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Some authors are of opinion, that the nitrous iiiks 

 fccm to be afligned by nature chiefly for the growth 



of plants. 



Others differ from them in opinion, and fay, that 

 ^hen Nitre is contiguous to plants, it rather deltroys 

 than nourifhes them 5 but yet they allow, that Nitre 



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one of the perfons who were fcnt by the late king of 

 Denmark, to make difcoveries in the Eaft. 

 It is an annual plant, with trailing ftalks which lie prof- 

 trate on the ground, and divide hto feveral branches; 

 which are garnifhcd with oval, fpear-fiiaped, fmootli 

 leaves, having fiiort foot-ftalks ; thefe come out fin- 



and other falts do certainly loofcn the earth, and fepa- I gle at fome joints, by pairs at others, and frequently 

 rate the concreted parts of it, and by that means, fi: three or four at the upper joints : the flowers are pro- 



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and difpofe them to be affumed by water, and carried 

 up into the feed or plant, for its formation and aug- 



' ment. 



. It is obfervable, how all falts are wrought upon by 



moifture, how eafily they liquidate and run with it ; 



and when thefe are drawn off, and have deferted tlie 

 * -'lumps v/herewith they were incorporated, thofe mufl- 

 •moulder immediately, and fall afunder of courfe. 

 ^ The hardeft ftone, if it has any fait mixed with the 

 < -farid of which it confifts, upon being expofed to a hu- 

 - mid air, in a fhort time dilTolves and crumbles all to 

 ^ .pieces ; and much more will clodded earth and clay, 

 i which is not of near fo compaft and folid a conftitu- 



' tion as ftone is. ' ' . ^ - '..''' 



* If the earth be never {o good and fit for the produc- 



>' tionof veo-etables, little will come of it, unkfs the 

 ' parts of it be feparated and loofe ; and for this reafon, 



■ is the ground digged, ploughed, and harrowed, and 

 the clods broken ; and it is this way that Nitre, fea- 



■ fait, and other falts, promote vegetation. • - ' * 

 A certain gentleman has given a relation. That he 



- dwelling in the country near a petrc-houfe, where 

 fuch faltpetre as is brought from abroad, is boiled and 

 refined, to maTce gunpowder, this being fo near as to 



' communicate the fteam of the Nitre to the greateft 



•' part of the orchard and garden \' and, though fome 



"\ were of opinion tfiat it injure J his "trees and plants, 



'. '■• yet he found, that it had a contrary influence upon 



i> his orchard, &c. in that it never failed to bring him 



^ L -:J a plentiful crop of fruit every year, although thofe 



'\ ^- about him had but very little, or fcarce any ; notwith- 



^ ftanding his orchard, &c. v/as not lefs expofed to 



- bfio-htino- winds by its natural fituation, than the other 

 Orchards ii^. the fame town. From whence he judged, 



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that the nitrous vapour which mixes with the air that 

 furrounds his orchard, prevents blights, and is noxious 

 * to the caterpillars. 



■■-The Lord Bacon, in his Natural Hiftory, commends 



the ufe of Nitre, for the prefervation of health in hu- 



> man bodies •, and many fkilful hufbandmen have 



•■given it no lefs a charafter^for the prefervation of 



* vegetables, if its quantity be rightly proportioned. 



That the atmofphcre does abound with faline parti- 

 ■ ties, is moft certain •, for being filled continually with 

 . ' effluvia from earth and fea, it muft needs have from, 

 r ' both a great quantity of faline corpufcles ; and the fait [ by many ignorant perfons, fince^we find, that the beft 



duced fingly from the forks of the branches, upon 

 pretty long foot-ftalks ; they are ftaaped like thofe 

 of the Winter Cherry, having ftiort tubes, which 

 fpread open above, and are of a fine blue colour ; 

 thefe are fucceeded by four naked feeds, fitting in the 

 empalement of the flower: This plant flowers in Ju- 

 ly, and the feeds ripen in the beginning of September. 

 The feeds of this plant muft be fown on a hot-bed in 

 March, and when the plants come up and are fit to 

 remove, they fhould be each tranlplanted into a fmall 

 pot filled with light earth, and plunged into a frelh 

 hot-bed to bring the plants forward ,"'otherwife they 

 - will not ripen their feeds in this country ; but when 

 their flowers open in July, they ftiould have a large 

 fhare of air admitted to them when the weather 

 is warm, to prevent their flowers falling away without 

 producing feeds : with this management the plants 

 will continue flowering till the early froft deftroys 

 them, and their flowers will produce ripe feeds the 

 'beginning of September. 



NOLI ME TANGERE. See Impatiens. 

 NONSUCH, or FLOWER of BRISTOL. 



:bee Lychnis. :" . 



NORTHERN ASPECT is the leaft favoura- 

 ble of any in England, ^shaving very little benefit 

 from the fun, even in the height of fummer, there- 



"■^'^fbre can be of little ufe, whatever may have been ad- 

 variced to the contrary ; for although many forts of 

 * fruit-trees will thrive arid produce fruit in fuch" pbfi- 

 tions, yet fuch fruit can be of little worth, fince they 

 are deprived of the kindly warmth of the fun tocor- 

 re6t their crude juices, and render them well tafted 

 and wholfome ; therefore it is to little purpofe to 

 plant fruit-trees againft fuch walls, except it be thofe 

 which are intended for baking, &c. where the fire 

 will ripen, and render thofe juices wholfome, which, 

 for want of fun, could not beperformed while growing. 

 You may alfo plant Morello Cherries for prefervino- ; 

 and white and red Currants, to come late, after thofe' 

 which are expofed to the fun are gone ^ and if the 

 foil be warm and dry, fome forts of fummer Pears 

 will do tolerably well on fuch an expofure, and will 



■"continue longer m eating, than if they were more ex- 



• jpofed tb'theTim. 'Bift you ftiould by no means plant 

 Winter Pears in fucK'an ^foedti as hath been nraVT^iTM 



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*' will be of difierent kinds, according to tlie variety 

 -: of thofe lalts from whence they are derived: V;"^^ 



NOLAN A. Roycm Lin. Gen. Plant. 193.^-; 



fouth walls, in fome bad years, are barely warm 

 ^ enougn t6 ripen fnofe fruits. '"- - 



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The Characters are, 

 fbe empale men f of I be flower is of one leaf turbinated at 

 tbehafey divided into five 'acute heart-fbaped fegments^ 

 'and is permanent ^he flonsHF is hell-fhaped^ plaited-, 

 fpread open^ and is twice as large as the empalement ; it 

 katb five awl'fhaped ere£l ftamina^ which are terminated 



Duke Cherries planted againft: walls fexpofed to the 

 North, will ripen much later in the feafon, arid, if the 

 foil is warm, they Will be well flavoured, fo that here- . 

 by this fruit may be continued a month later than is^ 



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fourcetls^ in which the feeds are inclofed. 



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■•' This genus of plants is ranged in the 'firft feftion of 

 ■ Linnasus's fifth clafs, which incfucJes the -^'^'^^^ ^-" 

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^OLANA {Profirata.) Lin. Sp. 202. Dec. t. tab. 2. 

 Trailing Nolana. . Atropa foliis geminatis, cal^cibts 

 pdlycarpis, caule humifufa. GOuan. Monfp. 82, Defdly 

 Nightjhade'with two leaves at each joint ^flower -cups with 

 feveral feeds y and a trailing ft alk, 



\ This plant grows naturally in Egypt, from whence I 

 received the feeds, which were fent bv Mr. F6rfchaL 



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NURSERY, or Nurfery-garden, is a piece of land 

 • fet apart for the raifing and propagating all forts of 

 trees and plants to fupply the garden, and other plan- 

 tations.' Of this fort there are a great number in the 

 different' parts of this kingdforn, but particularly in the 

 neighbourhood of London, which are occupied by 

 the gardeners, whofe bufinefs it is to raife trees, plants, 

 and flowers for fale; and in rnariy of thefe there is at 

 preient a rnucR greater variety of trees and plants cul- 

 tivated, than can be found in any other part of Europe. 

 Tn France, their Nurferies^ (which are but few, when 

 compared with thofe in England) are chiefly confined 

 to the propagation of fruit-trees, from whence they 

 have the appellation of Pepinier. For there h fcarce 

 a'ft'y of thofe gardens, where a perfon can bg fupplicd 



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