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THE GARDENER’S V 
Variety. —Maple-leaved Oriental Plane—the leaves 
more (lightly palmated or divided. 
z . Plat an us occidentalism Occidental or Weltern 
American Plane Tree. 
A large deciduous tree, growing fifty or fixty feet 
high—the leaves {large, light-green ) lobated, or moftly 
cut into three principal lobes.—Native of North Ame¬ 
rica. ( Moiji, loamy, or any common foil.) 
3. Pi. at anus hifpar.ica, Spanifh or Middle Plane 
Tree, (fuppofed a Variety of the Occidentals.) 
A large deciduous tree, growing forty or fifty feet 
high—the leaves (very large) lobated, of three or five 
principal lobes.—Native of Spain and America. (Moiji, 
loamy, or any common foil.) 
Thefe are admirable fine trees, of beautiful, (lately 
g-rowth, for ornamental planting, and to introduce in 
forefl-tree plantations; they growing with ftraight, 
lofty ferns, and noble fpreading, branchy heads, 
which, cloathed in fummer with their luxuriant, ele¬ 
gant leaves, of large expanfion, make a delightful ap¬ 
pearance, and form an agreeable fhade; and the flow¬ 
ers produced in fufpended balls, on long, pendulous 
pedicules, effeft a curious Angularity ; ripening plenty 
of feeds in autumn, in moil feafons. 
They are definable trees to plant, both in aflemblage 
in all principal ornamental tree plantations, for adorn¬ 
ing pleafure-grounds, parks, &c. and to form groves 
wholly of their own kind ; ana. have connderable merit 
to arrange with other large trees, in avenues, groves, 
groups, and clumps; and alfo to plant difcinch, in 
clumps and in fingle flandards, difpofed in parks, fields, 
and other capacious ditlrifls, and in rows towards cut- 
ward boundaries, &c. likewife, to drop fingly, and 
in clumps, on fpacious grafs lawns; and are peculiarly 
adapted to plant in particular compartments, to form 
fnade in fummer, where it may be required, which, 
in their fpreading growth, and beautiful, luxuriant fo¬ 
liage, they will eftedt mofi agreeably, as well as appear 
fingularly ornamental; and in all of which orders of 
planting thefe trees, they affurae a peculiar grandeur 
in their general appearance, confpicuoufly dillinguilh- 
ab'e. 
Thefe trees are alfo proper to aflemble in foreft-tree 
plantations, as they grow with ftraight, lofty ferns, 
acquiring fome confiderable bulk; and may be aflo- 
ciated both with other deciduous timber trees, as 
Maples, Beech, Chefnut, See. in forming woods for 
timber, and coppices for under-wood ; and likewife 
planted in groves and thickets, wholly as the Platanus 
EGETABLE SYSTEM 
kind, for the fame occafions; or the whole principally 
to grow for large flandards. 
The trees of the different forts are raifed plentifully 
in ail the principal nurferies, for public fupply, and 
where they may be obtained in proper growth, of* 
five or fix, to eight or ten feet high, or more, for 
planting, in autumn or fpring ; or any time in mild, 
open weather, from Odlober or November, to March ' 
or April. 
They are propagated by feed, and occafiondlly by 
layers and cuttings. 
To raife them from feed, .it is fowed in autumn or- 
fpring, or principally in the laft-mentioned feafon: 
perform the fowing in a bed of light, mellow earth, 
fowed. moderately thick, either at once, on the rough 
furface, and raked in evenly, or the ground previoufiy ■ 
raked lmooth; and then draw fome earth off the top- 
of the bed, an inch deep, into the alley, fow the feed, 
on the bed, fmooth it down into the earth with thes 
back of a fpade, and cover it over with the earth out 
of the alley, regularly, about half an inch to an inch 
in depth; or may be fowed in fmall drills, fix inches 
to a foot afunder; the plants will come up in April or 
May, or early part of fummer : keep them clear from 
weeds all that feafon ; and when they are of one fum- 
mer’s growth, tranfplant them in autumn or fpring, in 
nurfery-beds, in rows, a foot, to fifteen er eighteen 
inches afunder ; and having increafed in fize and 
ftrength, for one or two years, or more, fhould be 
tranfplanted at wider diftances, or in which might be 
planted at once from the feed-bed, in nurfery-rows, 
two feet and a half afunder, in which, train them with 
fingle, clean ftems, prune off lateral fhoots, according 
as the trees advance in height, preferving the tops 
entire; and when three, four, or five, to fix, eight, 
or ten feet, may be finally tranfplanted, as occafion- 
ally required, for the intended plantations. 
By layers and cuttings of the young (hoots, they 
may alfo be propagated, performed in the autumn or 
fpring; for layers, cliufe the young (hoots produced 
from llools, near the ground ; ga(h or cut a fmall up¬ 
ward (lit on the under fide, lay them with that part in 
the earth, they will more freely root, and form proper 
plants by the following autumn ; and cuttings of the 
llrong, clean, young (hoots, principally in the fpring, 
planted on a (hady border, will alfo emit roots and 
grow; and in both of which methods of propagation, 
train the plants as intimated for the feedling trees. 
In the advancing nurfery growth of the young 
trees raifed by the above different methods, continue 
the whole trained with fingle ftems, pruning away la¬ 
teral (hoots therefrom, and permit the top leader, and 
branches of the head, to afpire in height. 
When 
