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e. Rhododendron DaurianDwarf Rofe- 
Bay. 
A final!, deciduous under-lhrub, two or three feet 
high—the leaves {/mail) oval, fmooth and naked on 
both Tides; and larger, wheel-lhape, rofe-coloured 
flowers, in June.—Native of Dauria. [Moderately- 
dry Jotly) 
S . Rhododendron Chamaclflus —(Chamaeciftus); 
or Dwarf-Ciftus of Mount Baldi. 
A fmall, deciduous Ihrub, two or three feet high— 
the leaves {/mall, pining) ovate-lpear-lhape, ciliatid 
hairy edged, and rotated or wheel-fhape, purple Bow¬ 
ers.—Native of Mount Baldi. ( Moderately-dry foil.), 
Of the foregoing fix fpecies of Rhododendron, the 
firft four forts are the mol generally known in the 
nurferies and garden plantations, and of which the 
two latter are greatly, elteemed both as mol beautiful 
ever-greens, and fine elegant flowering-lhrubs; tho’ 
all the forts are very ornamental in their flowering; 
proper to plantfor variety and ornament, in the prin¬ 
cipal and mol confpicuous fhrubbery-compartments, 
difpofed maftly towards the front, in afiemblage with 
other curious fhrubs of fimilar growth ; and in which 
they will make an agreeable variety, beautiful in their 
flowers in fummer, and the ever-green kinds particu¬ 
larly will both appear ornamental in the continuing 
leaves all the year, and alfo Angularly delightful in 
their feafon of flowering. 
They fhould have a moderately-dry foil, and fome- 
what fheltered Atuation. 
Mol of the fpecies are cultivated in the public, nur¬ 
feries, where they may be obtained for planting, ef- 
pecially the firft four forts, before remarked; and may 
fometimes be had in pots, in particular the ever-green 
kinds, to tranfplant with the ball of earth about the 
roots. 
They may be planted in autumn or fpring. 
All-the forts are propagated by feed, and occafics- 
ally by layers, and fometimes b.y fuckers: foiv the 
feed in the fpring, in a bed, or pots of light earth; 
:make the furface fmooth, fow the feeds thereon, and 
cover them in with fine mold, a quarter or near half an 
inch deep; or pots with the feeds may be placed in a 
gentle, open hot-bed, to forward their germination, 
and juft to hring up the plants fooner in a free growth, 
then placed in an eaft border all fummer, and fhelter¬ 
ed in winter, and in fpring tranfplanted; giving them 
EGETABLE SYSTEM 
protection for a year or two in winter, from froft, till 
they attain a little ftrength; likewife by layers of the 
young fhoots both of the deciduous and ever-green 
kinds, in autumn or fpring, or may try cuttings in the 
fpring in pots, aflifted by a bark-bed or other hot-bed; 
or where any fuckers occur, plant them off in the fpring 
or autumn. 
When the plants raifed as above are advanced one 
or two feet high, they may be tranfplanted in the fpring 
into the Ihrubbery, &c. where they are to remain. 
R h us,SUM AC H, and Toxicodendron. 
Glafs and Order. 
Pentandria, Trigynia, 
Five Males, Three Females', c. 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having fivf 
Stamina, or Males, and three. Fiji ill urns, or Female 
Parts. 
THIS Genus furniftves ftveral’fpecies of hardy* 
deciduous, moderate tree and Ihrub kinds, moftly 
upright, and fome of trailing growth; all principally 
to plant.for variety and ornament in Ihrubberies, Sec. 
growing three, four or five to ten, fifteen or twenty 
feet, in the different fpecies; fome garnifhed with long 
pinnated leaves, of many pairs of folioles, all termi¬ 
nated by an odd one, others with fimple leaves, and 
fome trifoliate, or compofed of three lobes; and nu¬ 
merous finall, pentapetalous, purple and other colour¬ 
ed flowers, at the termination and Tides of the branch¬ 
es, in Angular paniculated fpikes, and fome in clus¬ 
ters; haring finall, five-lobed, permanent calyxes, 
five fmall, oval petals, containing five Ihort ftaminal 
a roundilh germen, very Ihort ftyle, or rather three 
fmall ftigmas; and the germens grow fmall berries, 
furnilhed with roundilh feeds, not generally ripening 
in this country, in all the fpecies; and by which, ob¬ 
tained and fowed in the fpring, the plants are raifed, 
alfo fome by layers, cuttings, and fuckers. 
Sumach Kinds.. 
i. Rhus Coriaria —(Coriaria) or Tanner’s Sumach. 
. A fmall, deciduous tree, eight or ten feet high, of 
irregular branchy growth—the leaves {large) pin¬ 
nated, of feven or eight pair of oval-fpear-flupe 
lobes,. ohtufely-fawed, and the. under-fide hairy; and 
clofe fpikes of wnitilh-ydlow,flowers, in loofe pani¬ 
cles, at the end of the branches.—Native of Turky, 
Paleftine, Sec. where the branches and bark- are ufed 
for tanning of leather. {Any common foil.) 
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