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In the country where this flirub grows naturally, it 

 lends cut plenty of fuckers from the roots, fo that 

 they form thickets which are almoft impaflable ; but 

 here they have not as yet produced any fuckers, nor 

 do tlic Iccds come to maturity, fo that the plants are 

 not very common in England ^ for the feeds which are 

 fent from America lie in the ground a whole year be- 

 fore the plants appear, and afterward they make very 

 flow pro2;refs, which has difcouraged moft people from 

 attempting to raife the plants in that method. The 

 only p^rfon who has fucceeded well in the raifing of 

 thcfe, is Mr. James Gordon of Mile End, who has a 

 <rood number of the plants which have arifen from 



lecds. 



The fccqnd fort is a native of the fame country with 

 the firft, where it rifes from three to fix feet high, 

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Itiff leaves about two inches long and half an inch 



broad, of a lucid green, placed without order upon the 

 branches^ {landing upon (lender foot-ftalks ^ the flow- 

 ers c-row in loofe bunches on the fide of the branches. 



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of its great aufrerity, which will often take the fkin dif 

 frorn^ the mouths and throats of thofe people who-cat 



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ividing into fmall ligneous branches which are very 

 lofe, covered with a dark gray bark, garnifhed with 



upon Hender foot-ftalks •, they are of one petal, having 

 afliort tube, but fpread open at the top, where they 

 arc cut into five ano;les : the flowers are of a bright red 



This plant is propagated by feeds, for thou^rh tliere 

 are often fuckers fcnt forth from the old plants, ye 

 they come out from betv/cen the leaves, and are fc 

 long, flender, 'and ill-fliapen, that if they are j^lanted 

 they feldcm make regular plants. Thefe icf^d.s fnould 

 be ibwn early in the fpring, in fmall pots fiUed with 

 light rich earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tan- 

 ners bark. When the plants are ftrong enougli to 

 tranfplant, they Ihould be carefully taken up and each 

 ■ planted into a feparate pot filled with light rich earth, 

 and plunged intS the hot-bed again, obferving to re- 

 frefli them frequently with water, until they have taken 

 new root, after v/hich time they fliould have air and 

 water in proportion to the warmth of the feafon. In 

 this bed the plants may remain till "Michaelmas, at 

 which time they fliould be removed into the ftove^ 

 and plunged into the bark-bed, where they fliould be 

 treated in the fame manner as the Ananas. 

 Thefe plants will hot produce their fruit in England 

 until they are three or four years old, fo they fliould 

 be fiflfted into larger pots, as the plants advance ia 

 tlieir growth j for if their roots arc tgo much confined, 

 they' will make but little progrefs. They fhould alfo 

 be placed at Vpretty great dulance from each other. 



for their leaves will be three or four ft 



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colour when they firft: open, bin afterward fade to a 

 'blufli or Peach bloom colour •, thefe are fucceeded by 

 roundifh comprefied feed-veflTels crowned by the per- 

 manent fl;yie, divided into five cells, which are filled 

 with fmall roundifli feeds. This fl:irub flowers great 

 part of fummer in its native country, but is not yet 

 fo-well naturalized "to this country as to do the like. 

 The leaves of this elegant plant are fuppofed to have 

 a noxious quality, deitroying fheep and oxen when 

 they feed upon them, yet the deer eat them with 



impunity. 



Both thefe forts multiply by their creeping roots in 



their native foil, and at Whitton, where they have flood 



unremoved aconfiderable time, they put out fuckers I upon a ftalk about three feet high, and having ge- 



in pretty great plenty -, and as thefe plants which come nerally a tuft of leaves growing on the top, fo has, at 



from fuckers, are much more likely to produce others \ firfl: fight, the appearance of a Pine Apple ; but, when 



than thofe which are raifed from feeds, and will flower clofer viewed, they v/ill be found to be a cluiler of 



turning downward occupy a large fpace. 



The leaves of this plant are llrongly armicd with 



crooked fpines, which renders it very troublefomc to 



fhift or handle the plants; for the fpines catch hokt 



of whatever approaches them by their crooked form, 



being fome bent one way, and others the rev^erfe, ia 



that they catch both ways, and tear the flcin or clothes 



of the perfons who handle them, where there is not' 



the gfeatefl: care taken of them. 



The fruit of this plant is produced in clufliers, gfowing^ 



niuch fooncr, fo the plants fliould not be removed, 

 but encouraged to fpread their roots and fend out 



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KARAT AS, the Penguin or wild Ananas. ,- ^' " 

 The Characters are, 

 // halb a tubuloUs bell-Jfjaped flower^ which is divided into 

 ' three parts ^at the mouthy from whoje empalement where 

 the germen isfttuated arifes the point al^ fixed like a natlin 

 • the hinder part of the ficwer^ attended by fix port ftaniina ; 

 '^ the germen afterward becomes aflefhy atmojt conical fruity 



oblong fruit, each being about the fize of a finger. 



A KATKIN is an aggregate of fummits, hanging 

 down in form of a rope, or Cat's tail, as in the Sallow, 

 Hazel, Birch, &rc. and is called in Latin iulus. 



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'// hath a fingle fpatha {or jheath) of onejeaf^ the flower 

 bath one petals with a long fiender tube ^ divided into fix 

 ' part's above -, three of them are alternately fpear-fijaped and 



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equals the dfher are ovatj yknd at ioUom cut into two feg- 

 which is divided $y membranes inW thfe'e cellsy thai are I mentswUcharevertically ^^^^ It hath but oneJla-'\ 



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men. which is membranaceous. ovaL andindented^terminatei 



• "^ \ ^^ There is ,but one fort of this plant at present known ] '/" ^ a linear fummty faftened to it all the^ lengthy fcarcely ^ . 

 '■ ^ '':''^r';^1n England, which is,' -ry. :-■;-■— ^^ -y^- ^ | ■ :■ emerging out of the tube of the petal '\lt hath a found ' 



* Karatas {Penguin) foliis ciliato IpThofis rnucrOhatis, ra- 

 ■ -^ cemo terfninali. THe wild Ananas 'or Penguin'. ■ - V ' 

 , JFatherPlumidrhas rii^de a great niiflake in.the figure 

 "' and defcription of the charafters of this piant, and the 

 Caraguata •, for he has joined the ffower of the Cara- 

 "^ guata to the fruit ofthe Karatas," a;rid vice versa ; this 

 ' Kas led many perfons into miflakes, i*ho haVe joined 

 ^' -the BroffieKa and Ananit^fo this; ftiaking them all of 

 ••^ the fame genus, whereas by their charadters tliev 



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This plant is very common in the Weft-Indids, where 



' the juice of its fruit is often put into punch, being of 



a fliarp acid flavour." There iV alfo a wine made of 



'. the juice of this fruit which is very ftrong, but it will 



not keep good very long, fo is only for prefent ufe. 



This wine is very intoxicating and heats the blood, 



therefore fliould be drank very fparingly. ^ 



In England this plant is preferved as a curiofity, for 



the fruit feldoni arrives to any degVce'of perfeftion in 



this country, though it has often produced fruit in 



the gardens, which fometimes has ripened pretty wellj 



^ but if it were to ripen as^ thoroughly here as in its 



' native country, it would be fittle valued on account 



' germen fupp'orting a flyle 'the length of the hilf^'^crowned ■ 

 ''*3y an obtufe Jiigmd\ the germen afterward' becomes d 

 * roundip three- cor^ur ed capfitlc with three cells ^ filled with 



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,*This genus of plants is ranged in the firfi: feftion'olE* ' 



Linna^us's firfl: clafs, intitled Moriahdria Monogyriiay 

 ." whicK includes thofe plants whofe flowers have one- 



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1. K/EMPFERiA (Galanga) foliis ovatis feflilibus. Flor. 

 --" Zeyl. 8. Ki^mpferia with oval leavirfitting clofe to the 



root. "Katsjuli Kelengu, Hort. Mai. and" the Wanhom. 

 .. Kasmpf. Amcen. ooi. Galamale. '^' - :■ -^ - _ 



2. K^MPFERIA (Rotunda) foliis lanceolatis petiolatis. 

 Flor. Zeyl. 9. K^empferja with fpearfhaped leaves having 

 foot-ftalks. Zedoaria i-btunda. C. B. P. Round Zedca-ry. 

 Thefe plants are both natives of the Eafl:-Indies, where 

 their roots' are greatly ufed in medicine as fudorific 

 arid carminative. The firft fort hath mAich the fcent of 



, green Ginger, when frefli taken out of the ground j the 

 ^ roots are divided into leveral flefliy tubers, which are 

 fometimes jointed, and grow about four or five inches ' .■ 



longi the leaves are oval, about four' inches long. ;, 



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