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seeds will often remain till the spring following before they come up, so the ground must not he 
disturbed till you are convinced that the plants are all come up; for some few may rise the first 
year, and a greater number the second. 
When the plants are come up they should be carefully cleared from weeds, and in very dry 
weather must be now and then refreshed with water, which will greatly promote their growth. The 
winter following, if the weather is very cold, it will be proper to shelter the plants, by covering them 
either with mats or dry straw in hard frosts, but they should be constantly opened in mild weather, 
otherwise they will grow mouldy and decay. 
About the beginning of April, you should prepare a spot of good fresh ground, to transplant 
these out (for the best season to remove them is just before they begin to shoot); then you should 
carefully take up the plants, being careful not to break their roots, and plant them as soon as possi¬ 
ble, because if their roots are dried by the air, it will greatly prejudice them. 
When they have remained in the nursery two or three years, they should be transplanted in the 
spring where they are designed to remain, which may be in the wilderness quarter among other 
flowering trees, observing to place them with trees of the same growth, so as they may not be over¬ 
hung, which is a great prejudice to most plants. 
Genus 11. Cornus. Dogwood. Class IV. Tetrandria. 
Order I. Monogynia. 
Species 1 . Cornelian Cherry . (Cornus Mas cut a.) 
The other species are shrubs, and this in its wild state is a shrub, four or five feel in height; but 
cultivated, it advances into a tree, twenty feet high. Shoots ash-coloured and pubescent. Leaves 
in pairs, ovate-lanceolate, subhirsute. The flowers come out very early in the spring, before the 
leaves. Leaflets of the involucre lanceolate, often reflected, permanent. Peduncles one-flowered, 
somewhat villose, from twelve or fifteen to thirty in an umbel. Corolla yellow, spreading, and at 
length reflected, longer than the stamens. Top of the style bent in and papillose. 
The Cornelian Cherry is very common in plantations of shrubs. If the season be mild, the 
flowers will come out the beginning of February; and though there be no great beauty in them, yet 
they are produced in plenty at a season when few other flowers appear. Formerly it was cultivated 
for the fruit, which was used to make tarts, and a rob was kept in the shops. 
Cornel, says Evelyn, grows with us of good bulk and stature, and is exceedingly commended for 
its durableness in wheel-work, pins and rvedges, in which it lasts like the hardest iron. 
Native of France, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Carniola, Piedmont, the Milanese. 
Cultivated in 1596, by Gerarde.* 
CULTURE. 
All the sorts of Dogwood may be propagated by their seeds, which, .if sown in autumn soon 
after they are ripe, will most of them come up the following spring; but if the seeds are not sown 
in autumn, they will lie a year in the ground before the plants will appear, and when the year proves 
dry, they will sometimes remain two years in the ground; therefore the place should not be disturbed 
* Hort. Kew. 
