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Fifthly, When your flowers begin to open, you 

 (hould remove their pots upon a ftage (built with 

 rows of flielves, one above another, and covered on 

 tJie top, to preferve them from wet : this fhould be 

 open to the morning fun, but flickered from the heat 

 of the fun in the middle of the day :) in this pofition 

 they will appear to much greater advantage, than 

 when the pots fl:and upon the ground ; for, their flow- 

 ers being low, their beauty is hid from us i whereas, 

 when they are advanced upon fhelves, we fee them in 

 a full view. In this fituation they may remain until 

 the beauty of their flowers is pafl:, when they mufl: 

 be fet abroad to receive the rains, and have open free 

 air, in order to obtain feeds, which will fail if they 

 are kept too long under flielter. When your feed is 

 ripe, obferve to gather it when it is perfeftly dry, and 

 expofe it to the lun in a window upon papers, to pre- 

 vent its growing mouldy, and let it remain in the 



pods till the feafon for fowing it. 



AURICULA URSI MYCONI. See Ver- 



BASCUM. 



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A X I S of a plant. Axis is properly that round fmooth 

 . cylinder, about which a wheel is turned ; whence, by 



way of mxtaphor, that long, round, fmooth part, 



: placed in the center of the iuli, or cat tails, on Nut- 



^ trees, &c. about which the male organs are difpofed, 



may be called the Axis. The French call it Ame, 



Noyau, or Poinfon. 



AZALEA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 195. American up- 

 right Honeyfuckle. 



The Characters are, 

 // hath a [mail colour ei empalement "which is permanent^ 

 cut into five' acute ^parts at the top. ^he flower is 

 fumel-Jhapedy having a long naked tube ^ cut into five parts -, 



: the two upper fegments are refiexed backward^ the two 



: Jtdes are bent inward^ and the lower one turns downward. 

 : It hath five flender ftamtna of unequal lengths ^ which 



-^ have oblong ere5f fummits.. The round germen fupports a 

 long flender ftylcy crowned with an obtufe ftigma \ the ger- 



, me7i afterward becomes a roundifh capfule^ having five 



. cells y whichare filled with roundtflo fmall feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: fedion of 



. Linnasus's fifth clafs, entitled Pentandria Monogynia, 

 the flower having five fl:amina and one Ityle. 

 The Species are, . - 



1. Azalea {Vifcofa) foliis margine fcabris, corollis pi- 

 ■ lofo glutinofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 151. Azalea with leaves 



having rough edges, the petals of the flower hairy and 

 glutinous. Cifl:us Virginiana flore & odore pericly- 

 . meni. Pluk. Phyt. tab. 161. f. 4. ^ 



2. Azalea {Nudiflora) foliis ovatis corollis pilofis fl:ami- 

 nibus longifiimis. Lin, Sp. Plant. 150. Jzalea with 

 oval leaves^ hairy flowers ^ and the longefl ftamina. Cif- 

 tus Virginiana periclymeni flore ampliori minus odo- 



rato. Pluk. Mant. 49. - 



There are three or four other fpecies of this genus, 

 two of which grow naturally upon the Alps, chiefly 

 on bogs ; thefc are low plants,, which have little 

 beauty, and very difficult to keep in gardens. The 

 others grow one in the eafl:, near Pontus, and the 

 other in India ; but as neither of thefe are in the Eog- 

 lifli gardens, I fliaUnot enumerate them,: 1 





The firft of thefe here mentioned, is a low fhrub, 

 rifing with feveral flender fl:ems near four feet high. 

 The leaves come out in clufl:ers at the ends of the 

 flioots, without order : they are fpear-fliaped, but nar- 

 row at their bafe 5 their edges are fet with very fhort 

 teeth, which are rough. The flowers come out in 

 clufters between the leaves, at the extremity of the 

 branches, which are white, with a mixture of dirty 

 yellow on their outfide : they have a tube an inch 

 long, and at the top are pretty deeply cut into live 

 fegments ; the two upper are reflexed, the two fide 

 ones are bent inward, and the lower one Is turned 

 downward. There are five flender flramina, which 

 are a little longer than the petals of the flower, fup- 

 porting oblong Saffron-coloured fummits. The fl:y!e 

 is much longer than the fl:amina, and' crowned by an 

 obtufe fl;igma. Thefe flowers have much the appear- 

 ance of thofe of the Honeyfuckle, and are as agreea- 



bly fcented. 



July 



are not fucceeded by feeds in England. 

 The fecond fort grows taller than the firfl:, and in its 

 native country frequently rifes to the height of fifteen 

 feet, but in Endand is never more than half that 

 height. - This fends out feveral fl:ems from the root, 

 which are garniflied with oblong fmooth leaves, placed 

 alternately, having foot-fl:alks. The flower-fl:alks 

 arife from the divifion oJF the branches, which are lono- 

 and naked, fupporting a clufEer of red flowers, which 

 are tubulous, fwelling at their bafe like thofe of the 

 Hyacinth, and contraded at their neck> they arc di- 

 vided at the top into five equal fegments, which fpread 



The five ftamina and the fl:yle are m.uch 



This flowers 



open 



longer than the petals, and ftand ereft. 

 about the fame time as the former, but is not fo well 

 fcented. . - 



Thefe plants grow naturally in Ihade, and upon moift 

 ground in mofl: parts of North America, from whence 

 many of the plants have been fent of late vears to 

 England, and feveral of them have produced their 

 beautiful flowers in many curiolis gardens. 

 They mufl: have a moifl; foil and a ftiady fituation, 

 otherwife they will not thrive. They can only be 

 , propagated by flioots from their roots, and laying 

 down their branches, for they do not produce feeds 

 here; and if good feeds could be obtained, they 

 would be difficult to raife, and a long time before 

 they would flower. But when they are in a proper 

 fituation, their roots extend, and put out fl:ioots, 

 which may be taken off^ with roots, and tranfplant- 

 ed. When any of them are laid down, it Ihould 

 be only the young flioots of the fame year, for the 

 old^^branches will not put out roots. The beft time 

 for this is at Michaelmas, and if they are covered 

 with fome old tan, to keep out tHe frofl:, it will be 

 of great ufe to them. The autumn is alfo the befl: 

 time to remove the plants, but the ground about their 

 roots fliould be covered in winter to keep out the 

 frofl: ; and if this is every year praftifed to the old 

 plants, it will preferve them in vigour, and caufe them 

 to flower well. 



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