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tamn following, either into, a nurfery, where they may 
grow a year or two to get ftrength, or into the places 
where rhey are defigned to remain : where people would 
cultivate them for their woo : , it will be the bell way to 
f'ow the feeds upon the fpot where they are intended to 
grow, becaufe thefe trees (end out long, thick, fiefhy, 
roots to a great diftance, which will penetrate gravel or 
rocks; and if thefe roots are cut or broken, it greatly 
retards their growth ; therefore when they are not (own 
upon the intended fpot, they (liould be tranfplanted thi¬ 
ther young, othenvife they will not grow to near the 
(ize ; though where they are only defigned for ornament, 
the removing the plants twice will (top their growth, 
and caufe them to be moYe productive of flowers ; but 
all trees intended for timber, are much better fown on 
the ground where they are defigned to (hand, than if 
they are tranfplanted. If the feeds of thefe trees are 
permitted to fcatter in winter, the plants will rife in 
great plenty the following fpring, fo that ar few trees 
will foon fupply any perfon with a fufticient number of 
the plants. There is a variety with variegated leaves, 
which can only be continued by cuttings or layers : the 
cuttings (liould be planted in autumn, when the leaves 
begin to fall ; and the plants mud have a poor foil, for 
in good ground they are apt to become plain. Tiie la¬ 
burnum will thrive upon many different foils, and in 
fueli fituations as few other trees will make any pro- 
grefs. It will grow in a poor hungry foil, but where 
there is any depth it will make great progrefs. Mr. 
Bontcher recommends the feedling plants to be removed 
to the nurfery in February or March, (liortening their 
roots, which are not injured by cutting them freely when 
young; and planting them two feet and a half diftant 
from row to row, and a foot afunder in the rows, there 
to remain two feufons. Hence they may be removed 
either in October or February, dill reducing the down¬ 
right roots, and fmoothing the extremities of the fpread- 
ing ones; pruning off all ill-placed (ide branches, but 
leaving Come of the (mailed at proper, didances. The 
rows may now be five feet apart; the plants two feet 
afunderand here they may remain three or four years. 
Thefe directions are more adapted to railing trees for or¬ 
namental plantations-than for ufe. If they are defigned 
for poles, they fliould be kept to finaller didances. The 
autumn after they are fowed, they may be pricked out 
three or four inches apart, and the following fpring to 
the didance of nine inches or a foot, there to remain 
three or four years, according to their growth, when 
they may be removed, being fourteen or fixteen feet 
high, to the places where they are defigned to remain, 
only fhortening the lateral roots, and jud topping the 
tap root. Thus they will run up with few lateral 
branches and finall heads, to the height of from twenty 
to forty feet. 
2, 3> 7 > 9 > IJ > I2 > J 3 > 17• Thefe may be propagated 
by feeds, which fliould be fown upon a bed of light 
earth in March, covering them about one third of an 
inch with tine fereened mould ; in the beginning of May 
the plants will appear, when they mud be carefully 
weeded, and during the following f 11 miner they mud con- 
dantly be kept clean, which is all the culture they re¬ 
quire till autumn, wheVi it will be very proper to arch 
the bed over with hoops, that in frody weather the plants 
may be covered with mats, to prevent their tender (hoots 
from being killed ; for as thefe young plants are apt to 
continue growing later in the autumn than thofe which 
are become woody, they are much more fufcep.tible of 
cold ; therefore where there is not lome care taken to 
cover them, if the winter (liould prove levere, many 
of them may be entirely deflroyed, and the others killed 
to' the ground. The fpring following, after the danger 
of hard fro ft is over, the plants fliould be carefully 
taken up, and planted out at the diftance of one foot 
row from row, and (ix inches afunder in the rows ; this 
fliould be in a flickered dtuation, and as thefe plants do 
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not (iioot till late in the/pring, they need not be tranf¬ 
planted before the end of March, or the beginning of 
-April ; and it the feafon fliould then prove warm and 
dry, it will be proper to give the plants Come water to 
fettle the earth to their roots : and if the drought con¬ 
tinue, and the waterings are three timqs repeated at a 
week’s interval from each, it vrill be of fefvice to the 
plants. After they have taken new root, they will re¬ 
quire no farther care, but to keep them condantly clean 
from weeds ; in this nurfery ihe plants may remain two 
years, in which time they will have acquired ftrength 
enough to be tranfplanted where they are to remain. 
4. This, beiog very hardy, will thrive in any dtuation, 
and almoft on any foil that is not too wet. It is propa¬ 
gated by feeds, which may be fown upon a common 
bed of light earth in the fpring ; in autumn the plants 
may be removed into a nurfery in rows, one foot apart, 
and at fix inches diftance in the rows, where they may 
remain two years to acquire ftrength, and (liould then be 
removed to the places where they are defigned to grow. 
5. This plant grows only in hot countries, and cannot 
be preferved in.England, but in the bark-dove. It riles 
eafily from feeds in a hot-bed, and will grow three or 
four feet high the firft year, provided it have a proper 
heat; and the fecond year the plants will produce 
flowers and feeds. They mud be treated in the fame 
manner as other tender plants from the fame countiies ; 
fliould have little water in winter; and in dimmer (liould 
have a large (hare of air admitted to them in warm wea¬ 
ther. The evergreen cytifus may be propagated in the 
fame manner as has been directed for the fecond fort; 
but as it is fometimes killed in levere fro-fls, it (liould be 
planted only on a dry foil, and in a warm dtuation : it is 
alfo very difficult to remove, when grown to any fize, 
becaufe it (hoots long roots deep into the ground, and 
when thefe are broken or cut, the plant fe-ldomfurvives it. 
10, 14, 15, 16, 17. Will not bear the open air of our 
climate, but require the protection of a green-houfe or 
dry dove. See Anthyllis, Aspalathus, Crota- 
laria, Ebekus, Genista, Hedysarum, Indigofe- 
ra, Liparia, Medicago, Ononis, Robinia, and 
Spartium. 
CY'ZICENS, or Cyzice'na, f. among the ancient 
Greeks, were magnificent banqueting-houfes, looking 
towards the north, and ufually opening upon gardens. 
They had their name from Cyzicus, a city very confide- 
rable for the grandeur of its buildings. 
CY'ZICUM, in ancient geography, an ifland of the 
Propontis, about five hundred and thirty ftadia in circum¬ 
ference, with a city called Cyzicus. Alexander joined 
it to the continent by two bridges, and from that time it 
was called a peninfula. It became one of the mod con- 
llderable cities of Alia. It was bedeged by Mithridates, 
and relieved by Lucullus. Florus. 
CY'ZICUS, the chief city of the above-mentioned 
ifland of Cyzicum, built where'the ifland is joined by 
the bridges to the continent. It has two excellent har¬ 
bours called Panormus and C'nytus. The former is na¬ 
turally large and beautiful, and the other owes all its 
conveniences to the hand of art. The town was (ituated 
partly on a mountain, and partly in a plain. The Ar¬ 
gonauts built a temple to Cybele in the neighbourhood. 
It derives its name from Cyzicus, who was killed thefe 
by Jafon. The Athenians defeated, near this place, 
their enemies of Lacedaemon, afiilted by Pharnabazus. 
B. C. 410. Strabo. 
C Y'ZICUS, a fon of CE-neus and Stilba, who reigned 
in Cyzicus. He hofpitably received the Argonauts, in 
their expedition againd Colchis. After their departure 
from the court of Cyzicus, they were driven back in the 
night, by a dorm, upon the coaft ; and the inhabitant 
feeing inch an unexpected number of men, furioufiy 
attacked them, fuppofing them to be the Pelafgi, their 
enemies. In this noCturnal engagement, many were-kil¬ 
led on both ddeY, and Cyzicus •perilheu by the hand cf 
7 B jafon 
