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following fpring: but if thefe fhouldbe killed in the 

 winter, Ibme feeds (hould be fown in the fpring, on 

 a border of light ground, and "when the plants come 

 up they fhould be thinned, and kept clear from weeds ; 

 th^fe will flower in July, and their feeds will ripen in 

 • Augufi. 



The forty-fifth fort grows haturally in Portugal and 

 Spain i this is an annual plant, whofe lower leaves are 

 fieart-fhaped, and divided into three lobes ; the foot- 

 ftalks of the flowers are placed on the fide of the 

 branches, which extend a foot and a half each way •, 

 thefe incline to the ground. The foot-ftalks fuftain 

 many bright red flowers, which'are fucceeded each by 

 five feeds, having pretty long beaks. This flowers 

 and feeds about the fame time as the former fort, and 

 requires the fame culture. 



The forty-fixth fort grows naturally in Egypt. This 

 is an annual plant, having oval fawed leaves of a gray 

 colour *, the branches extend a foot in length, adorned 

 with fmall leaves placed alternate, and toward the end 

 have three or four foot-fl:alks produced from their 

 fides, fuflraining feveral pale blue flowers, which are 

 each fucceeded by five feeds, having long feathery 



beaks. 



This fort is much tenderer than the two former, there- 

 fore if the feeds are fown on a moderate hot-bed in the 

 fpring, and when the weather becomes warm, the 

 plants are carefully tranfplanted on a {heltered border, 

 there will be greater certainty of their perfefting 



feeds. 



The forty-feventh fort grows naturally in Carolina, 



and is an annual plant, greatly refembling our common 

 Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, but is fmaller, and the branches 

 are flaorter; the flowers are very fmall, of a pale blue 

 colour; thefe are fucceeded by five feeds, having fhort 

 ereft beaks, which are black. If the feeds of this fort 

 are permitted to fcatter, the plants will arife without 

 farther care ; and if thinned and kept clean from 

 weeds, will produce flowers and feeds. 

 The forty-eighth fort has fome 'refemblance of the 

 forty-fifth, but the leaves are rnore of an oval hearr- 

 Ihape i the flowers are alfo of a bright red colour. 

 This grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope; the 

 plant is tender, therefore will require the fame treat- 

 ment as the forty-feventh fort, with "which tliey will 

 produce flowers and feeds, after which the plants 

 'decay. 



All the forts of African Crane's-bill may be propa- 

 gated by feeds ; thefe may be fown upon a bed of 

 light earth toward the end of March, where the plants 

 will appear in a month or five weeks after, and by 

 the beginning of June the plants will be fit to remove ; 

 when they fhould be carefully taken up, and each 

 planted into a feparate pot, filled with light kitchen- 

 garden earth, and placed in a Ihady fituation till the 

 plants have taken new root; then they may be removed 

 into a fheltered fituation, and placed among other of 

 the hardier green-houfc plants, where they may remain 

 till autumn, when they muft be removed into the 

 jgreen-houfe, and treated in the fame manner as other 

 hardy' kinds of green-houfe plants. 

 But thofe who are defirous to have their plants large, 

 and flower {bon,fow' the feeds upon a moderate hot- 

 bed in the fpring, on which the plants will cotae up 

 much fooner, and will be fit to remove long before 

 thofe which are fown in the open air ; but when thefe 



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ty-firft and forty-tlfird forrs, are commonly p^.^ 

 g:Ucd by cuttings, v/hich, it planted in a flujy 1 

 der in June or July, v/ill take good root in five or/' 

 weeks, and may then be taken up and phtnte i ' "^ 

 feparate potr., placing them in the Aadetill ihev!^^*' 

 taken new root ; aker which they nvay be removed '^^ 

 to a flickered fituation, and treated in the faaie m-^' 

 ner as the fccdling plants. The twenty-ninth th^" 

 tieth, thirty-firft, and thirty dccond forts, have'mV^ 

 fucculent ftalks than either of rhe other, fo ritp ^ '^ 



from the fun in the heat of the day, and fhould hav 

 but little water ; for thefe are very apt to rot with 

 much moifture, fo they muft only be gently rcfreflicj 

 now and then with water. When thcle are vveliroo^ 

 ed, they may be feparated and planted in pots filled 

 with the fame fort of earth, and placed in the ih:icc 

 till they have taken new root -, then they may be re- 

 moved into a flieltered fituation, where "chey inayre- 

 main till autumn. Thefe four forts ihould be fparino- 

 ly watered at all times, but cfpecially in the winter 

 for they are apt to take a mouldinefs with nioillurt' 

 or in a damp air : they will thrive much better in an 

 airy glafs-cafe than in a green-houfe, becaufeinihc 

 former they will have more fun and air than in xhc 

 latter, fo will not be fo liable to have a mouldinefs or 

 rot. But all the other flirubby forts are proper furni- 

 ture for the green-houfe, where they will only require 

 proteftioii from frofl:, but lliould have a laro-c fhare 

 of free air when the weather is mild j they will. re- 

 quire water every week, in mild weather once or twice 

 but it fliould not be given them in too great plenty, 

 efpecially in frofty weather. Tliefe plants Ihould be 

 hardened in the fpring gradually, and toward the 

 ^middle or latter end of May, they may be taken out 

 of the green-houfe, and at firfl: placed under theflidter 

 of trees, where they may remain a fortnight or dircc 

 ^weeks to harden ; then fliould be removed into afi^ 

 tuation vv^here they may be defended from ftrong 

 winds, and enjoy the morning fun till eleven o'clod, 

 where they will thrive berter than in a warmer 

 fituation. \ 



As thefe flirubby forts grow pretty fafl:, fo they.fooa 

 fill the pots with their roots ; and if they fl-and ion^ 

 unremoved in fummer, they frequently putouctlidr 

 roots through the holes at the bottom of the pots into 

 the ground, and then the plants v/jll grow vigoroufly; 

 but when they are fufi^ercd to grow long in this 

 manner, it will be difficult to remove them, for if 

 their roots are torn off, all the younger branches will 

 decay, and many times the plants are killed. There- 

 fore the pots fiiould be moved once in a fortnight or 

 three weeks, in the fummer months, and the roots 

 which may be then pufliing through the holes in the 

 pots cut off, to prevent their ftriking into the ground. 

 ' Thefe plants will alfo require to be new potted at kiift 

 ■ twice in the fummer-, the firfl: time ftiould be after 

 , they have been three weeks or a montli out of the 

 green-houfe ; the Tecond ihould be towards the end 

 of Auguft, or the beginning of September, tiiat ths 

 plants may have time to eftablifh their new roots be- 

 fore they are removed into the green-houfe. 

 When thefe are new petted, all the roots on the out- 

 fide of the balls of earth fliould be carefully pared 



jplants c6me up, there' mufl: be great care taken not to off, and as much of the old earth drawn away from 



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draw them up weak -, and when thefe are tranfplanted, 

 the pots fbould be plunged into another moderate hot- 

 bed, obferving to fliade them from the fun till they 

 have taken new root; then they muft be gradually 

 inured to bear the open air, into which they fhould be 

 removed the beginning of June, and placed in a fl:iel- 

 tered fituation with other exotic plants. If thefe 

 plants are brought forward in the fpring, moft of 

 the forts will flower the fame fummer, and the plants 

 will be very ftrong before the winter, fo will make a 

 better appearance in the green-houfe. 

 The fiirubby African Geraniums, from' the twenty- 

 firfl: to the thirty-fecond inclufive, and alfo the for- 



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the roots, as can be done with fafety to the plants; 

 then if they require it, they fhould be put into pots 2 

 fize larger than thofe out of which they were taken,^ 

 putting a quantity of frefli earth into the bottom ot 

 the pot ; then place the plants upon that, being care- 

 ful the ball about the roots of the plant is not (o higf^ 

 as the rim of the pot, that fome room may be kft to 

 contain the water which may be given to the plants. 

 Then the cavity all round the ball fhould be filkd up 

 with frefli earth, which fnould be gently preflcd down, 

 and the bottom of the pot beaten upon the gi*^^^''^ ,j 

 to fettle down the earth; then the plant fliotdd bev/eu 



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