Op TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
moftly ternate or three-lobed, and fome pinnated ; the 
lobes ovate-roundilh.—Native of Sicily. {Dry, warm 
Jit nation.) 
4. Pistacia narbonenfe, Narbonne Turpentine Tree. 
A moderate deciduous tree, twenty feet high or 
more—the leaves {large, light-green) pinnated and 
trifoliate, of three and five lobes, fub-orbiculate round- 
ifh; and large, round fruit.—Native of Montpelier, 
Perfia, Mefopotamia, and Armenia. {Warm, dryjitu- , 
at ion.) 
5. Pistacia Lentifcus-*- (Lentifcus vulgaris) Com¬ 
mon Lentifcus, or Mallick Tree. 
A middling ever-green tree, growing twenty feet 
high or more—the leaves {large) abrupt pinnated; the 
lobes fpear-lhape, in three or four pairs, not termi¬ 
nated by an end foliole.—Native of Spain, Portugal, 
Italy, and P alas dine. {Dry, warm Jituation.) 
All thefe fpecies of Pijlacia are admitted in collec¬ 
tions of curious trees and fhrubs, for variety and or¬ 
nament; but being natives of warm climates, are 
mollly of a tender nature, and are generally retained 
as green-houfe plants, in this country; though they 
are alfo fometimes planted in the full ground, in prin¬ 
cipal fhrubberies, in warm, dry foil, and fheltered fix¬ 
ations, full to the fun in winter, and defended from 
cutting blafts in that feafon; or planted againft a fouth 
wall, and have occafional covering of mats in fevere 
weather: the different fpecies may be had at mod of 
the principal nurferies, generally in pots, to tranfplant 
with balls of earth, which fhould be performed in 
fpring, when fettled, warm, weather, in March or 
April, in fixations as above ; or may be raifed by 
feed and layers, to a proper fize for planting. 
Thefe trees are modly deciduous when planted in 
the full ground ; but when defended in a green-houfe, 
they often retain their leaves in winter; they flower in 
fummer, but are feldom fucceeded by ripe nuts in this 
country; thefe, however, arc obtained plentifully from 
abroad, proper for fowing, Sec. — 
They are propagated by the feed or nuts, fowed in 
the fpring, and by layers of the young fhoots. 
The feed or nuts for fowing, may be procured at 
mod of the principal feed (hops and nurferies, in the 
fpring : fow them in March or April, fome in pots, 
an inch deep, and placed in a hot-bed to forward the 
germination of the feed, and the young plants in 
growth ; and fome may be foWed in a bed of natural 
*arth, in a warm fixation; and the young plants in 
autumn, trarifplanted fingly in fmall pots : keep the 
whole in pots for two or three years, in order for plac¬ 
ing under ihelter of a frame, &c. in winter, when 
frody weather; or if fome are continued in the full 
ground, give occafional protection as above; and when 
increafed in drength, of two or three feet height, 
they may be tranfplanted into the full ground, in the 
fpring, turning them out of the pots with balls of 
earth to the roots, or removed from the full ground in 
the fame manner, and planted in warm, dry fixations-, 
before-mentioned. 
But it is alfo proper, generally to keep fome con- 
dantly in pots, to move under fheiter in winter, in pre- 
fervation, in cafe thefe in the full ground are killed by 
rigorous frods. 
Plat anus, PLANE TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia, Polyandria, 
One Habitation, Many Males ; 
Or Flowers Male and Female , dijlinft, or feparate on. 
one or the J'ame Tree ; and the Male Flowers having 
many Stamina. 
THE Platan us comprife noble, deciduous trees* 
of draight and lofty dature, for ornamental and foreft- 
tree plantations, rifing with an upright dem, to a con- 
fiderable height and fubdance, and large, branchy, 
fpreading heads; adorned, in fummer, with mod am¬ 
ple, palmated, lobated foliage, divided into three and 
five lobes, expanding fix or eight, to twelve inches 
broad, or more, meafured from the extremity of the 
fide lobes; and fmall male and female flowers, feparate 
on the fame tree; the males collected into globular 
amentums, of many fmall florets, with fcarcely vifible 
petals, containing numerous fmall damina; and female 
flowers of many fmall petals, collected into large, 
roundifh balls, fufpended in long, pendulous firings or 
pedicules, and furnifhed with feveral germehs and 
ftyles, fucceeded by numerous pappous feeds, growing 
in round, hard, rough balls, ripening in autumn; and 
by which, fowed in autumn or fpring, the trees are 
propagated, alfo by layers and cuttings of the young 
wood in the fame feafons. 
The Species of PL AT ANUS are, 
1. Platanus orientalis. Oriental or Eaftern Plane 
Tree. 
A lofty-growing deciduous tree, attaining fixty or 
feventy feet high—the leaves (mojl large, dark green) 
palmated, divided into five principal lobes.—Native 
of Afia, Taurus, Macedonia, Creta, &c. (Loamy, 
tnoijl, or any common foil.) 
Variety. 
