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THE GARDENER’S V; 
Two Species, viz. 
i. Prinos verticil'atus, Verticillated, or Whirled 
Winter-Berry. 
A deciduous fhrub, growing feven or eight feet 
high—the leaves (large, dark-green) oblong-fpear- 
ihape, longitudinally fawed.— Native of Virginia. 
(Mcijl, or any common foil.) 
2 . Pr i xos glaber, Smooth, or Ever-green Winter- 
Berry, Yappon, or South-Sea Tea Shrub. 
An ever-green Ihrub, growing fix or feven feet high 
—the leaves (middling fixe) fpear-fhape, alternate, 
fawed at top, and ever-green.—Native of Canada, in 
North America. (Dry, light, or any common foil.) 
Thcfe two curious fhrubs deferve admittance in all 
principal colleftions in Ihrubberies, &c. to encreafe 
the variety, as well as for ornament and obfervation; 
allotting them a confpicuous fituation: they may be 
had at the nurferies, for planting, in autumn, or 
fpring. 
They are propagated by feed and layers, and fome- 
times by cuttings: fow the feed in the fpring, in a bed 
or border of mellow earth, or in pots, plunged in a 
-hot-bed, juft to forward its germination, and to bring 
up the plants the fame year; which transplant in au¬ 
tumn, or fpring, in a fneltered compartment, or in 
pots, fmgly; give fhelter the firft winter or two, from 
fevere froft; and when advanced two or three feet in 
growth, may be planted in the fhrubbery. 
Or may try layers and cuttings of the young fhoots; 
or cuttings, planted in pots, may be placed in a hot¬ 
bed, in the fpring. 
Pr units, PLUM TREE, comprifmg alfo the 
Cherry and Apricot, Laurel, Sc c. 
Clafs and Order. 
Icofandria Monogynia, 
Twenty, or more, Males, One Female', 
Or Plants with Flowers (Herm.) having twenty, or 
more, Stamina, or Male Frudlif cations, and one PiJ- 
ttllum, or Female. 
THE Prunus comprifes feveral fpecies, and nu¬ 
merous varieties, of valuable fruit-trees, and others; 
comprehending, agreeable to the botanic fyftem, the 
Plumb Tree, Cherry, Apricot, and Laurel Tree, all 
fpecies of the fame Genus, or family, which alfo com- 
prife feveral other fpecies; all of the hardy tree and 
Ihrub kinds, moftly deciduous, and fome ever-green; 
GETABLE SYSTEM 
furnifhing, together, a large and valuable colle&ion, 
both for the fruit garden, orchard, fhrubbery, and or¬ 
namental and foreft-tree plantations, confifting of ma¬ 
ny fpecies, all of upright growth, from eight or ten, 
to twenty or thirty feet high; garniflied with fpear- 
fhape, oblong, and ovate leaves, in the different fpe¬ 
cies, and hermaphrodite, pentapetalous flowers; in 
April and May, See. fome fingly, and in pairs, others 
in clufters, at the fides and ends pf the branches; 
having in each flower a monophyllous, or one-leaved 
calyx, five parted; arofaceous corolla, of five round- 
ifh petals, inclofing twenty, or more, ftamina; a 
roundifn germen, fupporting a Angle ftyle; and the 
germen grows a roundifh and ovate foft fruit, of the 
drupe kind, various in fize and colour, in the different 
fpecies and varieties, inclofing a roundifh, comprefled 
nut; and by which latter any of the trees are raifed; 
or feveral principal forts are generally propagated by 
grafting, inoculation, and by layers. 
The Species of PRUNUS are, 
Confifting of the Plum Kinds, Cherry, Bird-Cherry, 
Apricot, and Laurels. 
Plum Kinds. 
i. P r. u n u s domejlica, Domeftic, or Common Plum 
Tree. 
A moderate, deciduous tree, growing fifteen to 
twenty feet high, or more—the leaves (middling) 
fpear-fhape, ovat**, convolute; and peduncles, or flow- 
er-ftalks, fub-fcliiary, or moftly fingle; fucceeded by 
roundifh and oblong fruit, of many different fizes and 
colours in the different varieties; ripening from July 
till Odtober.—Native of the fouttier. parts of Europe. 
(Any common foil.) 
Varieties of the Trees.— Striped-leaved Plum Tree. 
Gold-bloacbed-leaved Plum Tree. 
Double bloffomed Plum Tree. 
Damfon Tree. 
Double-bloflom Damfon Tree. 
Of the Fruit, conf.fmg of many Varieties, the principal 
efeemed Sorts of which are — 
Primordian, or early White Hative Plum 
—a fmall, oblongifh-oval, whitifh- 
yellow fruit; ripe the middle or end 
°f 7 u b\ 
Azure Hative—a fmall, round, blueifh 
Plum; the end of July. 
Morocco, or Early Black Damafk Plum 
—a middling-nze, round, black fruit, 
furrowed along the middle ; the mid¬ 
dle or end of July. 
Little 
