Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, BLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
Both thefe fpecies, &c. may be procured at the 
nurferies, of proper growth for planting, which per¬ 
form principally in autumn or fpring; or are eafily 
raifed to an eligible ftze, by the following methods of 
propagation. 
They are propagated by layers, and cuttings or 
flips of the young fhoots: layers of the young branch¬ 
es, in autumn or fpring, wiii be well rooted by the 
autumn following, when, or in fpring, cut them from 
the parent plant, and planted in nurfery-rows, to ac¬ 
quire proper growth for the fhrubbery; and cuttings 
or Hips of the young fhoots, in the fpring and fum- 
mer, planted in a fhady border, and watered in dry 
weather, they will root freely the fame year, and 
fhootat top: the plants raifed by the different me¬ 
thods, may either be pruned up below, forming a fhort, 
iingle Hem, to grow branchy above, or permitted to 
advance wholly in a bufhy growth; and when half a 
yard, to two or three feet high, or more, they are of 
proper fize for the fhrubbery plantations. 
Pinus, PINE TREE, and FIR, Cedar Tree,. 
and LARCH, &c. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Monadelphia, 
Fzvo Habitations , One Brotherhood ; 
Or Flowers Male and Female, feparate on one or the 
fame Tree; and the Stamina of the Males united in 
one Set, or Brotherhood. 
THE Pinus comprifes many fpecies and varieties 
of confiderahle ever-green trees, and one deciduous 
kind; all of remarkable value for timber and orna¬ 
mental plantations, being trees, of the firft order, fwift 
and flupendous growers, advancing with a ftraight, 
Angle, erett llern, thirty or forty, to fixty, eighty, 
or an hundred feet high, branching, in circular rays, 
regularly from the bottom, upward; the branches, di- 
minifhing gradually zo the top, form beautiful, conical, 
or pyramidal heads; clofcly gamifhedwith very narrow,, 
fetofe or bridle, and awl-fhapc leaves, fome by two, 
three, and five together, others fingly, and fome in 
bundles, or many together from one point, pencil 
form; and fmall male and female flowers, feparate on 
the fame tree; the males in fcaly racems, or fpikes,. 
and females colle&ed in oval cones, of many rigid, 
fcaly calyxes; no petals; many united ftamina in the 
ma’.'d jrets, in the females, a fmall germen, and An¬ 
gle ibyle; and becomes a hard, fcaly, imbricated, co¬ 
nical fced-veffel, or cone,, from one inch, to three, 
four, five, to ten or twelve inches long, involving 
many fmall, nut-like, winged feeds, one generally 
under each fcale; ripening in winter and fpring, and 
by which, fowed in the laft-mentioned feafon, the 
trees are propagated. 
Many Species of the PINUS. 
Comprifing the Pine Trees, Firs, Cedars, and 
Larch; the former is diftinguilhed by the leaves grow¬ 
ing two, three, and five together, in the different fpe¬ 
cies; the Firs have all the leaves placed Angly; and 
the Cedar kinds, confiding of the Cedar of Lebanus, 
and Larch Trees, have the leaves in bunches, or ma¬ 
ny produced from the fame point, fpreading out above; 
and in all the forts, the leaves fmall, narrow, briftle, 
and awfl-fhape, two or three, to five or fix inches long, 
in the different Tpecies and varieties. 
Pine Kinds (PINEA.) 
Diftinguifhed by having the leaves placed by pairs,, 
threes, and fives, together from the fame fheath, 
moftly of a dark and greyifh-green hue; and the trees 
produce feed-cones, from one or two, to eight or ten. 
inches long, or more. 
With leaves in pairs , or two together . 
f. Pinus fylvejiris. Wild Pine, Pinafter, or Scotch 
Pine, commonly called Scotch Fir. 
A large, ever-green tree, growing fifty to fixty feet 
high, or more - the leaves (fmall, dark-greyijh green) 
growing by pairs; the primordial or firft leaves, fingly 
and fmooth; and acute cones, one or two, to feveral 
inches long, in different varieties.—Native of the 
northern parts of Europe, &c. (Dry or any common 
foil.) 
Varieties.—(Pinajler latifolius) Broad-leaved Pinaf¬ 
ter—the leaves broader, longer; and 
long, acute cones. 
(Pinajler tenuifolius) Slender-leaved Pi¬ 
nafter—the leaves fmaller and fhort- 
er; purple flower racems, and fmall 
cones. ( 
(Pinajler maritima altera) Talleft Sea 
Pinafter—leaves broader, longer; and 
longilh cones. 
(Pinajler pumila) Dwarf Pinafter—the 
leaves fhorter, fmaller. 
(Pinus virginiana) Virginia, Two* 
leaved Prickly-coned Pine, growing 
fixty or feventy feet high—the leaves 
fmall, lighter-green; and fmall coi.es. 
—Native of Virginia, Sec. (Moijlor 
any common joil.) 
( Pinus 
