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'this, if you find your bed very warm, you miv3: give 

 air in the day-time by niifing the glafies ; but if the 

 bed is coo!, you mull: cover it well with mats c^^ery 

 niglit, as alfo in bad v/eather. In four or iivc days 

 ter, you muft prepare another hot-bed tp receive 

 lefe plants, v/hich will be fit to tranfplant in ten 

 davs, or a fortnight at moft, after the feeds are fown ; 

 this bed need not be very large, for a few ot thefe 

 plants v/ill fill a large quantity of frames, v/hen they 

 are planted out for good, and while the plants are 

 young, there may be a great quantity kept in one 

 lio-ht -, fo tliat thofe perfons who raife early Cucum- 

 bers and Mufk Melons, may aifo raife thefe plants in 

 the fame bed ; for two or three lights will be fufficient 

 to raife plants of all three kinds, to fupply the largeft 

 families, until they are planted out for good; ^ In 

 the management or thefe plants while young, there 

 is little difference from the direftions given for raifing 

 Mufk Melons, therefore I need not repeat it here. 

 The chief thing to beobferved, is, to let them have 

 a large ftiare of air whenever the weather will permit, 

 othervvife the plants will draw up weak, and be good 

 for little. As thefe plants will require two or three 

 hot-beds to bring the fruit to perfeftion, it will be 

 the better way to put the plants into bafkets, when 

 they have gotten four leaves, as is direfted for raifing 

 early Cucumbers ^ but you fhould not plant more 

 than two plants in each baflcet, for if one of them 

 lives it will be fufficient; therefore when' both the 

 plants fucceed, you fliould draw outthe'weakefl and 

 moll unpromifing of them, before they begin to put 

 out their fide flioots, otherwife they will entangle and 

 render it difficult to be performed, without greatly 

 injuring the remaining plant. 



The baflcets in which thefe plants are to be planted, 

 need not be more than a foot diameter; fo that one 

 light will contain eight of them, which will be fuffi- 



N N 



cient for twenty-four lights, when they are planted 



out tor good ; for where the plants are vigorous, one 



fingle plant v/ill fpread fo far as to fill three lights ; 



and if tliey liave not room, they feldom fet their fruit 

 well. 



Thefe baflcets may remain in the nurfery-beds until 

 the plants have fpread, and put out many runners ; 

 for wiien the heat of this bed declines, it is foon re- 

 vived by adding a proper lining of warm dung to 

 tlie fides of the bed quite round ; fo that when they 

 are taken out of this bed, and placed in the ridges 

 where they are to remain, the heat of the beds will 

 lait fo long as to fet their fruit, which is of great con- 

 fequencc •, for v/hen the plants are ridged out very 

 young, the beds are generally made of great thick- 

 nefs in dung, in order to continue their heat; fo 

 that for fome time after they are made, they are 

 fo extreme hot, as to endanger the fcalding of the 

 plants ; and by the time the fruit begins to appear, 

 there is little heat left in the beds, which often occa- 

 fions the fruit to drop off, and come to nothing. 

 After thefe plants are placed in the beds where they 

 arc to remain, you muft carefully lead the flioots as 

 they are produced, fo as to fill each part of the frame, 

 but not to croud each other ; and be careful to keep 

 them clear from weeds, as alfo to admit frefh air 

 whenever the weather will permit ; they muft alfo be 

 frequently watered, but do not give it them in great 

 quantities. In Ihort, there is little difference to be 

 obferved in the management of thefe, from that of 

 Muik Melons, but only to give them more room, 

 and to keep the beds to a good temperature of heat, 

 and wlien the fruit appears, to admit air freely to the 

 plants, in order to fet their fruit -, but when the nights 

 are cold, the glafles muft be covered with mats to 

 keep the beds warm, without which this fruit will 

 feldom come to good in this country. 



A N I i.. See Indigophera, 



A N I S U M, or A N I S E. See Pimpinklla. 



AKNONA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 613. Guanabanus. 

 IMiim. Nov. Gen. 10. Tie Cup/rd Apple, ^c. 



The Characters are, 

 Jl:c empalcmevt is compofed of three fmall heart-jJoapcd 





leaves, ivhich are concave and pointed. Ilje flower 

 hath f.x petals, three large and three altmiatek 

 fmaller. The Jiamina is fcarce difcernihle, hut there are 



fi 



on each J ids the germen, vohlch is fu 

 )f the fiGzver, having no Jlyle, hut i 



fyuit, having a fc 



ifter 



'I frtooth feeds 



Ti)is genus of plants is ranged in the feventh feftion 

 of Linnieus's thirteenth clafs, entitled Polyandria Po- 

 lyginia, the fiowers of this divifion having many fta- 

 mina and feveral germen. 

 The Species are, 



1. Ani^o}^ A {Reticulata) foliis lanceolatis frudibus m^a- 

 tis reticulato-areolatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 537. Anncna 

 with fpear-fhaped leaves, and oval fruit which are netted^ 

 cr wrought in fquares. Guanabanus fruftu aureo & 

 moUiter aculeato. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. "The C 

 Apple. 



2, Annona {Muricatis) foliis ovali-lanceolatis glabris 

 ' nitidis planis pomis muricatis. Hort. Cliff. 222. An- 



' nona with plain, fnooth, finning, oval, fpear-ffoapcd 

 leaves, and a prickly fruit. Guanabiinus frudu e vi- 

 ridi lutefcente molliter aculeato. Plum. Nov. Gen. 



'^^ 



-■ 43. The Sour Sop. 



3 



of 



fubfquamatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 537. Anncna with oh- 



•if fcaly f 



Guanabanus foliis 



odoratis ffuftu fubrotundo fquamofo. Plum. Nov. 

 Gen. 43. The Sweet Sop. 



4. Annon'a {Paluftris) foliis obloi 

 fruftu rotundo, cortice glabro. Annona with' oblongs 



■ blunt, fmooth leaves, and round fruit, with a fmooth 

 'Jldn.^- Guanabanus paluftris frudu Isevi viridi. Plum. 

 ' Nov. The Water Apple, 



5. Annona (Cherimola) foliis latiffn-nis glabris, fru£lu 

 ■- 'oblongo fquamato, feminibus nitidiffimis. Annona with 



firming feeds 



fmooth leaves, oblong fcaly fi 



6. Annona {Africana) foliis ovato-lanceolatispubefcen- 

 tibus fruftu glabro fubcasruleo. Annona with oval, 

 fpear-froaped, downy leaves, a7td fmooth hluifo fruit. Gua- 

 nabanus fru6tu fubca^rulco. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. 

 The Sweet Apple. ^ ^ ' 



7. Annona {Afmtica) fofiis lanceolatis glabris nitidis fe- 

 cundum nervosfulcatis. Hort. Cliff. 222. Annonawith 

 neat fpear-fljaped leaves, with nervous furrows. Guana- 

 banus frudu purpureo. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. • The 



^Purple Apple. / • . 



8. Annona (Triloba) foliis lanceolatis fruflibus trifidis. 



Lin. Sp. Plant, ^^j. 



ifidf 



nth fpear-f 



arietis referente. Cateft). Car. 2. 85. The North Ame- 

 rican Annona, called by the inhabitants Pafaw. 

 The firft fort ufually grows to the height of twenty- 

 five feet, or upwards, in the Weft-Indies, and is well 

 furniflaed with branches on every fide ; tlie bark is 

 fmooth, and of an Afti colour ; the leaves areoblono;, 

 of a light green colour, and have feveral deep tranT- 

 verfe ribs or veins, ending in acute points ; the fruit 

 is of a conical form, as large as a tennis-ball, of an 

 Orange colour v/hen ripe, having a foft, fweet, yel- 

 lowilh pulp, of tlie confiftence of a cuftard, from 

 whence the title of Cuftard Apple was given to it. 

 The fecond fort is not fo large as the firft, rarely rifing 

 above twenty feet high, and not fo well furnifhed 

 with branches ; the leaves are broader tlian thofe, have 

 . a fmooth furfice without any furrows, and are of a 

 iliining green colour \ the fruit is large, of an oval 

 fhape, irregular, and pointed at the top, being of a 

 greenifh yellow colour, and full of fmall knobs on 

 the outfide •, the pulp is foft, white, and of a four and 

 fweet tafte intermixed, having many oblong dark-co- 

 loured feeds. 



The third fort is a tree of humbler growth, feldom 

 rifing more than fifteen feet high, and is well furniihcd 

 with branches on every fide •, the leaves of this foj t 

 have an agreeable fcent when rubbed \ the fruit is 

 roundifti and fcaly, and w^hen ripe turns of a purple 

 colour, and hath a fweet pulp, 



O The 



