Or TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 127 
For planting, young plants may be obtained at moft 
of the principal nurferies; the proper feafon for which 
is March and April; and being generally in pots, 
they may readily be turned out, the ball of earth in¬ 
tire, to plant in the full ground, if required; or con¬ 
tinued in pots, to move under fhelter in winter; or 
any planted in the natural ground, being allotted a 
warm fituation, may alfo have occafional covering of 
mats in fevere, frolty weather. 
The trees are propagated by feeds, or occafionally 
bv layers and cuttings; fow the feed in the fpring, in 
pets of light, rich earth, and plunged in a bark or 
dung hot-bed; and layers and cuttings of the young 
fhoots in pots, may be affnted by the fame means, 
efpecially the cuttings; and in either method of pro¬ 
pagation, the raifed plants fhould be fet fingly in pots, 
and fhelter in winter, till they obtain fome degree of 
ftrength, then fome may be tranfplanted into the full 
ground, in fituations before-mentioned. 
Medicago (Medic) MOON TREFOIL. 
Clafs and Order. 
Diadelphia Decandria, 
Two Brotherhoods, Ten Males ; 
Or Flowers ( Hermaphrodite) having two Sets of united 
Stamina, or Males, and ten Stamina in each Flower. 
THE Medic ago affords one beautiful, fhrubby 
ever-green, very commonly retained as a green-houfe 
plant, as being a native of the warm parts of Europe, 
is rather tenderifh ; but is alfo cultivated in curious 
flirubberies, in a fheltered, warm fituation; is of mo¬ 
derate or middling growth, upright and bulhy, clofely 
garnifhed with fine, trifoliate leaves, and papiliona¬ 
ceous, yellow flowers, in long clufters; having to each 
flower a bell-fhape calyx five-lobed; a corolla papili¬ 
onaceous, of four unequal petals, confiding of an oval- 
reflexed ftandard, two oblong wings, and a bifid, re¬ 
flexed carina, or keel; ten ltamina, diadelphous, or 
united below, in two fets or brotherhoods, an oblong, 
incurved, compreffed germen, and fhort ftyle, fuc- 
ceeded by a long, compreffed, inflexed, or bowed, 
moonated pod, with kidney-fhape feeds, by which the 
plant is propagated, and by layers and cuttings. 
One Species, viz. 
Medicaco eirborea. Tree Medicago, or Shrubby 
Neapolitan Moon Trefoil. 
A moderate, ever-green fhrub, of upright, branchy 
growth, fix or feven feet high, with hoary, young 
branches—the ftem tree-like; leaves {ftnail, hoary) 
trifoliate, whitifh, yellow flowers; and feed-pods lu- 
nated or mooned, with the margin entire.—Native of 
Naples and Rhodes. {Warm, dry fituation.) 
This beautiful ever-green, flowering-fhrub, merits 
particular attention, and may be planted in a warm, 
fheltered part of the fhrubbery, in which it will effeCt 
a fine variety, and ornamental appearance, in its per¬ 
petual verdure, and in its flowers in furnmer; it is alfo 
proper to have fome in pots, to place in fhelter from 
frofl; and is likewife cultivated among the green-houfe 
exotics, to have protection of that apartment ail win¬ 
ter, as being of a tender nature; though will fucceed 
in the full ground all the year, when flationed in warm 
compartments, and occafionally defended with mats, in 
fevere weather. 
It is propagated by feeds, layers, and cuttings. 
Sow the feed in the fpring, either in a bed or border 
of light earth, or in pots, plunged in a hot-bed, to 
facilitate and expedite their vegetation; give occa¬ 
fional watering; and the plants, when of one fummer’s 
growth, planted fingly in fmall pots, and fheltered in 
winter till they acquire fome tolerable ftrength; and 
when two or three feet high, fome may be planted in 
the fhrubbery, &c. others continued in pots, to move 
under protection in winter. 
By layers and cuttings of the young fhoots; perform 
the laying in autumn or fpring, and the cuttings gene¬ 
rally planted in the fpring months, or beginning of 
fummer; they will be rooted in one year, managing 
them as directed for the fcedlings. 
Myrica, CANDLE-BERRY MYRTLE, Gale, 
&c. 
Clafs and Order. 
Dioecia Tetrandria, 
’Two Habitations, Four Males; 
Or Flowers, Male and Female, feparate on two difir.S 
Trees, and the Males have four Stamina. 
THE My rica furnifhes two hardy fpccies of cu¬ 
rious, deciduous, ornamental fhrubs, of aromatic fra¬ 
grance, for adorning principal fhrubberies; plants of 
moderate, upright-lhrubby, and under-fhrubby growth, 
garnifhed with longifh, narrow, fpear-fhape leaves, 
and fmall male ar.d female flowers diltinCt, on two fe¬ 
parate plants, in oblong and oval fcaly amentums; thf 
feales farming cups to fmall florets, without petals; 
having, in the males, four ltamina, and in the females 
an oval germen, fupporting two rtyles, fucccedcd, in 
the female flowers, by bunches of fmall, unilocular, lin- 
gle-feeded berries, of a waxy nature, of which, in one 
fpecies particularly, candles are made in America, the 
place of its native growth; and by die feed of the 
berriec 
