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as poflible; and do not prune any of. tl^e lateral 
branches, except occafionalj low ftragglcrs,, pr on)y, 
however, the under growths, near tjie ground; for 
thefe refinous ever-greens do not, admit of any con- 
fiderable application of the knife > befides, thefe 
trees having their branches proceeding from near the 
bottoms, in their peculiar, natural order, adds ex¬ 
ceedingly both to their beauty and profperity of 
growth. A - i 
The young trees having advanced in their np.rfery 
growth, as above, from about one, two, or three, to lour, 
five, or fix feet in height, as has been akeady hinted, 
may be tranfplanted finally, as required, in the places 
where they are to remain, either wholly, to fopm> or 
to aflift in forming, the different or particular plantar 
tions in which they are defigned; for generally in 
mod of thefe kind of trees, when having their final 
tranfplantation while in young growth, they, fooner, 
and more effectually take good root and grow profpe- 
roufly. 
In removing or tranfplanting thefe trees, have 
them dug up with their full roots, as intire as pofli¬ 
ble, preferving their extreme fibres as much as can 
be, and ftill continue the top-fhoot intire, as alfo the 
general branches; or may only prune off very low, 
under ltragglers, and plant them at the proper dis¬ 
tances in the intended plantations; which, where for 
ornament, may be from ten, to fifteen or twenty feet, 
or more; and where defigned for foreft or. timber- 
trees, they are planted five or fix, to teii or fifteen 
feet afunder, agreeable to the foregoing intima¬ 
tions. ■ .0 r,: 
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As to future culture, after planting, thofe planted 
young, in plates where weeds or grafs (hoot up in 
rank growth, in fummer, fhould have thefe kept un¬ 
der till the trees are grown feveral feet in height, 
out of the reach of being over-topped therewith ; 
they will afterwards, in their fpreading branches, 
keep down and prevent all injury from weedss &c. or 
where they are planted in the fhrubbery. order, or in 
any continued or extending plantation, either diftinCt, 
or affembled with other trees and fnrubs, in compart¬ 
ments, in which the ground between them is annually 
dug, in winter or fpring; it is proper, where their 
fpreading branches do not cover the furface, to hoe 
down the weeds in fummer; and in the different 
plantations, &c. the trees in general, of thefe forts, 
ffiould, in their advancing growth, be permitted to 
run up in their top-fhoot, and. to branch out fully in 
their natural manner; or only, as they increafe in 
height, may prune up low, under branches, by de¬ 
grees. 
In thefe, in timber plantations, where ciofe planted 
at firft, they, when advanced twenty fee: high, or 
iGETABLE SYSTEM 
more, of five or fix inches to a foot thick in the ftefn, 
may havefome cut or felled in a gradual, thinning or¬ 
der, for poles and other occafions, leaving a regular 
fupply of the fined trees, at moderate diflances, to ac¬ 
quire large growth for timber. 
As the Cedar of Lebanon, while young, is apt to 
grow bending at top, it fhould be trained to a ftraight 
flake, in an upright growth. 
Fivtacia, PISTACHIA-NUT, or TVsp z nt i n* 
Tree. 
Clafs and Order. 
Dioecia Pentandria, 
Two Habitations, Five Males ; 
Or Flowers Merle and Female, difinct on two feparaie 
■Trees; and the Males having five Stamina. 
T HE. Fifacia furnifhes three or four hardy fpecies 
of deciduous and ever-green ornamental trees, of mo¬ 
derate growth, garnifhed, in fummer, with pinnated 
and trifoliate leaves; and fmall, apetalous, greenifh 
flowers, in amentums and clufters, male and female, 
difiinCt on two feparate trees; the males collected into* 
loofe, fcaly amentums, without petals, having five fta- 
mina, crowned by large, four-cornered anthera; and fe¬ 
males alfo without petals, growing in clufters, and fur- 
rfifhed with trifid cups; an oval germen, fupporting 
three ftyies; and the germen grows an oval, berry- 
like, drupaceous fruit, in clufters, containing a fmooth, 
oval nut, with an eatable kernel; and by the nuts, 
fowed in the fpring, the trees are propagated, like- 
wife by layers of the young wood. 
The hardy PISTACIAS are, 
i. PiS"T ACi a 'vera, True Piftachia Tree. 
A fmall ,or moderate deciduous tree, growing eigh¬ 
teen or twenty feet high—the leaves (large) compleat 
pinnated,.with fub-ovate, recurved folioles, in two, 
three, or four pairs, terminated by an odd or end lobe, 
-—Native of Perfia, Arabia, Syria, and India. [Dry, 
warm ft nation.) 
2. Pistacia Tevebinthus^— (Terebinthn’s vulgaris) or 
Common Turpentine Tree. 
A moderate deciduous tree, growing twenty feet 
high or more—the leaves [large, dark-green ) com¬ 
pleat pinnated, ■ with ovate fpear-fhape folioles, in 
three or four pairs, terminated by an end lobe.—Na¬ 
tive of the fouthern parts of Europe, northern parte 
of Africa, and of India. [Warm, dry filiation.) 
3. Pistacia trifolia, Trifoliate or Three-leaved 
Piftachia Tree. 
A moderate deciduous tree, growing eighteen or 
twenty feet high—the leaves [ttrlddlhg, dark-green) 
moftly 
