Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWER?, and FRUITS. 
(middling, deeper - green) quaternate, or placed by 
fours, on very Ihort foot-ftalks; and moil Ample pe¬ 
duncles, with yellow flowers,. May or June.—Native 
of Siberia and Tartary. (dny /oil.) 
4. Robinia fygmaa —Dwarf, Four-leaved Shrubby 
Robinia. 
A fmall, deciduous Ihrub, three or four feet high— 
the leaves {Jmailer ) quaternate, or placed by fours, 
fitting clofe, narrow wedge lhape; and moft Ample 
peduncles, or flower-ftalks, with yellow flowers. May 
or June.—Native of Siberia, (.day foil.) 
Thefe four fpecies of Robinia are deferable furniture 
ttraflift in decorating flirubberies and other plantations 
in pleafure-grounds, as ornamental flowering-trees and 
fhrubs: they appear confpicuoufly beautiful in fummer 
in their elegant long, pinnated, and Angular quaternate' 
leaves, in the different fpecies; and produce their 
flowers in May and June very agreeably; which in 
the Rofe Acacia in particular, is-of fuperior beauty in- 
their fcarlet or rofe colour, and f^r which the fhrubs 
merit a place in the principal fhrubbery clumps or 
fpacious borders, efpecially as they generally begin 
flowering when but of fmall young growth, very orna¬ 
mentally; however, all the others alfo deferve admit¬ 
tance, and will effefl apleaflng variety, in aflemblage 
with other decorative trees and fhrubs, difpofed in a 
diverAAed order. 
All the forts are cultivated for fale in the nurferies, 
and may be obtained of proper growth for planting in 
autumn or fpring. 
They are propagated by feed, fuckers, layers, and 
cuttings; orfome varieties occaflonaily by.grafting. 
The feeds may be fowed in the fpring, any time in 
March or beginning of April, in a bed or borders of 
light earth, the plants will moftly come up the fame 
fpring: keep them clean from weeds till the autumn or 
fpring following, then tranfplanted in the nurfery in 
rows, to encreafe in growth, two or three years, and 
then will he of proper Azes for Anal tranfplanting in¬ 
to the fhrubbery or where they are to remain in the in¬ 
tended plantations. 
By fuckers, layers and cuttings,- the Common Falfe 
Acacia, and fome others, fend up fuckers from the 
roots occaflonaily, which may be taken up in autumn 
or fpring with roots to each, and planted as above; 
and layers and cuttings of young fhoots, in the fpring 
or autumn, will be rooted by autumn following, or of 
the Common Faife Acacias, cuttings of roots in the 
fpring ate fometimes planted in pots, plunged in an 
qpen hot-bed, will put out fhoots above and form 
plants.- 
Or any particular variety, fuch as the Rofe Acacia-, 
&c. may be propagated by grafting it in the fpring up¬ 
on flocks of any of the other kinds. 
When the plants, raifed by the different methods, 
are two or three to four or flve feet growth, according 
to that of the different fpecies, they are of proper 
Azes for the feveral plantations in which they may be 
intended; may be tranfplanted in the autumn or fpring 
or any time in mild weather, from. O&ober to March, 
cr. April; and in performing which difpofe them ac¬ 
cording to their refpeflive Azes they attain in full' 
growth; the larger kinds place towards the back part, 
thofe of lower growth plant more or lefs forward; 
and being thus Anally planted, let them advance in full' 
growth, or only prune cafual, ftrolling, diforderly. 
flioots, to preferve the heads a little regulai. 
Rosa, ROSE TREE. 
Clafs and Order; 
Icofandria,. Polygynia, 
Twenty or more Males, Many Femalcs; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having twenty, 
or more, Stamina, or Males, and numerous Fijlillums, 
or Females. 
THIS Genus comprizes many fpecies, and nume¬ 
rous varieties, of the Rofe tribe, forming.a grand 
colledlion of thofe moft eminent ornamental flowering- 
fhrubs, moftly of the deciduous kind, and one ever¬ 
green ; all of great merit for adorning the pleafure- 
g.round in fhrubberies, flower-borders, &c. in their 
moll beautiful, large, odoriferous flowers, feveral 
months in fummer; are generally of bulhy growth, 
two cr three to Ax or eight feet high; moftly armed, 
more or lefs, with thorny prickles, and garniihed with 
middling and fmall, pinnated or winged leaves, of two 
or three pair of oblong-oval folioles, terminated by- 
an odd lobe; and many large, delightful flowers, of 
flve petals, in the common Angle kinds, but numerous in 
the doubles; conflfting of reds, whites, yellows, &c. 
in vaft variety; having to each flower a monophyllous 
or one-leaved bellied, flelhy, calyx, divided intoflve long- 
narrow fegments above, but globular and flelhy at the 
bafe and permanent; acorollh,of Ave obverfe-heart- 
fliape petals, increaflng numeroufly in the double vari¬ 
eties, in many feries* one within another to the cen¬ 
tre; twenty or more hair-like (lamina, and many 
fmall germina in the bottom of the calyx, fupporting 
numerous flyles; the continuing flelhy bafe of the ca¬ 
lyx becomes a tuibinated-oval flelhy, unilocular red 
berry. Ailed with many oblong, hairy feeds, ripe in 
autumn, and by which the plants may be raifed, for 
new varieties; but moft of the forts propagate abun¬ 
dantly by fuckgrs riflng plentifully from the roots every 
year 
