THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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berries die plants are raifed; and likcwife by fuckers, 
layers, and cuttings. 
The hardy Species of MYRICA are, 
1. Myrica eerifera , Wax-bearing Myrica, or Com¬ 
mon Candle-Berry Myrtle. 
A moderate, deciduous fhrub, growing four or five 
feet high—the ftem tree-like, upright; leaves ( longijh , 
narrow) fpear-lhape, (lightly (awed; and clufters of 
waxy berries.—Native of Virginia, Pennfylvania, Ca¬ 
rolina, &c. [Any common foil, fomewhat Jhtltered.) 
Varieties.— Narrow-leaved Candle-berry Myrtle. 
Broad-leaved Carolina Candle-berry 
Myrtle. 
Ever-green, Carolina Candle-berry 
Myrtle. 
2 . Myrica Gale —(Gale) Sweet Gale, or Dutch 
Myrtle, or Sweet Willow. 
A moderate, deciduous under-fhrub, three cr four 
feet growth—the ftem under-fhrubbv; leaves [Jmailer , 
jhorter) (pear-(hape, (lightly fawed, and dry berries. 
—Native of Europe and North America, in marlhy 
places. (Moift foil.) 
Thefe two fpecies of Myrica deferve admittance in 
principal (hrubberies, as delicate, curious ftirubs, and 
the leaves imparting an agreeable fragrance, more 
particularly the Gale; allot them a front lituation : 
the Myrica cerifera, or Common Candle-berry Myrtle, 
fhould generally have a fomewhat (heltered compart¬ 
ment, and the Gale, or Dutch Myrtle, delights in a 
moift foil; both the fpecies, and the different varieties, 
may be had at the nurferies for planting, which per¬ 
form in autumn or fpring, and may be placed, in aflem- 
blage with other Ihrubs of fimilar growth, in fhrub- 
bery-clumps, in fituations as above. 
They are propagated by fuckers from the root, by 
layers, cuttings, and feed. 
To propagate them by the three former methods, 
the fuckers may be taken up in autumn or fpring, with 
roots, and planted either in a nurfery, or at once 
where they are to remain; and layers and cuttings of 
the young (hoots, in the fame feafon, will be rooted 
by autumn following; and being planted in the nur¬ 
fery, train them a (hort ftem below, and branchy 
above; and when of a foot and a half, to two or three 
feet growth, are proper for the (hrubbery. 
And by feed, fow it in the fpring in a bed or pots of 
Kght moift earth, covered in with earth, half an inch 
to an inch deep; the plants will come up the tame year: 
give occaJional watering, and next fpring, tranfplanc 
them into nurfery-beds ; or fome of the Candle-berry 
Myrtles may be planted in fmall pots, fingly, to place 
under (belter from fevere froft, till they have obtained 
fome tolerable ftrength ; and when the plants of both 
the fpecies are advanced in growth, as before obferved, 
half a yard to two or three feet, they are proper for 
the (hrubbery plantations. 
Nyssa, TUPELO TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Polygamia Dioecia, 
Many Marriages, Two Habitations; 
Or Flowers of federal different Sexes, as Males, Her¬ 
maphrodites, and Females, feparate, on two diftintt 
Plants, or Habitations. 
THIS Genus, Nyssa, furnilhes but one fpecies ; 
a curious, deciduous, aquatic tree, comprifing two or 
three varieties, and of utility principally for ornamen¬ 
tal planting in (hrubberies and other pleafurable plan¬ 
tations; is a tree of moderate or middling growth, 
adorned in fummer with oblong, broad leaves, on long 
foot-ftalks; and flowers of different fexes, as males, 
hermaphrodite, &c. on two feparate trees, without 
petals, growing in clufters, and fingly, in the different 
varieties, fucceeded by oval, drupaceous fruit, con¬ 
taining an ovate, pointed nut, by which the trees are 
propagated, alfo by layers, cuttings, and fuckers. 
One Species, and fome Varieties, viz. 
Nyssa hquatica, Aquatic, or Water'Tupelo Tree. 
A moderate, deciduous tree, of upright growth, 
twenty to thirty feet high—the leaves ( middling, light- 
green) oblong, broad, acuminated, or (harp-pointed, 
indented, and intire, in the different varieties; and 
peduncles many-flowered, and one-flowered_Native 
of North America, in watery, and upland fituations. 
{Moift foils.) 
Varieties. —Indented-leaved, Water Tupelo Tree, 
Intire-leaved, Upland Tupelo Tree. 
Round-leaved Tupelo Tree. 
Multiflorous Tupelo Tree; the pedun¬ 
cles fuftaining many flowers. 
Uniflorous, or One-flowered Tupela 
Tree; the peduncles having but one 
flower on each. 
This curious tree demands admittance i*i ornamental 
plantations of (hrubberies, and other diftri&s, in af- 
femblage principally with other trees and ihrubs of 
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