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in warm dry weather. The fifth fort \yill not tlirjve 



in pots, fo Ihould be planted in a rich light io:l, 

 where, if it is allowed room, and plentifully watered 

 in dry weather, the plants will grow to a very large 

 fize, and' make a fine appearance. 

 The twelfth fort is alfo tender, fo whoever is inclina- 

 able to cultivate that plant, fliould treat it in the 

 fame manner as is direded for the former. 

 The other forts arc hardy enough to grow in the open 

 air, lb may be fown en a bed of light earth in the 

 fpring, and when the plants are fit to remove, they 

 may be tranfplantcd into any part of the garden, 

 where they will thrive, and produce plenty of feeds, 

 which, if permitted to fcatter, will (lock the garden 



with plants. 



I'he two firft forts mufl be fown on a good hot-bed 

 in February, or the beginning of March at fartheft ; 

 and in about a fortnight's time, if the bed is in good 

 temper, the plants will rife ; foon after which you 

 muft prepare another hot-bed, covered with good, 

 rich, lio-ht eafth, about four inches thick ; then raife 

 up the young plants with your finger, fo as not to 

 break off the tender Toots, and prick them Into your 

 new liot-bed about four inches diftance every way, 

 crivins them a o;entle watering; to fettle the earth to 

 their roots \ but in doing this, be very cautious not 

 to bear the young plants down to the ground by hafty 

 watering, which rarely rife again, or at leaft fo as to 

 recover their former ftrength in a long time, but very 

 often rot in the ftems, and die quite away. 

 In the middle of the day' keep them fcreened with 

 mats from the heat of the fun, and give them air by 

 raifing up the glalTes \ and if the glaffes are wet, it 

 will be proper to turn them every day, in good wea- 

 ther, that they may dry ; for the moifture which is 

 occafioned by the fermentation of the dung, and the 

 perfpiration of the plants, is of a noxious quality, and 

 very unkindly to plants •, fo that if the weather hap- 

 pens to prove bad, that you cannot turn your glaffes, 

 it will be of great fervice to the plants to wipe off all 

 moifture two or three times a day with a woollen cloth 

 to prevent its dropping upon the plants. When the 

 plants are firmly rooted, and begin to grow, you muft 

 obfcrve to give them air every day, more or lefs, as 

 the weather is cold or hot, to prevent their drawing 

 up too faft, which greatly weakens their ftems. • 

 In about three weeks or a month's time, thefe plants 

 will have grown fo as to meet, and will ftand in need 

 of another hot-bed, which fhould be of a moderate 

 temper, and covered with the fame rich earth about 

 fix inches thick, in which they fhould be removed, 

 obfcrving to take them up with as much earth about 

 their roots as pofTible, and plant them fix or feven 

 inches diftance every way, giving them fome water to 

 fettle the earth about their roots ; but be very careful 

 hot to Water them heavily, fo as to bear down the 

 ' plants, as was before direfted ; and keep them 

 ihaded in the heat of the day, until they have taken 

 frefli roots \ and be fure to refrefh them often gently 

 wdth water, and give thern air in proportion to the 

 heat of the weather, coverino; the glaffes with mats 

 every night, left the cold chill your beds, and ftop 

 the growth of the plants. 

 The middle of May you muft provide another hot- 



bed, which fhould be covered with a deep frame, 

 that the plants may have room to grow.- Upon this 

 hot-bed you muft fet as many three-penny pots as can 

 ftand within the compafs of the frame ; thefe pots 

 muft be filled with good rich earth, and the cavities 

 betv/een each pot filled up with any common earth, 

 to prevent the heat of t-he bed from evaporating, and 

 filling the frame with noxious fteams ; when the bed 

 is in good order to receive the plants, they fliould be 

 carefully taken up with a trowel, or fome fuch in- 

 ftrument, obferving to preferve as much earth to 

 thtir roots as polTihle j then place each fingle plant 

 in the middle of one of the pots, filling the pot" up 

 with the earth before defcribed, and fettle it clofe to 

 the root of th.e plant with your hands -, water them 

 gently, as before, and Ihadethem in the heat of the 



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clay from the violence of the fun, Dy covering the 



o-laires with mats. 



In about three weeks more thefe plants will have 

 grown to a confiderable fize and llrength, fo that you 

 muft now raife the glafies very much in the day-time ; 

 and when die air is foft, .;nd the fun is clouded, drav/ 

 off the gla/fc3, and cxpofe them to the open air ; and 

 repeat this as often as the v/eather will permit, which 

 will harden them by degrees to be removed abroad 

 into the places where they are to rem.ain the whole 

 feafon ■' but it is not advifeable to fet thefe plants in 

 the open air till after the firft week in July, obferv- 

 ing to do it when the air is perfectly foft, and, if 

 ■pofllble, in a gentle fhowerof rain. 

 Let them at firft be fet in fhelter for two or three 

 days, where they may be fcreened from the violence 

 of the fun, and ftrong winds, to which they muft be 

 inured by degrees. Thefe plants, when grown to a 

 ' good ftature, perfpire very freely, and muft" be every 

 day refrelhed with water, if the weather proves hot 

 and dry ; otlierwlfe they will ftint, and never pro- 

 duce fo large leaves, as thofe which are fl^iilfully 



treated. . 



This is the proper management, in order to have 

 fine Amaranths, which, if rightly followed, and the 

 kinds are good, in a favourable feafon, will produce 

 large fine leaves, and are the greateft ornament to a 

 good garden for upwards of two months in the latter ^ 

 part of fummer. 



Where perfons are curious in having thefe annual 

 plants in great perfedion, tliere fhould be a glafs- 

 cafe erefted with upright and Hoping glaffes on every 

 fide, with a pit in the bottom for tan, in which the 

 pots riiduld be plunged ; if this is raifed eight or nine 

 feet to the ridge,^ and the upright glafies are five 

 , feet, there will be room and height enough to raife 

 thefe and other annual plants to great perfeftion, and 

 in fuch a building, many of thofe tender annual 

 plants, which rarely perfedt feeds in this climate with- 

 out fuch contrivance, may be every year brought fo 

 forward as to ripen their feeds. - - 



AMARANTHUS CRISTATUS, See Celosia. 



AMARYLLIS, Lily Daffodil. 



The Characters are, * 



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It hath an oblong compreffed fpatha^ {or JJoeath) which 

 indofes the flozver-hnds^ and open fide ways^ becomes drjy 

 and is permanent ; jhe flower hath fiy: fpear-flofiped pe- 

 tals. In the center isfituated the roimdijh furrowed gcr- 

 meny fupportinga flender flyle^ crowned with a three-cor- 

 nered ftigma ; this is attended by fix awl-foapcd ftamina^ 

 which are crowned with incumbent fummits. After the 

 flower is paft^ the germen becomes an oval capfule^ opening 

 in three parts^ having three cells^ which contain round 

 feeds. 

 This genus is ranged by Dr. Linnaeus in the firft fec- 



/ tion of his fixth clafs of plants, entitled Hexandria 

 Monogynia, from the flower having fix ftamina and 

 one ftyle. . . 



The Species are, 



T. t^-MARYLLTs {Lutca) fpatha uniflora, corolla ^quali, 

 ftaminibus declinatis, Lin. Sp. 420. Lily Dafl^odil 

 with a fingle flower in each fpatha^ which is equaly and 

 the ftamina decli?ied, Lilio NarcifTus luteus autumna- 



, ' lis major. Tourn. Inft. 386. Commonly called autmn- 

 7ml Narciffus. 



2. Amaryllis {Atamafeo) fpatha uniflora, corolla ^qua- 

 li, piftillo declinato. Hort. Cliff. 135. Lily Daffo- 

 dil zvith a fitngle flozver in each floeath^ which has equal 

 petals^ and the point al declining, Lilio NarcifTus Indi- 

 cus pumilus monanthos albus. Mor. Hifl. 2. 266. 

 Commonly called Atamufco Lily. 



3. Amaryllis {Formofiflima) fpatha uniflora, corolla in- 

 fequali, petalis tribus genitalibufque declinatis. Hort. 

 Cliff. 135. Lily DaffQdil with one flower in each co- 

 ver^ 'which has tinequal petals^ and the ftamina andftyk 

 are declined, Lilio NarcifTus Jacobreus fiore fangui- 

 neo nutante. Hort. Elth. 195. Commordy called Ja- 



' cob^a Lily. '• ■ - - 



4. Amaryllis {Sarnienfits) fpadia multiflora, corollis re- 

 volutis genitalibus,- Hort. Upfal. 75. Lily Dafjvdil 



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