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the fame culture as the fifteenth. 



produce flowers, and often wil! 



grefs 



This requires 

 with which it will 



ripen its fruit in England. By feme perfons this is 

 confounded with the fifteenth fort, and pafles for the 

 Granadilla. 



All thefe perennial forts which are natives of the hot 

 parts of America, require a ftove to preferve them 

 here, without which they will not thrive ; for although 

 fome of the" forts will live in the open air during the 

 warm months in fummer, yet they make but little pro- 



nor will the plants produce many flowers, un- 

 lefs the pots in which they are planted are plunged 

 into the tan-bed of the ftove, and their branches are 

 trained againft an efpalier. The beft way to have them 

 . in perfeftion, is to make a border of earth on the back 

 fide of the tan-bed, which may be feparated by planks 

 to prevent the earth from mixing with the tan ; and 

 when the plants are ftrong enough, they fhould be 

 turned out of the pots, and planted in this border; 

 adjoining to which, fhould be a trelliage ereftedto the 

 top of the ftove •, againft this the ftalks of the plants 

 muft be trained, and as they advance they will form a 

 hedge to hide the wall of the ftove, and their leaves 

 continuing green all the year, together with their 

 flowers, which will be plentifully intermixed in fum- 

 mer, will have a very agreeable effect. 

 As there will be only a plank partition between the 

 earth and the tan, fo the earth will be kept warm by 

 the tan-bed, which will be of great fervice to the roots 



This border fhould not be lefs than 



of the plants. 



two feet broad and three deep, 



which is the ufual 



depth of the pit for tan ; fo that where thefe borders 

 are intended, the pits Ihould not be lefs than eight 

 feet and a half, or nine feet and a half broad, that the 

 bark-bed, exclufive of the border, may be fix and a half 

 or feven feet wide. If the border is fenced off with 

 ftrong fhip planks, they will laft fome years, efpecially 

 if they are well painted over with a compofition of 

 melted pitch, brick-duft and oil, which will preferve 

 them found a long time; and the earth fhould be taken 

 out carefully from between the roots of the plants, 

 at leaft once a year, putting in frefh : with this ma- 

 nagement, I have feen thefe plants in great perfec- 



■ tion. But where there has not been this conveniency, I 

 have turned the plants out of the pots, and planted 

 them into the tan-bed when it was half rotten, into 



' which they have rooted exceedingly, and have thriven 



* for two or three years as well as could be defired ; but 

 'rwhen their roots extended to a great diftance in the 



tan-bed, they have been injured by renewing of the 

 = bark; and when it has fermented pretty violently, 

 - the roots have been fcalded, and the plants have been 

 ■^.killed, fo that the other method is more eligible. 

 ^^^ Thefe plants are propagated by feeds, which fhould 

 " be fown upon a good hot-bed in the fpring, and when 

 -tfie plants are fit to remove, they Ihould be each 

 ' '-planted in a fniall pot filled with good kitchen-garden 

 ; iearth, and plunged into a bed of tanners bark,'"ob- 



lerving to fhade them from the fun tjU they have 



* taken new root; then they muft be treated like other 

 tender plants from the fame countries. When they 



'are too higli to remain lih'derthe glaffes of tlie hot- 

 ' bed, they mould be turned out of the pots aridplan ted 

 ^ in the ftove, IH the manner before mentioned. 



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s thefe forts do not often perfect their feeds here, 



o they 'may be propagated by laying down their 



"^^'tJranches, which, ' if done in April, they will put out 



Vfbots by the middle of Aiiguft, when they may be fe- 



: parated from the old plants, and either planted in pots 



'^ to get ftrength, or into the border of the ftove, where 



they are to remain, ; ' " - - 



.^ Some of thefe forts may alfo be propagated by cut- 



thefe fhould be planted into pots about the 

 middle or latter end of March, and plunged into a 

 m9derate hot-bed, obferving to fcreen them from the 

 fun, and refrefti them with water gently, as often as 

 ihe earth may require it ; and in about two months or 



and may then be 



tings 



ten weeks, they will put out roots, 

 treated as the fecdline: plants. 



P A S S I O N.J" LO \\M2 R. See Passielor a. 



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it it a plant whofe root is edible.] Parfncp ; in French 



Panais, 



The Charactkrs are. 



fcarce vifibk ; the umbelis unifc 



It hath an uwbeUated flower ; the principal umbel is cc 

 pofcdofmany [mailer^ and theft are likewife compofe/l} 

 Jeveral rays. They have no involucrum^ and the empale 



'^. The fio%'crs 

 have five fpear-Jhaped incurved petals, ^^^d five hair-lih 

 fiamina^ terminated by roundijh fiimmits. The nrmen ^ 

 fttuated under theflo'xer^ fupporting ^wo reflexed Jlyk, 

 crowned by obtufe ftigmas. The germen aftei-^xard becomr] 

 an elliptical^ plain, coujprejfed fruity dividing into fu'o 

 parts^ having two bordered elliptical feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feftion 

 of Linn^eus's fifth clafs, which contains thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have five ftamina and two ftyles. 

 The Species are. 



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Paf. 



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futis. Parfnep with Jingle^ winged^ hairy leaves, 

 tinaca fylveftris latifolia. C, B. P. 155. Broad-leaved 

 Wild Parfnep, 

 2. Pastinaca {Sativa) fohis fimpliciter pinnatis gla- 

 bris. Parfnep with Jingle winged fntooth leaves, Pafti- 

 naca fativa, latifoha. C. B. P. 155. Broad-leaved Gar- 

 den Parfnep, 



Pastinaca {Opcpanax) foliis decompofuis pinnatis. 



Hort. Cliff. 105. Parfnep with decompounded ivingcd 

 leaves, Paftinaca fylveftris altiflima. Tourn. Inft. 3 m. 

 Talleft wild^ Parfnep, hy Cafpar Bauhin titled^ Panax 

 Coftinum. Pin. 156. 



The firft fort grows naturally on the fide of banks, 

 and on dry land, in many parts of England. This is a 

 biennial plant, the firft year fliooting out leaves which 

 fpread on the furface of the ground ; thefe are fingly 

 winged, and the lobes are irregularly cut ; the leaves 

 arc hairy, t. The followijig year the ftalks rife four 

 or five ka high, which are channelled, hairy, and 

 arnifhed with winged leaves like thofe at the bottom, 



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but fmaller ; the ftalk. branches out toward the top, 

 each branch being terminated by a large umbel of 

 yellow flowers ; thefe are fucceeded by compreffed 

 fruit, having two flat bordered feeds. The plant 

 flowers in June, and the feeds ripen in Auguft. *.? 

 The root and feed of this fort is fometimes ufed in 

 medicine, but it is feldom cultivated in gardens, the 

 markets being fupplied from the fields ; yet the drug- 

 gifts commonly fell the feeds of the garden kind for 

 it, which they may purchafe at an eafy price when k 

 is too old to grow, but then the feeds can have no 

 virtue left. 



The fecond fort hath fmooth leaves, of a light or 

 yellowifh green colour, in which this differs from the 

 former; the ftalks alfo rife higher, and are deeper 

 channelled ; the foot-ftalks of the umbels are much 

 longer, and the flowers are of a deeper yellow colour. 

 Thefe two forts have been thought only varieties, the 

 Garden Parfnep they have fuppofed to differ from the 

 wild only by culture ; but I have cultivated both ma- 

 ny years, and have never found that either of the 

 forts have varied ; the feeds of each having conftanrly 

 produced the fame fort as they Vere taken from, fo 

 that I am certain they are diftindfpecies. 

 This fort is cultivated in kitchen-gardens, the roots 

 of which are large, fweet, and accounted very nou- 

 rifhing. They are propagated by feeds, which Iholild 

 be fown in February or March, in a rich mellow foil, 

 which muft be well dug, that their roots may run 

 dpwnward, the greateft excellency being the length 

 and bignefs of the roots. Thefe may be fov/n alone, 

 or with Carrots, as is praftifed by the kitchen- garden- 

 ers near London ; fome of whom alfo mix Leeks, 

 Onions, and Lettuce, with their Parfneps; but thi: I 

 think very vvrbng, for it is not pofTible, that fo many 

 different Ibrts can thrive well together, except they 

 are allowed a confidcrable diftance; and iffo, it will 

 be equally the fame to fow the different forts feparate. 

 However, Carrots and Parfneps may be fown together 



very well, efpecially where the Carrots are defigned 



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