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thousand soldiers, which even covered the sea, exhausted rivers, and chapthrust mount Athos from the continent, to admire the pulchritude andprocerity of one of them ; and became so fond of it, that, spoiling bothhimself, his concubines, and great persons of all their jewels, he coveredit w r ith gold, gems, necklaces, scarfs and bracelets, and infinite riches:
In sum, was so enamoured of it, that for some days neither the concern-ment of his grand expedition, nor interest of honour, nor the necefsarymotion of his portentous army, could persuade him from it : He styledit his Mistrefs, his Minion, his Goddefs; and when he was forced to part
leaves and flowers come out at the fame time with the former, and the seeds ripen in
autumn. .
The PLAT ANUS is of the clafs and order Monoccia Volyandrla.
The flowers come out late in the spring, and are so small as scarcely to be visible tothe naked eye. The buds of the leaves of the oriental sort, begin to swell about thefourteenth of April, and the leaves are generally out by the latter end of the samemonth. '
Besides the two species already described, there are two varieties: 1. The Spanish Plane-tree; 2. The Maple-leaved Plane-tree.
1. The Spanish Plane-tree has larger leaves than either of the other sorts; they aremore divided than those of the Occidental, but not so much as the Eastern. Some of theleaves are cut into five and others into three lobes; these are sharply indented on theedges and are of a light green; the foot-stalks are short, and covered with a short down.This is by some called the Middle Plane-tree, from its leaves being shaped between thoseof the two other sorts. It grows rather, faster-than either of the other kinds.
2. The Maple-leaved Plane-tree differs,from the. two genuine species, in having itsleaves not so deeply cut as the Eastern, nor lobed as the Western kind. The foot-stalksof the leaves are much longer than those of the above sorts, and the upper surface of theleaves is rougher.
The' Oriental and Spanish Plane-trees are propagated from seeds, when they canbe procured. The.ground proper for the seminary should, be moist and shady, well dug,and raked till the mould is fine ; then, in the autumn, soon after the seeds are ripe, letthem be scattered over this ground, and the seeds raked in, in the same manner as turnip-seed. In the spring many of the young plants will come up,! though you must not expectthe general crop till the second year ; the succeeding spring they may be taken out of theseminary, and planted in the nursery in rows one yard asunder, and at one foot and a halfdistance in the rows. Here they may remain with the usual care of digging betweenthe rows and keeping them clean, till they are of sufficient size to.plant out for good.
Where the seeds of these trees cannot be procured, layering, must be the method ofpropagation. For this purpose a sufficient number must be planted out for stools on a spotof earth double dug: After they have stood one year, they should be cut down, in order .