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M fill the pot almoft to the rim, and obferve to (hake 

 the plant, lb as to let the earth in between the roots ; 

 and dien with your hand fettle it clofe to t!ie roots of 

 the plant, to keep it Heady in the pot ; then water 

 them gently, and fet them abroad in a fliady place, 

 where they may remain for three weeks, giving them 

 gentle waterings, if the weather fhould prove hot 

 and dry. 



Toward the latter end of September^ in a dry day, 

 remove them into thehoufe again, obferving to give 



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young plants, by taking off the glafTcs in good weal 

 ther, and by raifing them at other times with props, 

 that the air may freely enter the bed, v/hich is ab-' 

 folutely neceffary for dveir growth, and to prep.ire 

 them to be removed into the houfe, wJlich mull be 

 -done toward the end of September, and managed as 

 before directed for the old plants.- 

 The African Aloes, for the moff par;, aH ord olenty 

 of fuckers, by which they are i'lcr^irfedt but' thofe 

 few that do not, may be moil of th.em propagatedi 

 by taking off fome of the under leaves, laying them 

 to dry for ten days or a fortnigiit, ' as was diredled for 

 the offsets ; then plant them in the fame foil as was 

 direded for them, putting that part of the leaf which 



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them as much free open air as poffible, while the 

 weather is warm ; but, if the nights, are cool, you 

 muft fhut up the glaffes, and give them air only in 

 the day ; and, as the cold increafes, you muft not 

 open the glaffes, but obferve to give them gentle 

 waterings often, till the middle of O<5tober, when you 

 muft abate watering according to the heat of the houfe 

 in which they are kept. For thofe pjants which are 

 placed in a ftove, will require to be watered at leaft 

 once a week, moft part of the winter ^ whereas thofe 

 which are kept in a green-lioufe without artificial heat, 

 fnould not be watered oftener in winter than once a 

 month. 



When thefe hardier forts of Aloes are placed abroad 



in fummer, they ihould have but little water given 



them; and if much rain fliould fall during the time n ^^^^ ^l xo nviu uic iiiLccntii lorc, tne :5UCcotrine or 



they are abroad, they (hould be fcreened from it: for ! beft^fort of Aloes, is produced; which is done' by 



and a half (according to the fize of the leaf) into the 

 earth, giving therti a little water to fettle the earth ~ 

 about them,; then plunge the pots into a moderate 

 hot-bed, obferving to fcreen them from the violence 

 of the fun, and give them gentle refrelhings with 



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in the Ibops for horfes, and is called Aloe Hepatica* 





when they imbibe much wet in fummer, they fre- 

 quently rot the following winter, efpecially if they are 

 not kept in a moderate warm air. Therefore, thofe 

 who choofe to treat thefe plants hardily, fhould be 

 cautious of their receiving too much moifture. 

 The tender forts Ihould conftantly remam in the ftove, 

 or be removed in fummer to an airy gkfs-cafe, where 

 they may have free air in warm weather, but be pro- 

 tedted from rain and cold. With this management 

 the plants will thrive and increafe, and fuch of them 

 as ufually flower, may be expedted to produce them 

 in beauty at their feafons. 

 The hardier forts thrive much better when they are 

 cxpofed in fummer, and fecured from the cold and 

 rain in winter, than if they are treated more tenderly. 

 For when they are placed in a ftove, they are kept 

 growing all the winter, whereby they are drawn up 

 weak ; and although they will flower oftener when 

 they have a moderate fliare of heat, yet in two or three 

 years, the plants will not appear fo fightly ' as thofe 

 which are more hardily treated. 

 The twenty-third fort is hardy enough to live abroad 

 in mild winters, if they are planted in a warm border 

 and a dry foil ; but as they are often deftroyed in fe- 

 vere winters, it is proper to keep fome plants in 

 pots, which may be flieltered in winter under a frame, 

 to preferve the fort. This is propagated by feeds, 

 which the plants generally produce in plenty: the 

 feeds muft be fown in pots foon after they are ripe, 

 and in winter fliould be flickered under a common 

 hot-bed frame : in thefpringthe plants will come up, 

 when they fliould be inured to bear the open air by 

 degrees -, and when they are large enough to remove, 

 fome of them fliould be plantedTn pots, and the other 

 in a warm border, where they will require to be fliel- 

 tered the following winter, as they will not have ob- 

 tained fuflicient ftrength to refift the cold. 

 Moft of thefe Aloes are increafed by offsets, which 

 fliould be <aken from the mother plant, at the time 

 when they are fliifted, and muft be planted in very 

 fmall pots, filled with the fame earth as was direfted 

 for the old plants ; but if, in taking the fuckers ofl^, 

 you obferve that part which joined to the mother root 

 to be moift, you muft let them lie out of the ground 



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cutting their leaves tranfyerQy, and placing earthen 

 veffels under them to receive the juice which drops 

 from thefe cut leaves i which juice, when infpiffated, 

 becomes the Aloe which is ufed in medicine. But I 

 believe in making the coarfer fort of Aloes, they prefs 

 the leaves, whereby a greater quantity of juice is ob- 



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See 



A L O I D E S. See Stratiotes. 



C U R O S [Gr. 'AKoirkHfii^} 



ofgrafs. 



ALPINIA. 



This plant is fo called after Profper Alpinus, who 

 was a famous botanift in hi§ time, and travelled into 

 Greece and Egypt, and has written two books in 

 quarto of the plants of thofe countries. 



The Characters are, 

 // balh a trifid empalement^ upon which refis the germn. 

 The flower is of one leaf which is unequally divided at the 

 top into four parts^ and refembles a perfonated flower ; 

 ihe upper fegment which refembles the helmet^ and alfo the 

 two fide fegments^ are indented in the middle^ and the lower 

 one is divided into three parts at the brim ; in the center 

 is placed the round germen^ fupporting aftngleftyle crowned 

 with a three cornered ftigma : this is attended by aftngle 

 ft amina fixed to the tube of the flower^ which is crowned 



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4ft er the flower is paft 



in a fliady dry place fix or eight days to dry before 



they are planted, otherwife they are very fubjeft to rot. ^ , „, 



After planting, Jet them remain in a fliady place (as ] gated by parting of the roots when the leaves decay. 



incloftng fever al oval feeds ^ 

 ^ This genus of plants, is by Dr. Linn^us ranged in 

 his firft clafs, which is entitled Monandria Monogy- 



nia, the flowers of which have but one ftamina and 

 one flyle. 



We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 Alpinia. Royen. Prod. 12. This is by father Plumier 

 titled, Alpina racemofa alba'Cannacori foliis. Nov. 

 Gen. 26, i. e. White branching Alpina^ with leaves like 

 the flowering Reed. 



This plant is a native of the Weft-Indies, froi^i whence 

 it has been brought into forrie of the curious gardens 

 of Europe, where it muft be preferved in a good 

 ' green-houfe, and the pots plunged into a tub of water, 

 otherwife it will not thrive in this country. The leaves 

 decay every winter, and are puflied out from the roots 



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was before direfted in fliifting the old plants) for a 

 fortnight, when you fliould remove the tender kinds 

 tQ a very moderate hot-bed, plunging the pots there- 

 in, which will greatly facilitate their taking new root; 

 but obferve to fliade the glaflTes in the middle of the 

 day, and to give them a great fliare of air. 



A L S I N E IGr. 'k\^'m\ Chick-weed. 



Thefe plants are fd well known to moft perfons, it 

 will be needlefs to mention them in this place, unlefs 

 it be to caution perfons from permitting them to grow 

 either in their gardens, or on dunghills, where they 



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