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.,, weeks time the plants will be fit to remove, ^hen 

 you muft prepare another hot-bed, covered with good 

 .,* rich light earth, about four inches thick; which 

 fliould1)e made a few days, that k may have a proper 

 temperature of heat ; then raife up the young plants 

 ' with your finger, fo as not to break off the tender 

 %: roots, and prick them into the new hot-bed about 

 . " four inches diftance every way, giving them a gentle 

 I. .watering to fettle the earth to their roofs: but in 



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 rarely rife again, or at leaft fo as to recover their 

 former ftrength in a long time, but very often rot in 

 -: the Items, and die quite away. ^ / ^ ■ 



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 Clr: fermentation of the dung, which condenfes to wet 

 t. againft the glaffes,- and this dropping upon the 

 plants, very frequently deftroys them ; fo the glafles 

 ihould be frequently turned in the day-time, whenever 

 the weather will permit 5 but if the weather happens 

 to. prove bad, that you cannot turn your glafles, it 

 will be of great fervice to your plants, to wipe off all 

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Let them at firft be fet near the flicker of a hed-^s 

 for two or three days, where they may be fcrcen.^d 

 from the violence of the fun, and ilron^r winds, to 

 v/hich they muft be inured by degrees : thefr plants, 

 when grown to a good ftature, perfpire very freely^ 

 and muft be every day refreflied wich water, if the 

 weather proves hot and dry ■, otherwife they v/i'll ftunt, 

 and never produce their plumes fo fine as they would 

 do if taken care of. 



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 

 wonderful large fine heads, and are the greateft or- 

 nament to a good garden for upwards of two months: 

 by this method, 1 have had plants five or fix feet 

 high, with crefts near a foot in breadth -, and I am 

 perfuaded, if the kind is good, (and there is no v/ant 

 of dung, or conveniencies) in a kindly feafon, they 

 will grow much larger. 



By the middle or latter end of September, the Ama- 

 ranths will have perfefted their feeds, fo that you 

 muft make choice of the largeft, m'oft beautiful, and 

 j.eaft branching plants of each kind for feed ; w^hich 

 you fliould remove under Ihelter, (efpecia]ly if the 

 weather proves wet, or the nights frofty) that the 



When I feeds may be perfeftly ripened •, in the choice thereof, 



your plants are firmly rooted, and begin to 'grow, j be fure never to take any feeds from fide branches, 



you muft obferve to give them air every day (rriore I nor from the neck of the plume, but fuch only as are 



or lefs, as the weather is cold or hot) to prevent produced in the middle thereof, which in many plants. 



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In aboiit a month or five weeks thefe plants will have 

 grown fo as to meet ; therefore ftiould have another 

 Jiot-bed, which Ihould be of a moderate temper, and 

 covered with the fame rich earth about fix inches 

 thick, in which they fhould be planted (obferving to 

 take them up with as much earth about their roots as 

 pofTible) at kvcn or eight inches diftance every way, 

 giving them fbme water to fettle the earth about 

 their roots ; but be very careful not to water them 

 heavily, fo as to bear down the plants, (as Was be- 

 fore direfted) knd keep them ftiaded in the heat of 

 the day, until they have taken frefli root ; and be 

 fure to refrefli them often (but gently) with water, 

 and give them air in proportion to the heat of the 

 weather, covering the glafl^es with mats every night, 

 left the cold chill your beds, and ftop the growth of 



the plants. 



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 that your 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 ca- 

 vities between each pot filled up with any common 



V earth, to prevent the heat of the bed from evaporat- 



f Jng, and fiUing tlie frame with noxious fteanis ; then, 



.; with a trowel, or fome fuch inftrument, take up 

 your plants (from the former hot-bed) with as much 

 earth as pofilble to the roots, and place each fingle 



' plant in the middle of one of the pots, filling the pot 

 up with the earth before defcribed, and fettle itclofe 

 to the root of the plant with your hands ; water them 



.gently, as before, and ftiade them in the heat of the 



day from the violence of the fun, by covering the 



glafTes with mats; refrefli them often with water, 



and give them a good quantity of air in the day- 

 "time. 



In about three weeks more, thefe plants will have 



grown to a confiderable fize and ftrength, fo that you 



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



and when the air is foft and the fun is clouded, draw 



off the glafles, and expofe them to the open air, and 



repeat this as often as the weather willpermit; which 



will harden them by degrees, to be removed abroad 



into the places where they are to remain the whole 



feafon ; but it is not advifable to fet thefe plants out 



until a week in Julv, cbierving to do it when the air 



IS perfeaiy foft, and if roflible, in a gentle fhower 

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perhaps, may be" but a fmall quantity; bur I do 

 ilTure you, it is thofe only you carl depend upon, to 

 have your kinds good the fucceeding year. 



C EL SI A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 675. The name was 

 given to this plant in honour of Dr. Olaus Cclfius, 

 profeflfor of philofophy and theology in the univerfity 

 of Upfal, in Sweden, by Dn Linnaeus. We have no 

 Englifli name for it. 

 The Characters are, 

 - 1( hath an oltufe permanent empalement^ which is as lon^ 

 as the petals divided at the top into jive parts. The 

 flower is of one leaf with a very Jhort tube^ fpread open 

 above^ and cut into five unequal parts ; the two upper 

 being fmall^ and the under larger. It hath four hairy 

 ■ fiamina^ which incline toward the upper fcgmcnts of the 

 petaly tivo of which are longer than the petals and two 

 are of the fame lengthy terminated by fmall rcundrfh fum- 

 mits. In the center isfituated a roundifh germen^ fupport- 

 ing ajlender Jlyle^ crowned by an obttife ffigma. The 

 germen afterward becomes a rcundifh capfiik ccmpreffed at 

 the top^ fitting upon the empalement^ having two cells 

 which are filled with fmall angular feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feflion 

 of Linnaiius's fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamia 

 Anglofpermia, the flower having two long and two 

 fliort itamina, and the feeds being included in a 

 capfule. 



There is but one Species of this genus at prefcnt 

 known, which is, * 



Celsia [Orientalis) foliis duplicato-pinnatis. Hort. Clifi\ 

 321. Cel/ia with double winged leaves, Verbafcum 

 orientale Sophia folio. Tourn. Cor. 8. Eaftern Mullein 





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This plant grows naturally in Armenia, from whence 

 Dr. Tournefort fcnt the feeds to the royal garden at 

 Paris, w^here they fucceeded, and have been fince 

 communicated to moft parts of Europe. In its na- 

 tural place of growth, this is an annual ; but in 

 England it will rarely ripen its feeds, linlcfs the 

 plants come up in the autumn and live through the 



winter. 



It fends out many oblong leaves, which are finely 



divided almoft to the mid-rib on both iides ; thcie 



lie flat on the fuiface of the ground, and from the 

 center arifes a roundifii herbaceous ftalk near two fc^t 

 high, garniflied the whole length wath leaves o{ the 

 fame fliape, but diminifl:iing in their fize gradually 

 to the top : thefe are placed alternately, and at the 

 foot-ftalk of each come out the flowers, more than 

 half the length of the ftalk, v.'hich are of an iron co- 

 lour on their outfide, but pale ydlov/ within, fpread- 



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