Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 129 
the deciduous tribe; and delights in moift fituations, or 
will groiv in any common foil: is railed in mo ft of the 
nurferies, for fale, where it may be obtained in the 
different varieties, for planting in autumn or fpring, or 
,-tny time in open weather, from ORober or November, 
till March or beginning of April. 
• The trees are propagated by feed, layers, cuttings, 
and fuckers. 
The feed, for lowing, is commonly obtained from 
America, by the feedfmen, in the fpring, and in which 
feafom it may be fowed in a fhady, oread border; and 
when the plants are a,year-old, tranfplant them in a 
nurfery; train each with’a Angle flem, pruning up the 
lateral fhoots by degrees, the top permitted to advance 
in full growth, and when grown three or four, to five, 
fix, or eight feet high, are of proper fize for final 
tranfplanting in- the refpettive diftrids in which they 
may be required, for ornament and variety. 
By layers and cuttings of the young wood, or fhoots, 
of one .year’s growth, ldyed and planted in the autumn 
or fpring, will be rooted- by the following autumn; and 
then managed as advifed for the feedling-plants. 
Or fuckers fometimes rife from the roots of the trees 
that are of advanced growth, and may be dug up in 
autumn or fpring, and planted. 
Ole a OLIVE TREE, of the 
Clafs and Order 
Diandria Monogynia, 
Males, One Female, 
X)r Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having two 
Stamina, or Males, and one Pijlillum, or Female. 
THE Ol e a, or Olive, comprife curious ever-greens, 
of moderate tree or fhrub-like growth, for adorning 
the pleafare-ground, but being natives of warm coun¬ 
tries, require a fbeltered fituation; are upright grow¬ 
ers, ten to fifteen, or twenty feet; very branchy, al- 
moft to the bottom, with full heads, decorated with 
fmall, or moderate fpcar-fhape, and oval ftiffleaves, op- 
polite, in pairs, continuing in verdure at all feafons; 
and fmall, funnel-fhape, white flowers, at the axillas, in 
clufters; having fmall, monophyllous, or one-leaved, 
tubulous, quadridented cups, a monopetalous, funnel- 
fhape corolla, four-parted, and fpreading above ; two 
fiamina in each flower, a roundifh germen with a fingle 
flyle, and the germens become oval, green, eatable 
ruit, called Olives; good for pickling, though feldom 
produced in plenty and perfedlon in this country for 
ufe, nor furnifh ripe feed thereof for fowing; but the 
trees propagate freely by layers. 
One Species, furnifhing feveral Varieties, viz. 
Ole a eurcptca, European Common Olive Tree. 
A fmall, or moderate, ever-green tree, of fhrub- 
like growth, ten to fifteen, or twenty feet high—the 
leaves (fmall') fpear-fhape, ftiff, oppofite; and duffers of 
fmall, white flowers, fucceeded by oval fruit.—Native 
of the foutherft parts of Europe. {Warm, dry fituation, 
and fame kept in pots, to place under Jhelter in winter.) 
Varieties. —Round-branched, Common Olive Tree. 
Tetragonated, or four-angled branched. 
Common Olive Tree. 
NarroW-leaved, Common Olive Tree. 
Broad-leaved, Spanifh, Common Olive 
Tree, with larger oval fruit. 
Short, hard-leaved. Wild, Common 
Olive Tree. 
Box-leaved, Common Olive Tree. 
Shining-leaved, African, Common 
Olive Tree. 
. This fpecies, and different varieties, of Olive Tree, 
being exotics from the fouthern, warm parts of Eu¬ 
rope, &c. require a defended, warm fituation, in this 
country, where they may have fome protection in win¬ 
ter from fevere froll, and fome kept in pots, tp place 
under fhelter of a frame, or green-houfe, in the winter 
feafon; though, on account of their tender nature, 
liable to fuffer in rigorous weather, they are likewife 
generally introduced in the green-houfe colledion, to 
have protedion of that confervatory all winter; how¬ 
ever, they will alfo fucceed tolerably well in the full 
ground, planted againft a fouth wall, a plant or two 
of each, for variety; and when rigorous frofts, cover 
them with large garden mats, and litter the ground 
with ftraw, over the roots. 
They are propagated principally by layers of the 
young branches, in the fpring or autumn; will be rooted 
in one fummer; then cut from the parent tree, and 
plant fome under a warm wall, others fingly in pots, 
to place under fhelter in winter, till they gain llrength ; 
and fome may then be tranfplanted, with balls, into the 
full ground, in a warm fituation, as above intimated. 
Ononis, REST-HARROW, of the 
Clafs and Order 
Diadelphia Decandria, 
7 wo Brotherhoods, Ten Males’, 
Or Plants with Flowers (Herm.) having two Sets of 
united Stamina, or Males, and with ten Stamina in 
each Flower. 
THE Ononis furnifhes two or three fpecies of 
ftnall, very ornamental flowering-fhrubs, of low, un- 
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