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BEsides the great variety of Colours and de∣lightful Scent that the Roses have for the greatest part of the Summer yielded you, yet there are several other sweet and pleasant Ob∣jects Nature hath furnished you withal; if you will lend your assistance to convey them into your Garden, of whom none are more gratefully odoriferous than the Jassmins.
Nor knows he well to make his Garden shine, With all delights, who fragrant Jassemine, Neglects to cherish.—Rapinus.
The most common is the Yellow Jassmine, but the White far exceeds it in Beauty, and yielding one of the most Odoriferous Flowers in Nature, as the perfumes made thereof Wit∣ness. In the Autumual Season, these last fur∣nish you with many Blossoms for a long time, until the Frost prevent them; both these re∣quire the help of a Wall or Pallisade, their Branches being but slender and weak, yet en∣during the most severe Colds.
The Indian Jassemine, or the Mexican Tlilxochitle is a Plant requires a tall Wall to a∣spire against: At every Joynt it hath small Claws or Tendrils, insinuating into Brick, Wood, or any other penetrable substance, and requires but small assistance to prune it, it af∣fords a beautiful Scarlet Blossom in America, being one of the Ingredients to the famous Drink Chocolate.
The two former Jassemines are great En∣creasers, and all of them may be increased by Layers.
Nor inferiour to the best of the former, is the Persian Jassemine, for that it is a beautiful Shrub, yielding in the prime of the Summer most pleasant and well scented Blossoms, which welcome you to the choicest Flowers, Trees will yield. As the Persian Nuts and Iris, so the
Persian Jassemins precede in Blossom, all others in respect of time, and therefore are the more valued; they are easily increased by Layers
Not much unlike in Blossom to the last, is the blew Syringa Pipe-Tree, or Lilac, the white is more rare, being but of humble growth, the Bark of a whitish Colour, the Leaves of a very pleasant pale Green, affording you Bran∣ches of fine scented white Flowers in April and May, and is a Tree yielding Suckers plentifully, but the best is that of a purple Colour, which two last very well merit Room in your choicest Avenues.
This is another Tree, that beareth the name of Syringa or Lilac, which never riseth so high as either of the other, but beareth many Clu∣sters of Flowers, of a faint white or wild Primrose colour, yielding a strong Sweet, al∣most like unto that of Orange Flowers.
The double blossomed Pomegranate Tree, is esteemed the rarest of all flowring Trees, yielding so pleasant a Branch, and a much more lustrious Blossom.
Pomgranates next their Glory vindicate, Their Boughs in Gardens pleasing Charms create. Nothing their flaming Purple can exceed. From the green Leaf the golden Flowers proceed.
This Tree deserves the choicest place in your Garden, and under the warmest Wall, being tender whilst young, but after very hardy; the Flowers are double, fair and beautiful,
exceeding all others, born by Trees: they are easily propagated by Layers.
This delicate Plant deserves a little of your Care and Assistance, in separating from it the many Suckers that usually proceed from it, and keep it to a few or but one Branch, and sometimes enrich the Ground with well con∣sumed Hog's dung; For it is the plenty of Nou∣rishment makes them apt to Blossom, and too many Branches or Suckers rob them of it; You need not House them, but if you doubt your Wall stands too open to the cold Winds, which only can hurt them, it is but taking a Mat, or placing a Skreen before them in the Win∣ter, to defend them from it.
The Dwarf Almond is a very humble Shrub, bearing in April many fine Peach-coloured Blossoms, and is a very pleasant Plant, and yeilds plenty of Cions; it deserves a place in your Garden, and needs not to be Housed, it enduring all Weathers; In some Years it bears Almonds of a very bitter tast.
The Mezerion, from whence soever tran∣sported, is one of the most hardy Plants in Nature, sending forth its pleasant, beautiful, and odoriferous Flowers in the coldest Seasons of this Northen Climate, usually in January, and continues in Blossom in February and March, after them Leaves, and then its Co∣ralline Berries, by whom it is increased. The Shrub is of a very soft consistence, and al∣though Cold will not kill it, yet is it very ten∣der in the choice of its Ground; I suppose a
light Ground, or a very moist, are not proper for it, Heat being more offensive to it than Cold.
There are three sorts of them, the one of a Peach colour, another more red being not so common, the other and the most rare is the white
There are two sorts of Sena-Trees, the great Bastard-Sena, and the Scorpion-Sena, both of them yielding a pleasant Leaf, and fine yel∣low blossom, not unbecoming a good Florists Garden; they are slender and require the help of a Wall, endure all Weathers, are tonsile, and therefore reducible into any order, and are increased by Seeds, Layers or Suckers.
The Shrub Spirea is a small Tree, bearing small Peach-coloured Blossoms about the Month of August, it's a hardy Tree, and is in∣creased by Layers.
The Judas-Tree yields a fine purplish bright red Blossom in the Spring, and is increased by Suckers and Layers.
The Bean-Trefoyl, so termed from the like∣ness of its Leaves to the Herb Trefoyl, and its Pods to Beans, it affords many fine yellow Blossoms, and is a very pleasant though com∣mon Tree; it is increased by Seeds, Cuttings, and Layers, and requires some artificial helps to support its weak Branches; there are three kinds of these, the smallest is called Cytisus se∣cundus Clusii.
Not much unlike to the yellow Jessemine is the Spanish-Broom, only its Flowers are like our ordinary Broom, as are the Cods, only lar∣ger: It flowers in May, and is increased by Seeds and Suckers.
The double Virgins-Bower is a climbing Tree, fit to cover some place of Repose, or to be supported by Props for that purpose; it bears many dark blew double Flowers in July, August, and until the Cold prevents them: You may cut off most of the smallest branches in the Winter, it shoots early, and spreads ve∣ry much in a Summer; it is easily increased by Layers.
There are of them single, both purple and red, but this is to be preferred.
The Honey-Suckle, especially either of the more generous kinds of it, is a Plant which though vulgar, yet deserves our Pains in pro∣pagating it. The double and the red are the most choice, and are easily propagated by Layers.
Periploca is a Plant that twists it self about a Pole as doth the Hop; it lives over the Winter, and yearly puts forth small blew Blossoms, is increased by Layers, and entertained in Gar∣dens only for variety sake, and not for its beau∣ty.
Of the Shrub-Mallow, there are two sorts, the Purple and the White; they endure the Winter, are usually planted Standards, bring forth their Flowers in August and September, until the Wet or Cold prevent them; the Tree is increased by Layers. The Blossoms resemble the Blossoms of a Mallow, whence it hath its Name, and is a fair Autumnal Ornament to your Garden, for it buds and blows very late in the Year.
Hypericum-Frutex is a Shrub yielding abun∣dance of small slender shoots, which in May, are very thick set with small white Blossoms, that the Tree seems to be all hoary with Frost, or covered with Snow: It is increased by Suckers, and endures all Weathers, and very well becomes the choicest Gardens.
There is a sort of Peach-Tree, yielding dou∣ble Flowers fair and beautiful, deserves a place under your Wall.
The like there is of Cherries, a sort that bears a fair white Blossom very double, but yielding no Fruit, as doth that of the Peach, yet a wel∣come Plant to a good Florist.
There are Apple-Trees and Pear-Trees, that yield double Flowers, but they are not so much regarded.
Thus by propagating and preserving such Flower-bearing-Trees and Shrubs, may you have your Garden and Groves replete, with great variety of curious Flowers from the end of January, when the hardy Mezerion exposes its several coloured sweet scented Blossoms to your view, until the cruel Frosts and Winds check the Monthly Rose, Althea Fruticosa, Vir∣gins-Bower, and white Jessemine; and so throughout the whole Summer between those two extreams, and that without the trouble of removing, altering, shading, skreening from Cold or other inconveniences, which most other Flowers are subject unto, and are there∣fore much rather to be preferred; yet if you are willing to undergo the little trouble of de∣fending
the Monthly Roses or White Jasse∣mines, you may have Blossoms from these later, and Roses even until Christmas.
1. Yellow Jassemine. 2. White Jassemine.
1. Indian Jassemine.
4. The Per∣sian Jasse∣mine.
5. The Li∣lack.
6. Syringa.
7. Balaus∣tium.
8. Dwarf Almonds.
9. Meze∣rion.
10. The Se∣na-Tree.
11. Spirea Frutex.
12. Arbor Judae.
13. Labur∣num.
14 Spanish Broom.
15. Virgins Bower.
16. Wood∣binds.
17. Peri∣ploca.
18. Althea Fruticosa.
19. Hyperi∣cum. Frutex.
20. Double flower'd Peach Tree.
21. Double flower'd Cherry.