,•8 THE GARDENER’S V 
fuo-g!obofe heads of Rowers, and ftraiglit, fmootit 
iced-pods .Native of France, Sicily, and Calabria. 
{D/y, warm ftuatian.) 
Thefe two fpecies are a fort of undcr-fhrubby, her¬ 
baceous-like, perennial plants, eligible to introduce in 
fmall Ihrubbery compartments, borders, &c. for or¬ 
namental flowering and variety: they are propagated 
by feed, fowed in the fpring, in a warm border, and 
the plants pricked in nurfery-beds for a year or two, 
to gain ftrength, then tranfplanted where they are to 
remain; alfo by flips or cuttings of the fhoots in fpring 
or fumtner, planted in a fhady border; and byoft-lcts 
of die roots, parted in the fpring or autumn. 
Lycium, EOX-THORN. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males, One Female ; 
Or Flowers (Hermaphrodite') having five Stamina, or 
Males, and one P if ilium, or Female. 
THIS Genus, Lycium, furnifhes feveral fhrubby 
ever-greens, of upright and trailing growth, admitted 
im fhrubberies for variety, fome of which being rather 
tender, require a warm, fheitered fltuation, others are 
of a more hardy nature; moftly armed with thorns, 
and garnifhed with fmall and middling fpear-fhape and 
ovate, oblong leaves; and funnel-fhape, purple and 
white flowers; having five-parted, permanent cups; 
a monopetalons corolla, funnel-lhape, tubular below, 
divided above in five parts; five ftamina, and a round- 
ifh germen, fupporting a Angle ftyle; and the germen 
grows a roundifh, bilocular berry, containing many 
kidney-lhape feeds; by which the ftmibsare fometimes 
propagated, or more generally by layers and cuttings 
of the young wood. 
The Species and Varieties are, 
r. Lycium barbarum. Barbary Box-Thorn, or Rofe- 
mary-leaved Lycium. 
A middling flirub, with whitilh branches, and of 
five or fix feet growth, armed with thorns-—the leaves 
{fmall, whitijh) fpear-fhape, narrow, and of thickifh 
fubftance ; and the calyx of the flowers bifid or two- 
parted.—Native of Afia, Africa, and fouthern parts 
of Europe. {Warm, Jheltered ftuation, and dry foil.) 
Varieties .— Upright, Barbary Box-Thorn. 
Trailing Barbary Box-Thoro. 
EGETABLE SYSTEM 
2. Lyciup . jinenfe, Chinefe, Trailing Box-Thorn; 
(fuppefed a variety of the Lycium barbarum.) 
A trailing, climbing, fhrubby plant, extending ten 
or twelve feet, or more, armed with Morns—the leaves 
( middling) ovate fpear-fhape. Native of Afia, &c, 
( Any common foil and warm ft.at ion.) 
Varieties. —Broad-leaved Chinefe Box-Thorn. 
Narrow-leaved Chinefe Box-Thorn. 
Thefe fhrubs are proper to aftemble in curious fhrub¬ 
beries ; but being moftly fomewhat tender, more par¬ 
ticularly the Lycium barbarusn, fhould have a warm, 
dry fituation, or fome alfo kept in pots to remove 
under fhelter of a frame, or green-houfe, in winter; 
the Chinefe fort is more hardy, to fucceed in any com¬ 
mon expofures, or may be planted againft a warm wall, 
&c. both for the advantage of training their trailing 
branches thereto, and to afford them lhelter more be¬ 
neficially from froft; or if planted detached in the 
Ihrubbery, fhould have fupport of flakes. 
They may be procured at mod of the principal 
nurferies, for planting, which fhould be performed 
either in autumn, about Odober or November, or in 
the fpring. 
The propagation of all the forts is principally by 
cuttings and layers of the young fhoots; plant the cut¬ 
tings principally in the fpring, and may perform the 
laying alfo in that feafon, or in the autumn; they will 
be rooted in one year; or cuttings of fmall lhoots 
might be planted in pots, and plunged in a hot-bed in 
the fpring months, to forward them in rooting fooner; 
and, in either method of propagation, forward the 
plants in a fheitered part of the nurfery; or fome pro- 
teded in winter, from froll, till they obtain ftrength; 
then may be tranfplanted into fhrubberies, or where 
they are to remain. 
They are alfo raifed from feed, occafionally, where 
attainable; fowing it in the fpring, in a warm fitua¬ 
tion, or in pots, and placed in a moderate hot-bed, in 
which the plants will come up fooner, and be forwarded 
in growth, giving them plenty of air, and occafional 
waterings, and have the full air all fummer; and, in 
either method, the young plants fhould be pricked in 
fmall pots, fingly, to place under fhelter a year or two, 
or till they acquire fome tolerable ftrength, and gradu¬ 
ally hardened, then tranfplanted into the full ground; 
or fome continued in pots, of proper fizes, according 
to the advanced growth of the plants. 
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