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;The fortieth fort is an annual plant, and is only 



-propagated by feeds, which lliould be fown upon a 



gentle hot-bed in the fpring, to bring the plants for- 



Avard; otherwife if the feafon (liould not prove very 



' warm, the plants will not pcrfeft their feeds in this 



countr)'. When the plants are come up, and grown 



-.flrong enough torempve, they fliould be each planted 



the wind from difplacing of the root before they arc 



fixed in the new earth. 



The compoft in which I have always found thefc 

 plants thrive belt (where tlicre has not been a conve- 

 niency of getting fome good kitchen-garden earth) 

 was frefh hazel loam from a palture, mixed with a 

 fourth or fifth part of rotten dung ; if the earth is I 

 inclinable to bind, then a mixture of rotten tan is 

 preferable to dung ; but if it is light and warm, then 

 a mixture of neat's-dung is bed : this compoil fliould 

 •be nibced three or four months before it is ufed, and 

 Ihould be turned over three or four times, that the 

 parts may be well mixed and incorporated ; but where 

 fi quantity of good kitchen-garden earth can be had, 

 .which has been well worked, and is clean from the 

 roots of bad weeds, there will need no compofition, 

 for in that they will thrive full as well as in any mix- 

 ture which can be made for them, cfpecially if the 

 earth has lain in a heap for fome time, and has been 

 two or three times turned over to break the clods, 

 and make it fine : thefe plants fhould not be planted 

 in very rich earth, for that will caufe them to grow 

 iVery luxuriant, but they will not flower fo well as in 

 .^poorer foil. 



The thirty-third fort hath herbaceous ftalks, fo is beft 

 propagated by feeds, which the plants produce m 

 great plenty, but the cuttings of this will take root as 

 freely as either of the other, but, the feedling plants 

 are preferable to thofe propagated by cuttings; and 

 where the feeds of this and many other of the African 

 forts are permitted to fcatter, there will be a fupply 

 of young plants come up the fpring following, pro- 

 vided the feeds are not buried too deep in the ground. 

 The thirty-fourth fort may be propagated by feeds, 

 or from, heads _ flipped off from the fl:iort flefliy ftalk -, 

 » thefe heads fhould have their lower leaves fl;ripped off, 

 -that the fl:alk which is to be planted may be clear of 

 leaves; then they may be planted Angle into a fmall 

 pot, or if the heads are fmall, there may be two or 

 . three put into one fmall pot; then they may be plunged 

 ^into a very moderate hot-bed, which will forward 

 their putting out roots, and if they are fliaded from 

 the fun and gently refrefhed with water, they will 

 take root in a month or five weeks, when they mufl: 

 be hardened gradually, and removed into the open air, 

 ., where they may remain till autumn, when they muft 

 be removed into flicker for the winter feafon. 

 The thirty-fifth, thirty-fixth, thirty-feventh, thirty- 

 .: eighth and thirty-ninth forts, are generally propagated 

 . by parting of their roots ; the befl; time for doing 

 ■ this, is in Auguft, that the, young roots may be ella- 

 . bliflied before the cold comes on. ' Every tuber of 

 thefe, roots will grow, prpvlded they have a bud or 

 . .. eye to them ; they may be planted in the fame fort of* 

 -: >; earth as was before direded, and if the pots are 

 - ;PJ"Ogcd into an old tan-)be(f, ^under a good frame in' 

 winter, the plants will thrive*better than in'a green- 

 '.;. ^oufe; the glaffes of itl;^../i*a.mc.may be drawn off 

 everyday in mild weather,^wherqby the plants will 

 enjoy the tree air > and iiin hard froft the glafTes are 

 . 1 well covered to prevent the cold penetrating to the 

 plants,' it is all the Ihelter they will require ; but in 

 this fituation they fhould have but little wet in'win- 

 . i:ter, therefore the glafles fhould be kept over them in 

 it heavy rains^to. keep them dry ; but in mild weather 

 ' ^5 glafles may. be .raifed . on the upper fide to ad- 

 .*^jttit the frefli air to the plants, which will give them 

 . :» greater flope to carry off the wet. With this ma- 

 nagement the roots will thrive and flower very flrong 



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taken new root; then they mull be gradually hardened 

 to bear the open air, into which they fliould be re- 

 moved in June; and when the plants have filled tiie 

 fmall pots with their roots, they ihould be fliaken out, 

 and the ball of earth prefervcd to their roots, and put 

 into pots a fize larger, in wiiich tlicy will flower and 

 ripen feeds, and foon after the plants will decay. 

 The forty-fecond fort is a!fo propagated by feeds, 

 which may be either fown upon a^noderate hot-bed 

 in the fpring, or upon a bed of light earth in the open 

 air, where the plants will come up very well, though 

 they will not be fo forward as thofe on the hot-bed. 

 Thofe which are fown in the open air will require no 

 other care but to keep them clean from weeds, and 

 thin the plants where they afe too clofe. Thefe plants 

 will flower in July and Auguft, and if the autumn 

 proves favourable, the feeds will ripen in September 5, 

 but if thefe fliould fail, tlloie which were raifed on the 

 hot-bed will come earlier to flower, {o there will be 

 no danger of their perfecting feeds; and thefe plants, 

 if they are in pots, rnay be prcferved through th 

 winter, if they are plunged into an old tan-bed under 

 a frame, and treated in the fame manner as the tu- 

 berous-rooted forts before mentioned. 





The fhrubby forts muft be looked over frequently 

 during the winter, while they are in the greenyhoufe, 

 to pick off ail decayed leaves from thei'n, which, if 

 left on, will not only render the plants unficrhtly, but 

 by their falling off, they will occafion litter among 

 the other plants ; and if they are fuffered to rot in the 

 houfe, they will occafion a foul, nafty, damp air, 

 which will be very prejudicial to all the plants; there- 

 fore to avoid this, they fhould be conftantly picked 

 off every week; and during the fummer feafon, they 

 will require to bepicked every fortnight or three 

 weeks to keep them clean from dead leaves ; ^ for as < 

 the branches advance, and new leaves are 'produced 

 on their top, the under ones as coaflantly decay; and 

 if left on till they drop off, will render the plants very 

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G E R M A N D E R. See Teucrium. 

 G E R O P O GO N. GoatVbeard. 

 The Characters are, 

 The . empakment Is ftngle^ compofed i>f many het-Jhaped 



ofed of fe 



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'dJJjorterjhan ihe.empalement^ and are of 



five fegments at the top. ' Xhefe h 



'hfive jhort Jiamna^ terminated by cylindrical fi 



Jlender fyU 



or tutor two 



like Jligma which are recurved y the feeds 



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into a ieparate fmall pot, and plunged into a moderate | turn for their culture, 

 ■ : Jioc-bed again,, pbferving to fhade them till they have |. '- . . ' 



This genus of plants Js ranged in the firfl feftion or 



', Lihriaeus's nirieteentK clafs, intitled Syngeneifia Poly- 



'gamia !^qualis,'the florets having five conne£ted fta* 



mina, and are fruitful. • . -, 



.The Species are, ' ' -' - .' 



t. Geropocon (G&^ra;;?) folijs gla^ris.^^^ '^}^9* 



Goaf s-heard with frncGth leaves. Tragopogon gramineo 

 folio glabrum, flore dilute incarnato. Rail Sup. 149* 



\. Geropogon [Hirfuttim) foliis pilofis. Lin. Sp* i lop. 

 Goafs-beard with hairy leaves, I'ragopogon "gramineo 

 folio, fuave rubente flore. Col. Ecphr. i. p. 232. 

 Xhe firft fort grows naturally in Italy ; this hath an 



. ereft ftalk more , than a toot high, garniflied with 



. frnooth, Grafs-like, long leaves; the ftalk branches up- 

 ward into two or three divifions, each beino; terminated 

 by one fielh-coloured flower, compofed of leveral 

 florets. . . 



The fecond fort grows naturally in Italy and Sicily. , 



, This rifes with an ered ftalk a foot high, garniflied 

 with hairy narrow leaves, and feldom divides into 

 branches, but is terminated by one flower compofed 

 of four or five hermaphrodite florets, which are fuc- 

 ceeded by fo many bearded feeds. 

 Thefe plants require the fame treatment as the Tra- 

 GOPOGON, to wliich article the reader is defired to 



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