having many internal partitions, contain- 
ng each one feed, by which the plants are propa¬ 
gated; likewife by flips, cuttings, and off-fets.. 
The Species are, 
1. Lotus hirfutus, Hirfuted, or Hairy BirdVFoot 
Trefoil. 
A fmall, deciduous under-fhrub, of low, upright 
growth—the Item ere£t, hairy; leaves {/mail) trifo¬ 
liate; with hirfuted or fhaggy heads of flowers; and 
fhort, ovate, or egg-formfeed-pods.—Native of France, 
Italy, and the Eall. {Dry, warm final ion.) 
2. Lotus reflus, Straight-podded Bird’s-Foot Trefoil. 
A fmall, deciduous under-fhrub, of low, upright 
growth—the ftem ereft; leaves {/mall) trifoliate; 
fub- 
