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Show hin ails a1 4 Tinus; prior fplendente. folio The fhining-leay’d Laurus Tinus, vulgé, 5. Linus; riegatis. €lufii, antes Clufii, folits prior ex The ftrip’d thining-leay’d ist albo vaLaurus Tinus, 6. Tinus 3° Il. Clufii, foliis ex lutea vaiss The ftrip’d rough-leav’d Laurus Thefe Plants are greatly propagated in the Gardens near London for their Beauty, the Leaves always remaining green, and their Flowers are produced in great Plenty in the Winter Seafon, when few other Shrubs do flower. Thefe Plants were a few Years fince preferved in Pots and Tubs, and placedin the Green-houfe in Winter, with Oranges, Myrtles, and other exotick Trees; but of late Years they have been planted in the open Ground, where they refift the Cold of our ordinary Winters very well, and are rarely injured, except in very fevere Frofts, and then theyare feldomdeftroy’d, though their Heads may be kill’d (as was the Cafe with many of thefe Trees in the Year 1728.) yet thofe which were left undifturb’d, fhot out freth again the following Summer, and have fince made indry Weather to refrefh’em with Water until they have taken Root. There fhould be alfo fome ftrait Stakes fix’d down by the Side of each Plant, to which they fhould be faften’d, in order to render their Stems ftrait, otherwife they will be crooked and unfightly. But it is not pro- per to have thefe Plants more than two Feet high in clear Stems, becaufe when their Heads or five Years, during which time they fhould be carefully clear’d from Weeds, ‘and the Ground dug every Springs in doing of which their Roots fhould be carefully cut round, to caufe ’em to produce more Fibres , whereby fhould have very little Water, whichif given planted in the lower Part of Clumps, and other Plantations of Evergreens, if they are 4 proportionable Diftance to the Breadch of their Leaves, which will be clofe enough to render them beautiful, and at the fame time will encourage their Flowering : For when they are continually clipp’d, their Branches are very weak, and do often decay Middle, andtheir Flowers are never in the fo large, 3 moved into the Stove, and placed with the Melon and Torch-Thiftle, in a warm, dry Situation, and during the Winter Seafon they in Plenty, feldom fails to rot ?em. In the Spring thefe Plants fhould be again placed into a Bark-bed, whichwill greatly promote their Growth, and will caufe *em to produce mix’d with other Plants of the fame Growth; and in thefe Plantations they will not be fo liable to fuffer by Froft, becaufe their Stems will be defendedby the neighbouring Plants, There are fome who make Hedges of thefe Plants, but they are by no means proper for Flowers, which they feldom do when kept dry upon Shelves in the Stove, nor will they make any confiderable Progrefs in fuch a Situation. Thefe Plants are preferved for their odd Appearance amongft other fucculent Plants, whichoccafions their Branches to be produced of a milky acrid Juice. that Purpofe, becaufe their Leaves are large, at a farther Diftance, and thefe when cut do TITHYMALOIDES, [of naizeaQ- and aS@-, Shape.| Battard Spurge. The Charaéfers are ; 5 of one Leaf, and is in hat like a xr; whofe Pointal ds becomes a trice vfular Fruit like that 1. TirHymatoipes ; frute/cens, folio Myris of being deftroy’d in bad Weather: There- be done with’Sheers (as is the common Practice, whereby their Leaves are cut, and render’d very unfightly), but rather skilfully prunedwith a Knife, allowing their Branches rot them. After they have taken Root they may have a greater Share of Air, by raifing the Glaffes, but they muft never be expos’d to the open Air: In this Bed they may remain until the been directed for moft Sorts of Evergreens, that being the Seafon they begin to fhoot. Thefe Shrubs are very ornamental, when themis about the Beginning of April, as hath 2. TITHYMALOIDES ; frutefeens, fo d rit. Plum. Shrubby Baftard Spurge with an fore, when their Stems are two Feet high, bed of Tanners-bark, obferving nowandthen to refrefh them gently with Moifture ; but they fhould never receive much Wet, which will Beginning of Odober, when they muft be re- are advanced above Sight, the Beauty of the their upright Shoots fhould be ftopp’d, in order to force out lateral Branches, which may be fo prun’din the growing Seafon, asto form *em into regular Heads ; but this fhouldnot Lime-rubbifh, andthen plunged into a Hot- they may be removed with greate r Safety, becaufe the Earth will be the better fappor ted by their Roots. The beft time to tranfplant amplifimo. Tourn. The American, fhrubby, laurel-leav’d Spurge, vulgd. Plants are loft, andthey are in greater Danger Se ee ’ appear very unfightly; befides, by the fregood Plants; which fhould caution People quent cutting of them, it prevents their flower from rooting out Plants too foon, when they ing, fo that the greateft Beauty of the Plants may feem to be kill’d by Froft. is loft; for they fhould never be prunedafter Thefe Plants may be propagated by laying the Beginning of May, unlefs fome very luxudown their tender Shoots in the Spring, which riant Shoots are produced, which growgreatly if kept clear from Weeds, and duly water’d out of Order; thefe may be fhorte n’d, or in dry Weather, will take Root by the fuc- entirely difplaced, according as the Plants may ceeding Spring, when they fhould be taken off require; and this one Pruning every Spring and tranfplanted into a mellow, loamy Soil, will be fufficient to keep *em conftantly in (but not too wet) at three Feet diftance Row Order, without injuring their Flowering, which from Row, and eighteen Inches afunder in the fhould alway s be avoided. Rows, obferving to lay fome Mulch upon the Surface of the Ground about their Roots, and Td ——— +: HA nor produc’d in fo7 great Plenty they have a greater Diftance allow as when *d to their Shoots. In this Nurfery the Plants may remai n four ahaa: Oleander Leaf. Thefe Plants are very common inthe wa Parts of America, where the firft is known b the Name of Poifon-weed, under whic! pellation I received it from Barb: Sort is now pretty common in the G thofe who are curious in preferving ¢ their Leaves being very large, thick, and full msi, a Pap or Zeat, Valley, of yaegxso, to make a Trench, on account of its growing in a Valley. Another Sort is called Peplos, which was an Ornament that Women made ufe of, which being fpread out ferved for a Veil. A third Sort is call’d Cataputia, a Medicament that is fwallowed at one Gulp.] Spurge. The Charaéers are ; Flower-cup ; the Pointal, which is for the moft part triangular, rifes from the Bottom of the Hower, and afterwards becomes a Fruit of the J Shape, divided into three feminal Cells, in ich of which is contained one oblong Seed. To Notes fbould be added, It has a milky abounding in every Part of the Plant. The Species are 5 1. Tirnymatus; Jatifolius, cataputia diffus, i. L. Broad-leav’d Spurge, called Cataputia. 2. Tiruymatus ; C. B. P. fill’d with light, fandy Earth, mix 1 characias, amygdaloides. Wood Spurge with Almond-like Leaves. Tiruymatus; characias, amygdaloides, eleganter variegatis.. Flor. Bat. Wood Spurge with beautiful ftrip’d Leaves, 4. Trruymatus; maritimus. C.B.P. Sea P. Part De h f Spurge of Candia, with narrow, hairy, and hoary Leaves. There are a great Number more of Sp of lefs Note, which are feldom culcivate Gardens, fo I hall not enumerate them here, thofe already mention’d being the moft valuable Sorts. The firft is a biennial Plant, which will fatter its Seeds, and the Plants will come up without any Care, which will flower and feed the following Summer, after which the Plants will die; thefe Plants come up muchbetter when the Seeds fall of themfelves, than if fown with great Care, nor will they bear Re. unlefs it be done while they are planting, and thereby the Plant deftroy’d. This is order’d by the College of Phyfici be ufed in Medicine, under the Title of Ca- taputia minor, for which Reafon it is preferv’d in fome Gardens, though there is no great Beautyin the Plant. The fecond Sort is found wild in Woods andother fhady Places in divers Parts of Eng- land, but is worthy of a Place in fall Wildernefs Quarters, orin other fhady Plantations, where it will thrive very well, and in the The Flower conjifts of one Leaf, which is of Spring will produce great Tufts of Flowers, the globous, Bell-/hape, cut into feveral Moon- which although not very beautiful, yet are of foap’d Segments, and encompalid by two little a fingular Figure and Colour, and will addto Leaves, which feem to perform the Office of a the Variety of the Place. Thefe Plants may propagated by Cuttings, Weeks, until the wounded and warexis, foft, q. d. One Sort is call’d Characias, i. e. belonging toa which may be taken from the Plants d over, they fhould be plantedinto fmall Po 11. Tirnymatus ; Creticus, characias, anguftifolins, villofus F incanus. T. Cor. Woody moving, Joft Pap, becaufe this Plant produces Milk. Spurge. They are both ridis pityufa, C. B, P. Pine-leav’d Spurge, called the Leffer Efula of the Shops, 8. Tiraymatus 5 Indicus Srutefcens. Rai Hift. Indian fhrubby Spurge. 9. Trruymatus; Indicus, vimineus, penitus apbyllos. Boerb. Ind. Indian Spurge with flender ftraggling Branches without Leaves. 10. Tirnymatus5 arboreus. Alpin. Tree Spurge with Myrtle Leaves. young becaufe they generally fend forth a TITHYMALUS, [nwuer@-, fo called of Tap-root, which is often broken by tranf- exotick Plants, but the fecond Sort is yet very rare in the Englifh Gardens. oat any of the Summer Months, and after lain in a dry Place for a Fortnig 0 T I 5. Tirnymatus; myrjinites, latifolius. C. B. Broad Myrtle-leav’d Spurge. 6. Tiruymatus ; paluftris, fruti C35; PiexS ubby Marfh Spurge, commonly called Efula of the Shop: ¥MALus; foltis pini, forte Diofco- be taken out of the Woods in dutumx, and tranfplanted into the Places where they are defign’d, in which, if they are once eftablifh’d, they will fow their Seeds, and thereby be continued; but if they are not placed under the Shelter and Shadow of Trees, they will not thrive fo well. The third Sort isa Variety of the fecond; the Leaves of this Kind are beautifully ftrip’d, fo as to appear of three Colours: This may be propagated by Cuttings, which fhould be planted in Pots, filled with light fandy Earth, and placed in the Shade until they have taken Root, after which they maybeplaced amongft other curious Plants, where they may be fcreen’d from the Violence of the Sun in Sum- mer, and in Winter they muft be thelter’d under a Frame from hard Froft, which will deftroy them, but they muft have thefree Air in mild Weather, and not too much Wet in er. The fourth Sort is found wild upon the Sea Coafts in feveral Places in England, from whence it has been tranfplanted into feveral Gardens : This may be propagated by aoe the |
