Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
\foft or all the foregoing fpecies of Rhamnus, may 
be obtained at the common nurferies for planting, of 
two or three to four or five feet growth, and may be 
planted in the autumn or fpring or any time from Oc¬ 
tober to March or April, in open weather; (sr all the 
forts may be raifed by the different methods of propa¬ 
gation. 
They are propagated by feed, layers and cuttings; 
by feed, procure the ripe berries, or feed, in autumn 
or fpring, of fiuch forts as ripen in this country, or 
can be obtained; fow them in beds of light earth, 
•achfort feparate, about an inch deep; they will come 
up in the fpring, or fometirnes not all freely till the fe- 
cond year; and when the plants are one or two years 
old, tranfplant them in nurfery-beds, and trained to a 
proper fize for final tranfplanting ; or by layers of the 
young branches in autumn or fpring, flit-layed, or 
cutting a fmall gafh on the under fide, laying that part 
in the earth, raifing the tops above ground, they will 
readily emit roots and be well Tooted far planting off 
in autumn following; and by cuttings of the young 
twigs, in moll of the forts, planted in the above fea- 
fons, will put out roots and grow, though not all fo 
freely as the layers; and generally obferve of the 
AlaternufiTe3, that the Bloached and Striped-leaved 
kinds, and other varieties, mull be propagated prin¬ 
cipally by layers, or occafionally by cuttings, or bud¬ 
ding, &c. as they do not come with certainty the fame 
from feed; and thus, in the above different methods 
of propagation, the young plants being planted in the 
nurfery, train them two or three years, or more, to a 
proper growth for final tranfplanting. 
When the plants are advanced two, three, or four 
feet high, they are of proper fizes for tranfplanting 
finally into the intended plantations of Ihrubberies, 
See. where they are to remain; and in which permit 
them to branch out in full heads, either branchy from 
the bottom, in fome, pruned up below, more or lefs, 
to branch out above; and in all of which, may ad¬ 
vance in full growth, or only prune rampant, run¬ 
away, or other very irregular (hoots and branches, to 
continue the heads in fomewhat regular order. 
RHOBODfNDRON, DWARF ROSE-BAY. 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria, Monogynia, 
Ten Males, One Female y 
Or Plants with Flowers ( Herm.) having ten Stamina, 
or Mali Parts, and one Pifillum, or Female 
THE Rhododendroks confift of feveral fpecies 
Of (mail and middling, deciduous and ever-groeu fine 
ornamental flowering-fhrubs, growing two or three to 
fix or eight feet high, moflly of bufhy growth; gar- 
nilhed with oval and fpear-fhape leaves; and rotate 
or wheel-form, funnel-fhape flowers, in cluiters, and 
fingly, at the ends and fides of the branches; having 
monophyllous or one-leaved cups, cut into five parts, 
a monopetalous, wheel-funnel-fhape, five-par.ted co¬ 
rolla, ten fmall flamina, a five-cornered germen, fup- 
porting a fingle ftyle, crowned by an obtufe ftigma; 
and the germen becomes an oval, quinquelocular cap- 
fule, containing many fmall feeds, by which the plants 
may be raifed, alfo by layers and fuckers. 
1. Rhododendron hirfutum —Hairy-leaved Rho¬ 
dodendron. 
A fmall, deciduous under-fhrub, two£>r three feet 
high—tire leaves [fmall, /hissing) ovate-fpear-fhape, 
hairy-ciliated, naked; and funnel-ftiape pale-red flow¬ 
ers, in bunches, at the ends of the branches; May 
and June.—Native of the Alps, Aulhia, and Stitia, 
(Any dry foil.) 
2. Rhododendron ferrugineum —Ferrugineous, cr 
Iron-coloured -Rhododendron. 
A fmall, deciduous flirub, about three feet high— 
the leaves [fmall) fpear-fhape, fmooth, with the un¬ 
der fide leprofv or feurfy iron-coloured; and funnel- 
(haped, rofe-colourcd flowers, in bunches at the ends 
of the branches, in June.—Native of the Alps and 
Pyrenean mountains. ( Any moderately-dry foil.) 
3. Rhododendron maximum — Greater Laurel- 
leaved Rhododendron. 
A mlddling-fize, mod beautiful ever-green fhrut*, 
fix or eight feet high, of bufhy growth—the leaves 
[moderately-large, light-green) oval obtufe, glofly-fhin- 
ing and veined, with the margins acute reflexed; and 
reddifh flowers in corymbus bunches, the peduncles 
one-flowered.—Native of Virginia. [Any mderately- 
dry foil .) 
.4. Rhododendron por.ticum —Pontic, Laurel-leav¬ 
ed Rhododendron. 
A moderate fize, very beautiful ever-green fhrub, 
five or fix feet high, of bufhy growth—the leaves 
[middling, darker-green) fpear-fhape, fmooth on both 
fides, glofly; and terminal racems of large, purple 
flowers, June, July, See .—Native of the Eall and 
near Gibraltar. [Any comtr.onfoil.) 
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