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Show VI 1. VERONICA} Cc. B. P.. May , Common Fluellin. 2. VERONICA 3 /pi 9° Mor. latifol broad-leav’d Greater Hift. upright Speedwell. 4. VERONICA3 ¥i Cold of our Winters very well, provided they are planted in a dry Soil. Thefeareall pretty Varieties, and do fucceed each otherin Flowering, which renders them worthy of a Place in every curious Garden. Thefe fhould:all be planted in the Middle of the Borders in the Pleafure-Garden, (except the fifth and ninth, which feldom growabove a Foot high, and fo are better placed amongft Flowers of the fame Growth) wheres being intermix’d with other caul Pannonica. uwn. ungarian Speedwell, ks or Spikes of Flowers. bearing many Flowers, they afford an agreeable Variety. Syn. They may be propagated by parting of their Roots, which cominonlyincreafe very faft, fo that the raifing ’em from Seeds is fel- VERONICA3 t 17 /ulo io. Raii i Edit. 3. le Welth fpiked Speedwell, with a hairy Buggic dom practis’d. The beit Time for parting and tran{planting the Roots is in September, that onicas; cerulea, Flor. Bat. Blue Speedwell with they may have Time to take frefh Root be- Qu 0 a trifid or quinquefid Leaf. 1 ji 1ndt Virginian Speedwell, wit white Flowers. 8. Veronica; /pi Long-leav’d {pik’d Sy VERONICA ; vir Ever-green Rock Speedwell. here are manyother Species of this Plant, are cultivated in Botanick Gardens for y, fome of which are Natives of Eng- ich » but as they are feldom preferved in Gardens eafure, fo I thought it not worth while to enumerate themin this Place ; thofe here-mentioned being the moft beautiful, and beft fore the * comes on; fix’d in z, efe being Will be much ftronger than Shoots, together with its large Bunches of white Flowers in the Spring, which are fucceeded by red Berries, in Aulumn, it affords an agreeable Variety. This Tree may be propagated either from derate Warmth, but as much frée ble in very mild Weather. During the Winter Seafon thefe Plants muft be frequently refrefh’d with four Hoursbefore it be ufed, that acquired a proportionable. Ws keep them clear from Weeds, and to part ing; from which a Number may foon be pro- un; for if they are their Roots every 4 fuffer’d to remain too long unremov’d, their pagated. The beft Time for laying thefe Branches is of the Houfe, and muft be gis fmall Quantities; for much Wet at that < fon is very injurious to thefe Plz Roots will fpread, and take up too much Room in the Borders, fo as to injure fuch in Autumn, jutt as the Leaves begin tofall, (the Mannerof laying them being the fame as for other hardy ‘Trees, need not be here Botanical Thermometers) is what thefe Pla fucceed beft with; for if the Stove be kept too Plants as grow near them. i VIBURNUM; The Way-faring or Pliant Mealy Tree. 0 the Form of placedon the and isa Plant oflittle Beauty, but asit is the Sort which is ufed in Medicine, under the Title of Paul's Betony, fo 1 thought it not amifs full of Juice, which contains one stony, com to fet it down here. This is generally brought furrow’d Seed, to Market byfuch Perfons who make it their The Species are ; Bufinefs to gather Herbs in the Fields to 1. Vizurnum ; Matth., The commoa jupply the fame, fo that it is not often culti- Viburnum, or Pliant Mealy Tree. vated in Gardens; but thofe who have a 2. Visurnum3; folio variegato. The comMindto propagate it, may do it with much mon Vibernum with ttrip’d Leaves. Eafe; for as the Branches trai] upon the 3. Visurnum 3; Americanum, odoratum, Ground, they pufh out Roots from their urtice foliis latioribus, fpinofum, floribus miJoints, which Branches being cut off and niatis. Par. Bat. Prod. American fweet-{cented planted, will take Root and grow in almoft Viburnum with Broad Nettle Leaves, befet with Thorns and Vermilion Flowers. 4. Vizgurnum ; Americanum, odoratum very ornamental Plants in the large Borders of foliis urtice, floribus miniatis. H. L. American the Flower-Garden, particularly the fourth, fweet-fcented Viburnum with Nettle Leaves any Soil or Situation. The fecond, third, and fourth Sorts are which produces a great Number of Spikes of beautiful blue Flowers. Thefe continue flower- and Vermilion Flowers. 5. Vizurnum; Cifi femine five Salvia ing at Jeaft two Months, andin cool, moift foliis mucronatis, Americanum, odoratum, mi- are Natives of warmer Countries than Engand, but are hardy enough to endure the being thus common, yet it deferves a Place in fmall Wildernefs Quarters, among other flowering Trees, where, by its mealy Leaves and they may be removedinto tl ing them by degrees, to bear into which they fhould be remov placing them where they may be from {trong Winds, in, which Si mayremain until the Midd September; when they Stove, and placed where they may h dom practis’d, efpecially fince young Plants may be taken from the Woods or Hedges, where there are many ofthe old Trees grow- in Woods and ‘The fixth, feventh, eighth, and ninth Sorts But notwithftandingit q tion, but fhould have a middling freth Soil, not too wet, in which they will thrive exceedingly, and require.no farther Care but to other fhady Places, in divers Parts of England, very proper to cut for Bafons or Flowers-pots to adorn Rooms in the Summer-feafon. The fifth Sort is a Native of the Mountains in Wales, from hence it hath been tranfplanted into many curious Gardens. This produces fine large Spikes of blue Flowers, and deferves a Place in every Garden. in very great Plenty. Thefe are all tender Plants Affiftance of a Stove, to maintain this Country. They may be planting their Cuttings, during any of Summer Months, into Pots fill’d with fi light, rich Earth, and plunged into a moc rate Hot-bed, obferving to water them until they have taken Root, Seeds, or by laying down the tender Branches; but the former Method being tedious, is fel- Flowers. Seafons much longer; and thefe Flowers are The firft of thefe Trees is very commonin divers Parts of England, particularly in Kent,where it grows in mott of the Hedges uponthe dry, chalky Hills near Gravefind, Rochefter, 8c. which, by Pere Plumier, is the priated to the Genus. thofe which are yremov’d in the Spring, and will produce a greater Number of Flowers They maybe planted in almoft any Situa- worth cultivating for their The firft Sort grows wild, Leaves like thofe of the Female Ciftus; and ellow Flowers. 8. Virurnum; Americanum, folio urtice, flribus ex aureo &F rofeo miftis. Boerh. In American Viburnum with a Nettle Leaf, and gold and rofe-colour’d Flowers intetmix’d. V¥ nus, floribus incarnatis. Par. Bat. Prod. Leifer American Viburnum, with Leaves like the Female Ciftus, and pale-colour’d Flowers 9. VinuRNuM; Americanum, Salvie fis, floribus albis Par. Bat. Prod. Americat Viburnum, with Blunt Sage Leaves and white Flowers. 7. VIBURNUM3 jeu Salvie foliis Par. Bat. Prod. Leaves temperate Heat (as mark’d on Mr. Fo warm, the Plants are very fubject to fhoot ’em off from the old Plants, and tranfplant them into a Nurfery for two or three Years, at that Seafon are always weak, and flower well, fo that the Str h of the Plant Winter, and the Branches which are prod in which they may be train’d up to regular is greatly exhaufted in nourifhing weak and Stems and Heads, and may afterwards be irregular Shoots: But if the Houfe in which planted where they are to remain. This Tree they are placed be not kept to near that Heat, commonly ,grows about twelve or fourteen the tender Shoots will decay, and manytimes Feet high, but it is rarely feen above fixteen or the Headofthe Plants will be entirely deftroy’d eighteen, fo that it fhould be plantedin Lines by Cold. In Fune, when the Weatheris fettled, thefe with fuch Trees as do not exceed this Growth 5 otherwife it will be hid thereby, and their Plants may be brought out of the Houfe, but they fhould not be expos’d to the open Air Beauty loft. placed near The ftrip’d Sort may be propagated by and Sun, at firft, but rather inarching it upon the plain Sort. ‘This is pre- Hedges or other Trees, whereby they may ferved by fuch as delight in variegated Plants, be fheltered, and by Degrees inured to the but there is no great Beauty in it; but thefe open Air; which, if they are fuddenly exTrees do feldom grow near fo large as thofe pos’d to, will caufe their Leaves to change of the plain Sort, as is the Cafe ofall other brown, and appear unfightly; and the Growth of the Plants will alfo be greatly retarded ftrip’d Plants. Thereis alfo another Sort very like to the thereby. During the Time they are abroad Common, which has been introduced into the they muft be frequently water’d ; for the Sun Englify Gardens lately, which was brought and Air will dry the Earth in the Pots, much from Virginia; but as this Sort has not yet fafter than while they remain’d in the Houfe; flower’d with us, fo I can’t fay how it differs fo that if they are not fupply’d with Moitfture, from ours. This was at firft fomewhat tender, while young, and in the fharp Winter Anno they will not produce their Flowers fo foon, fince endured the Cold of our Winters very well, nag’d, they will continue flowering until December ; and during this Time they will afford as much Pleafure as moft other exotick Plants, nor near fo ftrong, in which the Beauty of 1728. the Plants of this Kind, which were thefe Plants doth confift. The Beginning of Auguft the Flowers wilt plac’d in the open Air, were kill’d down to the Ground; but the Roots of moft of them fhot begin to appear at the Extremity of the Branches, and if the Plants are carefully maup again the fucceeding Spring, and have All the other American Sorts are Natives of American which repeated) ; by the fucceeding Autumn the Layers will be rooted, when you may take the warm Parts of the /eft-Indies, where, by the Englifh Inhabitants, they are promifcu- mucronatis, Water, fhould be placed in the Stoveat leaft t their Flowers growing in clofe Bunches, and are, for the moft part, of a very beautiful oufly called Wild Sage; but by the Natives Colour ; but thefe Plants rarely produce good of thofe Countries, they are called Camara, Seeds in this Country. The |