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thefe are near three inches long, and one and a quarter 

 broad, having a ftrong vein running longitudinally 

 through the middle, and fome fmall tranfverfe veins 

 from that to the borders ; they are of a light green, 

 and their foot-Oalks change to a reddifh colour next 

 the branches ^ the ends of the branches are terminated 

 by loofe fpikes of fpherical heads, about the fize of a 

 marble, each of which are compofed of many fmall 

 flowers, which are funnel-ftiaped, of a whitilh yellow 

 colour, faftened to an axis which ftands in the middle; 

 thefe appear in July, and, in warm feafons, are fuc- 

 ceeded by feeds, which have fometimes ripened in 

 England. 



Thefe plants are propagated chiefly by feeds (though 



there has been feme railed from cuttings and layers ;) 



thefe Ihould be fown in pots, for the greater conve- 



niency of removing them either into a Ihady fituation, 



or where they may have Ihelter. If the feeds can be 



'procured fo early as to fow them before Chrillmas, 



the plants will come up the following fummcr j but 



if they are fown in the fpring, they generally remain 



a year in the ground •, therefore, in fuch cafe, the 



pots fliould be placed in the Hiade thar fummer, and 



in the autumn following removed under a common 



frame to Ihelter them from froft, and the fpring 



hard, will hurt them, it is proper to have a few 1 following the plants will come up. 



of them to fupply the table, in cafe the common fort J I'he Jfirll year, when the plants come up, it will be 



(hould be deftroyed by frolls. ^ 



•■ Tlie roots of thefe Onions, if planted out at fix or 



fpring, as being milder than thofe Onions which had 

 ftood° through "the winter; thefe are propagated by 

 ■ /. parting their roots like the former, and are alfo very 



hardy,''and will be lit for ufe early in the fpring. 



' . The Welch Onions are only propagated for fpring 



'^ ufe alfo ; thefe never make any bulb, and are there- 



" . fore onl)' fit to be ufed green for fallads, &:c. ■ They 



.are fown about the end of July, in beds of about 



"three feet and a half wide, leaving alleys of two feet 



'broad to go between the beds to clean them, and in a 



:- fortnight's time they will appear above ground, when 



' . they muft be carefully cleared from weeds; towards the 



middle of Odober their blades will die away, fo that 



A the whole fpot will feem to be naked, which hath led 



. .;: many people to dig up the ground again, fuppofing 



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V nuary, and from that time grow very vigorouQy, re- 



March will be 



, . for young Onions, and are, in the markets, more 



^.., valued than any other fort at that feafon; for they 



: v,.-^re extremely green and fine, though they are much 



; :*.\itronger than the common Onion in tafte, approaching 



nearer to Garlick, which hath occafioned their being 



lefs efteemed for the table : but as no winter, how- 



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' feeds in autumn, but it will be in fmall quantities 

 the firft year -, therefore the fame^ roots fhould remain 

 unremoved, which the fecond and third year will 

 produce many ftems, and afford a good fupply of 

 feeds; thefe roots will abide many years good, but 

 fhould be tranfplanted and parted every fecond or 

 third year, which will caufe them to produce ftrong 



CEPHALANTHUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 105. Pla- 

 tanocephalus. VailL Acad. R. Scien. 1722. Button 



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■■ The Characters are, 



• // Mtb a number of fmall flowers^ which are colle5l€d into 

 ^ a fpherical head ; thefe have no common empalement^ hut 



,\ encb f articular flower hath a funnel fhaped empalement^ 

 ■ , divided into four parts at the top ; the flower is funnel- 



^ fhaped^ of one petals divided at the top into four parts^ 



I 'i inclofing four ftamina^ which are inferted in the petals and 

 \ are flsorter than the tuhe^ being terminated by globular 

 V fummits. The germen is Jituated under the flower, fup- 



flyle which is longer than the petals and is 



• j. crowned by a globular ftigma ; the germen afterward 

 comes a globular hairy capfule^ incloftng one or two ob 

 *■-% . angular feeds \ thefe are joined to an axisy and fon 

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V*^^ gynia, the flower having fout ftamina and but one 



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neceffary to thade.them irt hot dry weather, while 

 they are young, at which time they are often de- 

 ftroyed by being too much expofed ; nor ftiould the 

 watering be neglected ; for as thefe plants naturally 

 grow on moill ground, fo when they are not duly 

 watered in dry weather, the young plants will languilh 

 and decay. 



The next autumn, when the leaves begin to drop, 

 the young plants may be tranfplanted into nurfery- 

 beds, which fliould be a little defended from the cold 

 winds ; and, if the foil is moift, they will fucceed 

 much better than in dry ground ; but where it hap- 

 pens otherwife, it will be abfolutely necefl^ary to water 

 them in dry weather, otherwife there will be great 

 danger of the plants dying in the middle of fummer, 

 which has been the cafe in many gardens where thefe 

 plants were raifed. 



In thefe nurfery-beds the plants may remain a year 

 or two (according to the progrefs they may have 

 made, or the dillance they were planted ;) then they 

 may be taken up in 05tober, and tranfplanted where 

 they are to remain for good. Although I have men- 

 tioned but one feafon for tranfplanting them, yet. 

 this may alfo be performed in the fpring, efpecially 

 if the ground is moift into which they are removed, 

 or that the plants are duly watered, if the fpring 

 fliould prove dry, otherwife there will be more 

 hazard of tlieir growing when removed at this 

 feafon. 



Thefe plants make a pretty variety among other 

 hardy trees and flirubs, being extreme hardy in re- 

 fpeft to cold ; but they delight in a moift light foil, 

 where they will grow very faft, and their leaves will 



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Cephalanthus {Occidentalis) foliis oppofitis ternifque. I be larger than in dryland. 



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" ternis foliis caulem ambientibus, floribus ochroleucis. 

 Pluk. Aim. 336. tab. 77. 

 This flirub grows naturally in North America, from 



. whence the feeds are annually fent .to Europe, and of 

 late years great numbers of the plants have been raifed 

 in the gardens of the curious \ but there are no very 



. large plants in the Englifli gardens ; the largeft I have 

 fcen are in the curious gardens of his grace the Duke 

 of Argyle, at Whitton, near Hounflow, where they 

 thrive better than in almoft any other place where 

 they have been planted, fo that in a moift foil they 

 will do the beft. 



1 his feldom rifes higher than fix or feven feet in this 

 country. ^ The branches come out by pairs, oppofite 

 at each joint; the leaves alfo ftand oppofite, fome- 

 times by pairs, and at other times there are three 



M. Lin. Gen. Plant. /;i8. Moufe 



Moufe 



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The CfiARACTERS are, 



ledempalement, which fp 

 open ; the flower hath five obtufe bifid petals^ whid 

 as large as the empakment. It hath ten fiender fta 

 fhorter than the petals, terminated by roundifh ft 



five fly It 



fituated an oval germen, from which arifi 



(fe ftigma ; the empakment afterward becomes an oval, 

 cylindrical^ or globular capfule with one cell, opening at 

 the top, containing many roundiflo feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fourth feftion 

 of Linn^eus's tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Pen- 

 tagynia, the 



flower having ten ftamina and five 



ftyles. 



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