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p TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and fruits. 
in pots, may be moved under Ihelter of a frame, or 
awning in winter, and, when the weather is fevere, 
defended with glades, mats, &c. 
Menispermum, MOON-SEED, of the 
Clafs and Order 
' Dioecia Dodecandria, 
¥wo Habitations, Twelve Males ; 
Or Male and Female Flowers, feparate, on two dijlintt 
Plants ; and the Males having twelve Stamina. 
THE Menispermum furniflies two hardy, lhrub- 
by, deciduous climbers, of volubilate,.or twining 
growth, proper to introduce in lhrubberies, &c. for 
variety; grow with long, flender, twining Items, af- 
cending upon trees, poles, &c. many feet high ; gar- 
niflied with large, fhield-fhape, hearted, and lobated 
leaves, and loofe bunches of greenilh flowers, male 
and female, on two feparate plants, compofed each of 
twelve oval petals; containing, in the males, twelve 
ltamina, and in the females, two germens and ftyles; 
fucceeded by roundifb, kidney-form berries, furnifhed 
with kidney-lhape feeds, by which the plants may be 
railed, but are more generally propagated by layers, 
or flips of the off-fet fhoots, or bottom-fuckers, and 
by parting the roots. 
The Species are, 
1. Menispermum canadenfe, Canada round-leaved 
Moon-Seed. 
A volubilate-climbing, fiirubby plant, with long, 
flender llalks, afcending twelve or fifteen feet high— 
the leaves [large) peltate, or (hield-fhape, hearted, 
roundifh-angular; and nodding racems of flowers.— 
Native of Virginia and Canada. [Light or any com¬ 
mon foil.) 
2. Menispermum virginicum, Virginia lobated- 
leaved Moon-Seed. 
A volubilate-climbing, fhrubby plant, afcending 
ten or twelve feet high—the leaves [large) peltate, or 
Ihicld-fliape, hearted, lobated; and loofe racems of 
flowers.—Native of Virginia and Carolina, near the 
fc a. [Light or any common foil.) 
Thefe two (hrubby climbers may be admitted for 
variety in lhrubberies, and other plantations in plea- 
fure-grounds, to twine round the Hems of large trees, 
or tall poles; and planted to run over arbours, rural 
feats, or where they may be required, to advance in a 
climbing growth, they will twine round anyfupport; 
or may be trained againfl: walls, or other fences; and 
for which occafions, plants of both the fpecies may be 
had at the nurferies, for planting in autumn or fpring; 
and may be propagated by layers of the Ihoots, and 
olf-fet bottom-fuckers, and by flips of or parting the 
roots; all performed in the fpring or autumn; alfo by 
feed fowed in a bed of light earth; and when the 
plants, raifed by any of thefe methods, have attained 
one, two, or three years growth, they may be tranf- 
planted in the places where intended. 
Generally, in planting thefe climbers, either allot 
them a place where they may have fupport of trees, 
arbours, &c. to afeend upon, or to have tall (lakes or 
poles placed whereon, to climb in their volubilate man¬ 
ner; in which they may be permitted to run nearly 
in their natural order, except pruning cafual, drag¬ 
gling, or very diforderly (hoots, and to cut out decayed 
parts; or if any are planted againfl walls, or other 
fences, the Hems may be nailed thereto, as prattifed 
for honey-fuckles, &c. and to prune out the fuper- 
abundant (hoots, produced annually. 
Mespilus, (MEDLAR) or Medlar Tr^. 
Clafs and Order. 
Icofandria, Pentandria, 
Twenty, or more Males, Five Females ; 
Or Plants with Flowers [Hermaphrodite) having twenty 
or more Stamina, or Male Parts, and Jive Pifils, or 
Females. 
THE Mespilus, or Medlar, comprile fruit-trees, 
feveral fpecies of deciduous, flowering-lhrubs, and 
One curious, (hrubby ever-green ; the fruit-tree kinds 
valuable to cultivate for their fruit, of lingular pro¬ 
perty ; and likewife, together with the other different 
fpecies, are in eftimation to introduce in (hrubberies, 
and other decorative plantations, for ornament and 
variety: are of different degrees of growth, fifteen or 
twenty feet in the tree kinds, the lhrubs three or four, 
to five, fix, or eight feet or more; garnilhed with 
middling, large and fmall, fpear-fliape,. oblong and 
oval leaves; and pentapetalous, rolaceous, large and 
fmall flowers, fingly, and in duffers, at the fidcs and 
ends of the branches; having monophyllous, or one¬ 
leaved cups, divided into five parts; five roundilh 
petals; twenty or more (lamina, round germen with 
five ftyles; and the germen grows a globular, hard, 
umbilicated, baccated, or berried fruit, large, mid¬ 
dling, and fmall in the different fpecies; and which, 
in fome, acquires the fize of middling, or fmall apples 
and pears, as in the Common Medlar, (the principal 
eatable fort) others much fmaller, and fome like fmall 
berries; but eatable principally only in the Common 
Medlar, aforefaid; and in all of which, contain five 
hard, gibbous feeds, by which the trevs. See. may be 
raifed, alfo by layers, grafting, and inoculation. 
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