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^hi gennen afterward becomes a long taper pod ''Joith 

 h'jdling joints^ in each cf which is lodged one oblong feed. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fcftion of 

 Linnseus's tenth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have ten ftamina and one ftyle. 

 We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 Parkinsonia {Aculeata.) Parkinfonia. 'Hort. ClifF. 57. 

 Parkinfonia aculcata, foliis minutis, uni coft^e adnexis. 

 Plum. Nov. Gen. 25. Tricklj Parkinfonia with^ very 

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This plant was difcovered by Father Plumier in Ame- 

 rica, who gave it thip name in honour of Mr. John 

 Parkinfon, who publiflicd an Univerfal Hiftory of 

 Plants in Englifh, in the year 1640. 

 It is very common in the Spanifli Weft-Indies, buto 

 late years it has been introduced into the Englifli fct- 

 • tlementsin America, for the beauty and fwectnefs of 

 Its flowers. This, in the countries where it grows na- 

 ' rurally, rifes to be a tree of twenty feet high or more, 

 " and bears long flender bunches of yellow flowers, 

 which hang down after the fame manner as the La- 

 . bvyrnum. Thefc flowers have a mofl. agreeable fweet 

 icent, fo as to perfume the air to a confiderable dif- 

 tance round about the trees *, for which reafon, the 

 inhabitants of the Wefl:-Indies plant them near their 

 habitations. And though this plant lias nol been in- 

 troduced many years into the Englifli fettlements, yet 

 it is now become lb common in all the iflands, that 

 ■ 'but few houfes are without fome of the trees near it ; 

 for it produces flowers and feeds in plenty in about 

 T .two' years from feed, fo that it may foon be made 

 ^' common in all hot countries ; but in Europe it re- 

 . quires a fl:ove, ot^erwife it will hot live tliroiigH the 

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' :This plant is jpropagated by feeds, which fliould be 



-^ \'* fown in fmall pots filled with light frefh earth early in 



5 ■■'.thefpring, and thepots'muft be plunged into a hot- 



^ '-'^bed of tanners bark, where, in about three weeks 'or 



''^- "a month's time, the plants will come up, when they 



: Ihould be kept clear from weeds, and frequently re- 



- ' frefhed with a little water. In a little time thefe 



■ ...^ , plants will befit to tranfplant, which Ihould be done 



■ ■-.•■very carefully, fo as not to injure their roots. They 



\ muft be each planted into a feparate halfpenny pot 



\ .filled with light frefli earth, and then plunged into 



/'the hot-bed again, obfcrving to flir up the tan -'and 



"^ if it hath loft its heat, there fliould be fome frefl:i tan 



added to renew it again. 



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feveral oblong feeds. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the fourth fcftion 

 of Einn£Eus*s fifth cLUs,' which includes the plants 

 whofc flpv;ers have five ilimina and four fl:yles. , 

 The Speciks are, . . . 



1 , Parnassia {Palujlris.) Parnaffus Grafs, ParnafTia pa- 

 ]ufi:ris & vulgaris. Inll. R. H. Common Marfh Grafs of 

 Parnaffus. . ' --. . 



2. Parnassia {Pleno flore) vulgaris flore -^Xcno. Com- 

 mon Grafs of Parnajjus, with a double flozver. 



The former of thcfe^forts grows wild in moifl: mea- 

 - dows in feveral parts of England, but particularly in 

 the north; but it doth not grow in the neio-hbour- 

 hood of London, any nearer than on the other fide of 

 Watford, in the low meadows by Caflluberry," where 

 it is in pretty great plenty. ' " ■ -. . \ 



Tiie other fort is an accidental variety of the former, 

 which has been difcovered \yild, and tranfplanted into 

 gardens. This is but rarely to be found, being' in 

 very few gardens at prefent. ,,..... 



Thefe plants may be taken up fromitie natural places 



of their growth, with balls of earth to their roots, 



and planted into pots filled with pretty fl:rong, frcih, 



. undunged earth, and placed in a Ihady fituationj 



\, where, if they are conftantly watered in dry weather, 



' tliey will thrive very well, and flower every fummer ; 



but if the plants are planted in the full ground,' it 



,; Ihould be in a very moifl: fliady border, otherwife 



^ they wiir not live'; ""and rliefe Ihould be as duly \va- 



^ tered as thof? in the pots ^ in, dry weather, to make 



them produce ftrone;' flowers.' 



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'*"root ; after which time they fhbuld Have frpffi air *^d- 



.. \\ mitted to them every day, in proportion to the warmth 



; of the feafon. With this management the plants will 



"^ grow fo fafl:, as to fill the pots witH their roots by the 



^-. beginning of July, at >hich time they fhoiild be 



.^-Ifliifted into pots a Jittle larger than the forrner, 



.^.and plunged again into the bark-bed to forward 



...J their taking new root; after which'it^will be the beft 



"way to inure the"plants by degrees to "bear 'the 'open 



n. air, that they maybe hardened before v^^inter; for 



if they are kept too warm m winter, the plants will 



./decay before the next ipnnp;. — 1 he only method by 



^- which I have fucceeded in keeping this plant tlir5?ugh 



the winter,' was by hardening them in July and Au- 



utt to bear the open air ; and m September 1 placra 



/-thern on "ffielves in the dry 'ftove, at tlie'grVatefl: dif- 



from'tKe fire," lb that they were in ^ very tem- 

 I peratQ warmth ; arid there they retained their leaves 

 ^^ all the winter, and continued in health, when thofe 

 \ vhich were placed in a warmer lituation, as alio thole 



^ \m the grcen-houle, were entirely deltroyed, but tliefc \ 

 feldomilirvIved,the fecopd winter. " f.;>.J/ ^Xi'^f 



., They may be propagated by parting their roots, 



^ -which fliould be done in Mafcli, " before they put c: at' 



new leaves'; but therpots fhould not b? diyjded too 



fmall, for that ViU prevent their flowering the follow- 



ing fummer. Thefe roots ihould always be planted in 



. pretty fl:r6ng ffelli eaVth, for they will not thrive, ma 



■ light rich foil. In the fpring they mufl: be conftantly 



\ watered, if the feafon fliould prove dry, othervvifc 



' they will not flower; nor fhould they be parted of- 



: ,tener than every third year, to have them flirong. 



• I'hefe plants flower in July, and their feeds are ripe 

 the latter end or Auguir., %.; . . , , 



"It Is called Parnaflus, from Mount Parnafliis, pn 



' wlilch It was fuppofcd. to grow ; and from the cattle 



feeding on it, it was called a Grafs^, though the plant 



.' has no refemblance to any of the Grafs kind, but is 



• jnore like the Ranunculus in nower,- and the leaves 



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PARSNEP/ See Pastinaca. 

 P A R T E R R E is a level divifion of ground, .which^ 

 ' for the' moft parr, faces the fouth and beft front of 



a houie, and is generally lurmihed with greens, v 

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.:There/,are ieveral. forts of Partjsrf es, as plain. G^^fs - 

 ; with borders, and Parterres of eml^roiSery, &c. ^-^t.:: 



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any other countries, by reafon of tTie' excellency^ of 

 - our turf, and that .decency and unaffeAed fimplicity 

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 ■ petats, which have five heart ffjaped concave nectartums^ 

 . and five ftamind tefmTndtcd h depreffcd fummitsf^wTtfo a 

 large oval germ en paving no'Jlyh\ but four "ohtufe perma- 

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 If tHeTrbn't of the hqufe is on^ hundred fec.t lon^, the - 

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