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rifcs in a few years to a great height, if they have 



■ proper fupport. I have leen feme of thefe plants, 

 whofe branches were trained up more than forty feet 



• high. -The ftalks will grow almoft as large as a 

 man's arm, and are covert:d with apurplifh bark, but 

 do not become very woody. The fhoots from^thcfe 

 ftalks are often twelve or fifteen feet long in one fum- 

 mer; they are very flender, fo muft be fupported, 

 otherwife they will hang to the ground, intermix with 



' each other, and appear very unfightly. .. Thefe are 



' garni(hed at each joint with one hand-ihaped leaf, 



compofed of five fmooth entire lobes, the middle one, 



• which is the longed, being almoll four inches long, 

 and one broad in the middle, the other are gradually 



" fhorter, and the two outer lobes are frequently divid- 

 ' ed on their outer fide into two fmaller lobes or feg- 

 rnents. Their foot-ftalks are near t>yo^ inches long, 

 ' and have two Tmall leaves or ears embracing the ftalks 

 at their bafe, iand from the fame point comes out a 

 long clafper, which twifts round the neighbouring 

 plants, whereby the ftalks are fupported. ;, The Apw- 



• crs come out at the fame joint as the leaves ; 'thefe 



• have foot-ftalks almoft' three inches. Jong./. TJie 

 -flowers have an outer cover, compofed of three con- 

 cave oval leaves, of a paler green than the leaves of 



'" the plant, which are little more than half the length 

 of the empalement, which is compofed of five oblong 



' blunt leaves, of a very pale green ; within thefe are 

 five petals, nearly of the fame lliape and fize with the 



, empalement, ftanding alternately between them.^jln 



■ 'the center of the'flower Vrifcs a thick club-like co- 

 " lumn about an inch long, on the top pf^which fits an 



oval pjermen, from whofe bafe fpreads out five awl- 

 ' fhaped horizontal ftamma, which are terminated by 



■ oblong broad fummits faftened in the middle of the 



■ ftamina, hariging downward j thefe may be moved 



• round without feparating from the ftamina, and their 

 *funder furface IS charged with yellow farina j on the 



■ fide of the germen arife three flender purplifli ftyles 

 "near an inch long, Spreading from each other, ^termi- 

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 the fhorteft, inclines toward the column the outer, 



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which is near half the length of the petals, Ipread 

 open flat upon'them ; thefe rays are compofed of a 

 great number of thread-like filaments, of a purple co- 

 lour at bottom, but are blue on the outfide.^.. The 

 ' flowers have a faint fcent, and continue but one day ; 

 ^ after they fade,^ the germen oh the top of the co- 

 - lumn fwells to a large oval 'fruit about the fize and 

 ih^e of the Mogul Plum, and when ripe is of the 

 ■^ fame pale yellow colour, inclofing a fwectifh difagree- 

 ^ able pulp, in whicH'are lodged oblong feeJs.^ Jfhis 

 yplant begins to flower early m July, and there* Ts "a 

 ^- fucce^ion of flowers daily, till the froft in autumh puts 

 a ftop to them.' 



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" It may be propagated by feeds, which fliould belown 

 in the fame manner as thofe of the firft fort? and the 



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■ plants treated in the fame way till the following fpring, 

 'when they fhould be turned out of the pots, and 

 .^planted againft a good afpeftcd wall, where they may 

 •'have height Tor their flioots^ to extend, otherwife they 

 will hang about and entangle with each other, fo 

 "' make but an indifferent appearance : but where build- 

 ;ings are to be covered, this plant is very proper for 

 y the piirpofe? ' After they have'talceh good roorin 

 *^' their new quarters, the only care they will require, is 

 ;' to train their fhoots up againft the wall, as they ex- 

 tend m length, to prevent their hanging about, and 

 It tnc winter proves levere, the furrace of the ground 

 about their roots fhould be covered with mulch to 

 Keep the froft from penetrating of the ground i and if 

 ' the italks and branches are covered with mats^ Peas- 

 haulm, ftraw, or any fuch light covering, ft will 

 proteft them in'wmter againft fevere frofts ; but this 

 covering muft be , taken off in mild weather, otherwife 

 ; it will caufe the branches to grow mouldy, which will 

 be more injurious to them than tKe cold. ' In the 

 " foring the plants lh6uld be trimmed, when all the 

 fmall weak flioots ftioujd be.entirely cut ofl; and the 



•; ftrong ones ftiortened to about four or five feet long. 



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which will caufe them to put out ftrong fhoots for 

 flowering the following year. 



This plant is alfo propagated by laying down the 

 .branches, which in one year will be well rooted, fo 

 may be taken off from the old plants, and tranlplanc- 

 , ed, vf here they are defigned to remain. The cut- 

 -, tings of this will alfo take root, if they are planted 

 . ii^ a loamy foil not too ftiff", in the fpring, before they 

 begin to fhoot. If thefe are covered widi bell or 

 hand-glafles to exclude the air, they will fucceed much 

 better than when they are otherwife treated ; but when 

 the cuttings put out fhoots, the air fhould be admit- 

 ted to them, otherwife they will draw . up weak and 

 fpoil, and they muft be afterwards treated as the layers. 

 Thofe plants which are propagated by layers or cut- 

 tings, do not produce fruit lb plentifully as the feed- 

 ling plants i and I have found the plants which have 

 been propagated two or three times, either by layers 

 or cuttings, feldom produce fruit, which is common 

 to many other plants^ j ^ 



If in very fevere winters the ftalks of thefe plants, are 

 killed to the ground, the roots often put out hew 

 . ftalks the following fummef, therefore they fhould not 

 . be difturbed j and where there is mulch laid on the 



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 : of their being killed, although all the ftalks fliould be 

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.s.^l^ere is, a variety of this -, the lobes of the leaves are 



. much narrower, and are divided almoft to the bottom. 



. The flowers come laterin thefummcr ; the petals of 



.the flowers are narrower, and of * a purer white, but I 



believe it is only a feminal variation of the other, fo 



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i/The third fort grows natu rally fn Virginia, and alfo 



ID Jamaica ; this hath 



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a= perennial creeping _ i:pot, 

 fending up many weak ftalks about; three or four feet 

 high, which are garnifhed ^vith leaves Ihapecl very 

 like thofe of Ivy, and^are almoft as large, but' of a 

 pale green and very thin confiftence. The flowers 

 come out from the wings of the ftalk upon flender 

 foot-ftalks an inch and a half long, and at their bale 

 arife very flender tendrils, which clafp round any 

 neighbouring fupport. The flowers are of a dirty 

 yellow colour, and not larger than a fix-pence when 

 expanded, fo make no great appearance. This may 

 be propagated by its creeping roots, which may be 

 parted in April, and planted where.thej are to remain. 

 This fort wilHive m a warm border,"if treated in the 

 \ fanie way as is direiSedfor the firft fort. Some of thefe 



flants lived many years in the Lhellea (jarden in a 

 order to a fouth-weft afpedt, but in the year 1740 

 they were killed by the froft. . ^^ "'^ .# 



'^The fourth fort grows naturally in Jamaica ; this hath 

 a perennial root^from which arife feveral flender 

 * ftalks four or five feet high, which have joints four 

 or five inches afunder ; at each of thefe come out one 

 leaf, a tendril, and a flower. 'The leaves .nave three 

 lobes ; the middle one is three inches lorig, and almoft 

 an inch broad in the middle ; the tw^^ are 



about two inches long, an(f three quarters of an inch 

 '. broad, of a light green colour, and thin. The flowers 

 -- are fmaller than thofe of the laft mentioned, and are 

 ^ of agreenifti colour; thefe are fucceeded by oval 

 fruit, about the fize of fmall Olives, .which turn pur- 



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 The fifth fort grows naturally in moft of the Weft- 

 India iflands ; this rifes with a weak ftalk to the height 



t of ^ twenty feet. As the ftalks grow old, they have 



" a tliiclc. f^^^^ like" that of the Cork-tree, 



;, which cracks and fplits. 'The fmaller branches arc 



covered with a fmooth bark,,^^ and garnifhed with 



-' fmooth leaves at each joint, fitting\ipon very fliort 



c foot-ftalks i thefe have three lobes, the middle one 



being much longer IKan thofe on the fides, fo that 



the whole leaf has the form of the point of thofe hal- 



berts ufed by the yeomen of the guards. The flow- 



. ers are fmjll, of a greenifh yellow colour, and are 



fuccee3ed"by fmall oval fruit of a dark purple co- 



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